▪ Abstract This chapter provides a conceptual framework for integrating the array of variables
defined in diffusion research to explicate their influence on an actor's decision to adopt an …

This article argues that consideration of the strength of ties between communicators can
help reconcile disparate results on the impact of new media on social relations. It is argued …

A growing number of sociologists, political scientists, economists, and organizational
theorists have invoked the concept of social capital in the search for answers to a …

The creation of institutions to meet the challenge of sustainability is an important task
confronting society. Panarchy, a term devised to describe evolving hierarchical systems …

Drawing on a social network perspective of organizational coordination, this paper
investigates the effectiveness of coordination mechanisms on knowledge sharing in …

Explaining how entrepreneurs overcome information asymmetry between themselves and
potential investors to obtain financing is an important issue for entrepreneurship research …

This paper uses Giddens' theory of structuration to develop the conception of
entrepreneurship as an embedded socio-economic process. The qualitative examination of …

Previous research on organizational citizenship behavior indicates that such behavior is
critical for organizational effectiveness, but little theoretical work details how it might …

This paper introduces the concept of knowledge networks to explain why some business
units are able to benefit from knowledge residing in other parts of the company while others …

The question of how initial resource endowments-the stocks of resources that entrepreneurs
contribute to their new ventures at the time of founding-affect organizational life chances is …