Geography, Networks, and Knowledge Flow

By Geoffrey G. Bell, Akbar Zaheer. Organ. Sci., 2007

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Subfields: Management of Technology and Innovation, Strategy and Management

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How knowledge links with universities may foster innovation: The case of a science park (2016, background): “According to the literature on networks, geographic proximity facilitates the exchange of knowledge among firms and between them and other institutions, especially tacit knowledge which is more difficult to share (Bell and Zaheer, 2007; Pouder and John, 1996).”
The strength of long ties and the weakness of strong ties: Knowledge diffusion through supply chain networks (2016, background): “Bell and Zaheer (2007) in fact find that proximity can”
Regions Matter: How Localized Social Capital Affects Innovation and External Knowledge Acquisition (2012, background): “…Marshall (1890) and Jacobs (1969), various studies have analyzed knowledge spillovers and highlighted their localized nature (e.g., Alcácer and Chung 2007, Almeida and Kogut 1999, Bell and Zaheer 2007, Gambardella and Giarratana 2010, Jaffe et al. 1993, Owen-Smith and Powell 2004, Sorenson 2003).”
Clusters for life or life cycles of clusters: in search of the critical factors of clusters' resilience (2014, background): “Some regular structural properties of networks have been defined and furnish interesting perspectives for the renewal of empirics in the economic geography of knowledge networks (Lechner and Dowling 2003; Owen-Smith and Powell 2004; Bell and Zaheer 2007; Vicente, Balland, and Brossard 2011).”
Innovation At and Across Multiple Levels of Analysis (2007, background): “The second paper in this section, "Geography, Net works, and Knowledge Flow," by Bell and Zaheer (2007) studies the effects of geographic proximity on knowl edge flows through three types of networks.”
The Genesis and Dynamics of Organizational Networks (2012, background): “For example, two organizations being nominated together for an institutional board may quite randomly create a tie (Bell and Zaheer 2007). When cumulated, it is conceivable that systematic patterns can be generated in the overall whole network through purely random processes at a very distant level.”
Partner Geographic and Organizational Proximity and the Innovative Performance of Knowledge‐Creating Alliances (2014, neutral): “Geographic distance is a widely studied determinant of innovation (e.g., Maskell and Malmberg, 1999; Bell and Zaheer, 2007; Whittington et al., 2009).”
Inter-Organizational Knowledge Transfer: Current Themes and Future Prospects (2008, background): “…of the inter-organizational relationship, research has suggested that informal, social ties between members of the same organization (Hansen and Lovas, 2004) or different organizations (Bell and Zaheer, 2007) are superior conduits for knowledge flow between geographically distant locations.”
Knowledge, Networks, and Knowledge Networks (2011, background): “These results also imply a bandwidth-structural diversity trade-off: While social cohesion increases information and knowledge flow, it reduces structural holes.”
Substitution or Overlap? The Relations between Geographical and Non-spatial Proximity Dimensions in Collaborative Innovation Projects (2015, background): “The importance of such distanciated collaboration is now frequently emphasized (AMIN andCOHENDET, 2004; BELL and ZAHEER, 2007; FLEMING et al., 2007) and it is suggested that it is inadequate to view interactions at a particular spatial scale as the key determinant of innovativeness (BUNNELL and…”
Adaptation, bridging and firm upgrading: How non-market institutions and MNCs facilitate knowledge recombination in emerging markets (2014, background): “The research just cited above has increasingly shown how firms can access a variety of new knowledge by being tied to mediating organizations and institutions that act as social and knowledge bridges between previously isolated networks (Bell & Zaheer, 2007; Burt, 2000).”
Visualization of interfirm relations in a converging mobile ecosystem (2008, background): “, Tsai and Ghoshal, 1998), leadership (Balkundi and Kilduff, 2006), knowledge transfer (e.g. Tsai, 2001; Reagans and McEvily, 2003; Owen-Smith and Powell, 2004; Bell and Zaheer, 2007), innovation and collaboration (Powell et al.”