Linking social capital to organizational growth

Knowledge Management Research and Practice

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 4-14

  Kianto, Aino ^a   Waajakoski, Jussi ^b  

^a LAPPEENRANTA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^b Deacony Foundation Lahti   (Finland)

Author keywords

Collaboration; Intellectual capital; Inter organizational; Networks; Organizational growth; Social capital

Indexed keywords

EID: 77249122188     PISSN: 14778238     EISSN: 14778246     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/kmrp.2009.29     Document Type: Article

References (59)

1. ADLER P and KWON S-W (2000) Social capital: the good, the bad, and the ugly. In Knowledge and Social Capital: Foundations and Applications (LESSER E, Ed), pp 89-118, Butterworth-Heinemann, Boston.
2. ADLER P and KWON S-W (2002) Social capital: prospects for a new concept. Academy of Management Review 27(1), 17-40.
3. AMABILE T (1988) A model of creativity and innovation in organizations. In Research in Organizational Behavior (STAW B and CUMMINGS L, Eds), Vol.10, pp 123-167, JAI Press, Greenwich, CT.
4. BARNEY JB and ZAJAC E (1994) Competitive organizational behavior. Toward an organizationally-based theory of competitive advantage. Strategic Management Journal 15, 5-10.
5. BLANCHARD A and HORAN T (1998) Virtual communities and social capital. Social Science Computer Review 16(3), 293-307.
6. BLOMQVIST K-M (2002) Partnering in the dynamic environment: the role of trust in asymmetric technology partnership formation 2002. Acta Universitatis Lappeenrantaensis 122.
7. BOURDIEU P (1989) Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste. Routledge, London.
8. BROOKING A (1996) Intellectual Capital: Core Assets for the 3rd Millenium Enterprise. Thomson Business Press, London.
9. BROWN J and DUGUID P (1991) Organizational learning and communities of practice. Organization Science 2(1), 40-57.
10. BURT R (1992) Structural Holes. Harvard University Press, Cambridge.
11. BURT R (1997) The contingent value of social capital. Administrative Science Quarterly 42(2), 339-365.
12. CAMPBELL J (1982) Editorial: some remarks from the outgoing editor. Journal of Applied Psychology 67, 691-700.
13. COHEN D and PRUSAK L (2001) In Good Company: How Social Capital Makes Organizations Work. Harvard Business School Press, Boston.
14. COLEMAN J (1988) Social capital in the creation of human capital. American Journal of Sociology 94, 95-120.
15. CONNER K and PRAHALAD C (1996) A resource-based theory of the firm: knowledge versus opportunism. Organization Science 7(5), 477-501.
16. DRUCKER P (1988) The coming of the new organization. Harvard Business Review 66 (January-February), 45-53.
17. EISENHARDT K and MARTIN J (2000) Dynamic capabilities: what are they? Strategic Management Journal 21(10/11), 1105-1121.
18. FUKUYAMA F (1999) The Great Disruption. Profile Books, London.
19. GARGIULO M and BENASSI M (2000) Trapped in your own net? Network cohesion, structural holes, and the adaptation of social capital. Organization Science 11(2), 183-196.
20. GRANOVETTER M (1973) The strength of weak ties. American Journal of Sociology 78, 1360-1380.
21. GRANOVETTER M (1985) Economic action and social structure: the problem of embeddedness. American Journal of Sociology 91, 481-510.
22. HANSEN MT (1999) The search-transfer problem: the role of weak ties in sharing knowledge across organisation subunits. Administrative Science Quarterly 44(1), 82-112.
23. JOHANSON J-E (2001) The balance of corporate social capital. In Social Capital: Global and Local Perspectives (KAJANOJA J and SIMPURA J, Eds), National Research and Development Center for Welfare and Health (STAKES), Helsinki Reports 252.
24. KANTER R (1998) When a thousand flowers bloom: structural, collective and social conditions for innovation in organization. In Research in Organizational Behavior (STAW B and CUMMINGS L, Eds), Vol.10, pp 169-211, Connecticut, JAI Press, Greenwich.
25. KIANTO A (2007) What do we really mean by dynamic intellectual capital? International Journal of Learning and Intellectual Capital 4(4), 342-356.
26. KIANTO A (2008) Development and validation of a survey instrument for measuring organizational renewal capability. International Journal of Technology Management 42(1/2), 69-88.
27. KIANTO A (forthcoming) Enabling innovation in knowledge worker teams. International Journal of Learning and Intellectual Capital.
28. KOGUT B and ZANDER U (1992) Knowledge of the firm, combinative capabilities, and the replication of technology. Organization Science 3(3), 383-397.
