Value of Strong Ties to Disconnected Others: Examining Knowledge Creation in Biomedicine

By M. Ann McFadyen, Matthew Semadeni, Albert A. Cannella. Organ. Sci., 2009

305 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Communication, Statistics and Probability, Strategy and Management

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/a0d32e969e88833f06b86dbdf07df88182f9f0b2

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1. Corey Phelps

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2. Ralph A. Heidl
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4. Rahul C. Basole

Citations in the corpus

• Revitalizing Entrepreneurship: The Search for New Research Opportunities (2011, unknown): “Likewise, McFadyen et al. (2009) show that high average tie strength, in a network rich with bridging ties, benefits knowledge creation.”
• Knowledge, Networks, and Knowledge Networks (2011, background): “The extent to which an innovator’s contacts are disconnected can amplify the quality signal associated with centrality (Nerkar & Paruchuri, 2005).”