Social Capital, Networks, and Knowledge Transfer

By Andrew C. Inkpen, Eric W. K. Tsang. 2005

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Subfields: Communication, Sociology and Political Science, Strategy and Management

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The Dark Side of Social Capital (2008, background): “…resource exchange (Tsai and Ghoshal 1998) and product innovation (Rindfleisch and Moorman 2001), turnover rates (Shaw, Duffy, Johnson and Lockhart 2005), knowledge transfer (Inkpen and Tsang 2005; McFadyen and Cannella 2004) and strengthen supplier relations (Adler and Kwon 2002), to mention some.”
Geographical and cognitive proximity effects on innovation performance in SMEs: a way through knowledge acquisition (2011, background): “On the contrary, when goals and cultures are incongruent, misunderstandings and conflicts between parties arise (Inkpen and Tsang 2005).”
FDI spillovers over time in an emerging market: : The roles of entry tenure and barriers to imitation (2014, background): “In IJVs, mutual interests and trust motivate partners to share knowledge, and contracts and/or organizational routines guide how interorganizational learning occurs (e.g., Inkpen & Tsang, 2005; Steensma, Tihanyi, Lyles, & Dhananraj, 2005).”
Network Structure and Innovation: The Leveraging of a Dual Network as a Distinctive Relational Capability (2007, background): “At first, Granovetter (1973: 1361) framed tie strength at the interpersonal level of analysis as a continuous (dependent) variable resulting from a linear combination of a set of (independent) variables expressing multiple dimensions of partners’ behavior in the relationship.”
Cultural Intelligence and Offshore Outsourcing Success: A Framework of Firm-Level Intercultural Capability (2008, background): “For many firms, routines and actions are often shaped and determined by social networks and cliques that do not exist officially in a firm (Inkpen & Tsang, 2005).”
Diversity in Alliance Portfolios and Performance Outcomes: A Meta-Analysis (2017, background): “For example, overall network structure can be configured to facilitate knowledge sharing and interactive learning processes among participating firms (Inkpen & Tsang, 2005).”
The Absence of Cooperation Is Not Necessarily Defection: Structural and Motivational Constraints of Knowledge Transfer in a Social Dilemma Situation (2009, background): “A key premise for knowledge transfer is access to knowledge via network channels (Inkpen and Tsang 2005).”
Intellectual capital and performance within the banking sector of Luxembourg and Belgium (2013, background): “Social capital (Inkpen and Tsang, 2005; Nahapiet and Ghoshal, 1998) encompasses the relationships between individuals and their effects (e.g. career advancement) and can be analyzed at different levels: individual, business unit, organizational, network and society.”
Knowledge Sharing Among Tourists via Social Media: A Comparison Between Facebook and TripAdvisor (2017, background): “It describes the “impersonal configuration of linkages between people or units” (Nahapiet & Ghoshal, 1998, p. 244) and can be analyzed from the perspective of social interaction ties (Inkpen & Tsang, 2005).”
Understanding the impact of relational capital and organizational learning on alliance outcomes (2010, background): “Though prior research has contributed to our understanding of certain important outcomes of knowledge acquisition from alliance partners (Inkpen & Tsang, 2005; Kotabe, Dunlap-Hinkler, Parente, & Mishra, 2007; Lyles & Salk, 1996), there has been scant attention to the study of the diffusion of such…”
Opportunism in Inter-firm Exchanges in Emerging Markets[1] (2006, neutral): “It is widely accepted that cultural dissimilarity plagues social capital development in a unique partnership (Inkpen and Tsang, 2005; Jones, Hesterly, and Borgatti, 1997), which consequently weakens the social exchange-based governance against opportunism and inhibits the important relational…”