Interorganizational relationships connect people affiliated with organizations rather than
corporate actors themselves. The managers and owners of organizations therefore do not …

A central challenge in the study of inter-organizational relationships (IORs) is to explain why
and how organizations connect effectively, work cooperatively, and coordinate their activities …

Research on social capital has stressed the advantages that networks can bring to
managers and other economic actors. The enthusiasm with this 'bright side'of social capital …

This study develops a model of the causal impact of social capital on organizational
performance, with particular attention to specifying the contingencies that transform some …

I present argument and evidence for a structural ecology of social capital that describes how
the value of social capital to an individual is contingent on the number of people doing the …

Accumulating empirical evidence on American managers shows that social-capital effects
on performance are a function of the information and control benefits of bridging structural …

The importance and usefulness of social capital as a concept in the study of organizations
have been established by a large body of research. The aim of this paper is to review the …

Corporate social capital is defined as processes of forming and mobilizing social actors'
network connections within and between organizations to gain access to other actors' …

This is a review of argument and evidence on the connection between social networks and
social capital. My summary points are three:(1) Research and theory will better cumulate …

Recently, there has been a shift in the way management scholars view the firm, from
traditional models that are based on ideas of opportunism and market failure to newer …