The impact of US company internationalization on top management team advice networks: A tacit knowledge perspective

N Athanassiou, D Nigh - Strategic management journal, 1999 - Wiley Online Library
This study surveys 37 US multinational corporations (MNCs) to examine the effect of
internationalization on one dimension of the top management team's (TMT's) character …

Networks of elite structure and decision making

D Knoke - Sociological methods & research, 1993 - journals.sagepub.com
Recent research on community power structures and national political elites increasingly
incorporates social network concepts, principles, and methodologies. Analysts using this …

Interorganizational collaboration and the locus of innovation: Networks of learning in biotechnology

WW Powell, KW Koput, L Smith-Doerr - Administrative science quarterly, 1996 - JSTOR
We argue in this paper that when the knowledge base of an industry is both complex and
expanding and the sources of expertise are widely dispersed, the locus of innovation will be …

Social capital and value creation: The role of intrafirm networks

W Tsai, S Ghoshal - Academy of management Journal, 1998 - journals.aom.org
Using data collected from multiple respondents in all the business units of a large
multinational electronics company, we examined the relationships both among the …

The search-transfer problem: The role of weak ties in sharing knowledge across organization subunits

MT Hansen - Administrative science quarterly, 1999 - journals.sagepub.com
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 …

Knowledge transfer in intraorganizational networks: Effects of network position and absorptive capacity on business unit innovation and performance

W Tsai - Academy of management journal, 2001 - journals.aom.org
Drawing on a network perspective on organizational learning, I argue that organizational
units can produce more innovations and enjoy better performance if they occupy central …

Network location and learning: The influence of network resources and firm capabilities on alliance formation

R Gulati - Strategic management journal, 1999 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Social networks and the performance of individuals and groups

RT Sparrowe, RC Liden, SJ Wayne… - … of management journal, 2001 - journals.aom.org
A field study involving 190 employees in 38 work groups representing five diverse
organizations provided evidence that social networks, as defined in terms of both positive …

Knowledge networks: Explaining effective knowledge sharing in multiunit companies

MT Hansen - Organization science, 2002 - pubsonline.informs.org
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 …

Strategic schemas, strategic flexibility, and firm performance: The moderating role of industry clockspeed

S Nadkarni, VK Narayanan - Strategic management journal, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
We examine the moderating effect of industry clockspeed on the relationship between
strategic schemas, strategic flexibility and firm performance. We employ two key properties …