29. KRAMER R and TYLER T (Eds), (1996) Trust in Organizations: Frontiers of Theory and Research. Sage, London.
30. LAVE J and WENGER E (1991) Situated Learning: Legitimate Peripheral Participation. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
31. LEANA C and VAN BUREN H (1999) Organizational social capital and employment practices. Academy of Management Review 24(3), 538-555.
32. LEONARD-BARTON D (1995) Wellsprings of Knowledge. Building and Sustaining the Sources of Innovation. Harvard Business School Press, Boston.
33. LESSER E (2000) Leveraging social capital in organizations. In Knowledge and Social Capital: Foundations and Applications (LESSER E, Ed), Butterworth-Heinemann, Boston.
34. LESSER E and PRUSAK L (1999) Communities of practice, social capital and organizational knowledge. Information Systems Review 1(1), 3-9.
35. MCELROY M (2002) Social innovation capital. Journal of Intellectual Capital 3(1), 30-39.
36. MISHRA A (1996) Organizational responses to crisis: the centrality of trust. In Trust in Organizations: Frontiers of Theory and Research (KRAMER R and TYLER T, Eds), pp 261-287, Sage, London.
37. NAHAPIET J and GHOSHAL S (1998) Social capital, intellectual capital, and the organizational advantage. Academy of Management Review 23(2), 242-266.
38. NEMETH C (1997) Managing innovation: when less is more. California Management Review 40(1), 59-74.
39. NONAKA I and TAKEUCHI H (1995) The Knowledge-creating Company. Oxford University Press, New York.
40. PORTES A (1998) Social capital: its origins and applications in modern sociology. Annual Review of Sociology 24, 1-24.
41. PÖYHÖNEN A (2004) Modeling and measuring organizational renewal capability. Doctoral Dissertation, Acta Universitatis Lappeenrantaensis 200, Lappeenranta University of Technology.
42. PRAHALAD C and HAMEL G (1990) The core competence of the corporation. Harvard Business Review 68(3), 79-92.
43. PUTNAM R (1993) The prosperous community: social capital and public life. The American Prospect 4(13), 35-42.
44. PUTNAM R (1995) Bowling alone: America's declining social capital. Journal of Democracy 6(1), 65-78.
45. PUTNAM R (2000) Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community. Simon and Schuster, New York.
46. REAGANS R and ZUCKERMANN E (2001) Networks, diversity, and productivity: the social capital of corporate RandD teams. Organization Science 12(4), 502-517.
47. SCHIUMA G, LERRO A and SANITATE D (2008) The intellectual capital dimensions of Ducati's turnaround: exploring knowledge assets grounding a change management program. International Journal of Innovation Management 12(2), 161-193.
48. SCOTT J (1991) Social Network Analysis. A Handbook. Sage, London.
49. STÅ HLE P, PÖYHÖNEN A and KYLÄHEIKO K (2004) Toward operationalization of dynamic capabilities. In Management of Technology, Internet Economy: Opportunities and Challenges for the Developed and Developing Regions of the World (HOSNI Y, Ed), pp 197-212, Elsevier, Oxford.
50. STEWART T (1997) Intellectual Capital: The New Wealth of Organizations. Doubleday, New York.
51. SVEIBY K (1997) The New Organizational Wealth: Managing and Measuring Knowledge-based Assets. Berret-Koehler, San Francisco.
52. TEECE D, PISANO G and SHUEN A. (1997) Dynamic capabilities and strategic management. Strategic Management Journal 18(7), 509-533.
53. TSAI W (2002) Social structure of 'coopetition' within a multiunit organization: coordination, competition, and intraorganizational knowledge sharing. Organization Science 13(2), 179-190.
54. TSAI W and GHOSHAL S (1998) Social capital and value creation: the role of intrafirm networks. Academy of Management Journal 41(4), 464-476.
55. UZZI B (1997) Social structure and competition in interfirm networks: the paradox of embeddedness. Administrative Science Quarterly 42(1), 35-67.
56. WALKER G, KOGUT B and SHAN W (1997) Social capital, structural holes and the formation of an industry network. Organization Science 8(2), 109-125.
57. WASSERMAN S and FAUST K (1994) Social Network Analysis. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
58. YLI-RENKO H, AUTIO E and SAPIENZA H (2001) Social capital, knowledge acquisition, and knowledge exploitation in young technology-based firms. Strategic Management Journal 22(6/7), 587-613.
59. YLI-RENKO H, AUTIO E and TONTTI V (2002) Social capital, knowledge, and the international growth of technology-based new firms. International Business Review 11(3), 279-304.