Building on absorptive capacity and social network research, in this paper I investigate how
individuals inside the organization use external knowledge to generate innovations …

Concurrent increase in the degree of competition and access to information makes it both a
challenge and necessity for firms to develop their ability to sense, seize and exploit …

Dynamic capabilities that enable innovation are crucial to survival and success in today's
highly competitive business environment, because they enable organizational adaptation …

Explanations of knowledge sharing in organizations emphasize either personality variables
such as motivation or network-related structural variables such as centrality. Little empirical …

The current study provides a comprehensive analysis and integration of the literature on the
social network correlates of individual innovation. Reviewing the extant literature, we cluster …

Theoretically, social capital allows entrepreneurial firms to capitalize on learning
advantages of newness and gain access to knowledge as the foundation for improved …

Research Summary: This study introduces the notion of attention allocation in networks to
argue that individuals with different types of network structure produce good ideas via …

Purpose The paper aims to understand how individuals differ in individual absorptive
capacity–their ability to recognize, assimilate, transform and exploit external knowledge …

Previous research has considered researchers' social capital as a determinant of innovation.
However, how individual social capital affects exploitative and exploratory innovations has …

Whereas recent research on organizational innovation suggests that there is an ecology of
roles supporting the innovation process, the majority of network research has concentrated …