Knowledge asymmetry and brokerage: Linking network perception to position in structural holes

Strategic Organization

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 118-143

  Hahl, Oliver ^a   Kacperczyk, Aleksandra “Olenka” ^b   Davis, Jason P ^c  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c INSEAD   (Singapore)

Author keywords

cognitive social structures; design and boundaries; network forms; network structure; network theory; organizational structure; social networks; structural holes

Indexed keywords

EID: 84964792107     PISSN: 14761270     EISSN: 1741315X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1476127015624274     Document Type: Article

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