▪ Abstract This essay traces the development of the research enterprise, known as the social
resources theory, which formulated and tested a number of propositions concerning the …

This review analyzes how the changing nature of careers can be conceptualized by
examining two major categories of careers research. Specifically, the developmental stage …

This paper combines the concept of weak ties from social network research and the notion of
complex knowledge to explain the role of weak ties in sharing knowledge across …

Winner of the 2000 Max Weber prize, awarded by the Section on Organizations,
Occupations, and Work, of the American Sociological Association, for the best book on …

When seeking to influence firm decision making, what types of influence strategies do
stakeholders have available, and what determines which type the stakeholders choose to …

Organizations enter alliances with each other to access critical re-sources, but they rely on
information from the network of prior alli-ances to determine with whom to cooperate. These …

This paper presents a dynamic, firm‐level study of the role of network resources in
determining alliance formation. Such resources inhere not so much within the firm but reside …

We introduce the construct of organizational social capital and develop a model of its
components and consequences. Organizational social capital is defined as a resource …

What explains differences in firms' abilities to acquire competitive capabilities? In this paper
we propose that a firm's embeddedness in a network of ties is an important source of …

I investigate how social embeddedness affects an organization's acquisition and cost of
financial capital in middle-market banking—a lucrative but understudied financial sector …