Recent work on competitiveness has emphasized the importance of business networking for
innovativeness. Until recently, insights into the dynamics of this relationship have been …

With established markets becoming saturated, multinational corporations (MNCs) have
turned increasingly to emerging markets (EMs) in the developing world. Such EM strategies …

This article outlines the mechanism by which brokerage provides social capital. Opinion and
behavior are more homogeneous within than between groups, so people connected across …

Sex, smoking, and social stratification are three very different social phenomena. And yet,
argues sociologist Randall Collins, they and much else in our social lives are driven by a …

The paper is concerned with spatial clustering of economic activity and its relation to the
spatiality of knowledge creation in interactive learning processes. It questions the view that …

Research has demonstrated that relationships are critical to knowledge creation and
transfer, yet findings have been mixed regarding the importance of relational and structural …

Three perspectives on the efficacy of social capital have been explored in the public health
literature. A 'social support'perspective argues that informal networks are central to objective …

The central argument of network research is that actors are embedded in networks of
interconnected social relationships that offer opportunities for and constraints on behavior …

We contend that two important, nonrelational, features of formal interorganizational networks—
geographic propinquity and organizational form—fundamentally alter the flow of information …

Effective work groups engage in external knowledge sharing—the exchange of information,
know-how, and feedback with customers, organizational experts, and others outside of the …