Human and Social Capital Explanations for R&amp;amp;D Outcomes

Lee, Soo‐Hoon; Wong, Poh Kam; Chong, Chee-Leong

doi:10.1109/tem.2004.839955

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“…The findings support the claim in other industries [23] that innovation has a positive and significant impact on the performance and growth in the small business sector of the construction industry. We complement the existing study by using a quantitative approach to gain a comprehensive picture of to what extent inter-firm networks support innovation and organizational performance.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 86%

“…A climate of integrated effort and shared values among project participants greatly reduce the fragmentation among team members, and therefore, contribute to the generation and successful development of innovation [16,21,22]. The social capital, such as information, knowledge and resources [23] embedded in such networks are particularly conducive for continuous innovativeness and enhanced SME performance [24,25].…”

Section: A Inter-firm Network and Innovationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Construction Innovation: Inter-firm Network as Antecedent Factor with Effect on Organizational Performance

Lee¹,

Abdul‐Rahman²,

Wang³

2014

Proceedings of the 2014 International Conference on Information, Business and Education Technology

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-The literature on innovation, in the context of small construction firms, is scattered and still remain in its embryonic stage in the development of theories and models. The contribution of interfirm relationships to innovation and organizational performance in these firms are examined here through 159 survey data from Malaysia. We find that prioritising relationship-building strategies is relevant in facilitating innovation implementation and enhanced organizational performance within the small project-based firms. The findings implied that firms with limited resources and capabilities could expect a more significant improvement of their organizational performance, if they encourage a high level of inter-networks and innovation activities.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 86%

Section: A Inter-firm Network and Innovationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Construction Innovation: Inter-firm Network as Antecedent Factor with Effect on Organizational Performance

Lee¹,

Abdul‐Rahman²,

Wang³

2014

Proceedings of the 2014 International Conference on Information, Business and Education Technology

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“…A community or a social network creates the necessary conditions for indirect reciprocity (diffuse exchange). These social relationships are often described in terms of: strength, history, reciprocity, trust, and reliability (Lee, Wong, & Chong, 2005).…”

Section: Sociological Explanations For Knowledge Exchangementioning

confidence: 99%

Competing explanations for knowledge exchange: Technology sharing within the globally dispersed R&D of the multinational enterprise

Ensign

Hébert

2009

The Journal of High Technology Management Research

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This paper explores five competing theories for technological knowledge sharing within the globally dispersed R&D function of the multidivisional, multinational firm. These five broad explanations for why a knowledge transaction occurs are: (1) economic, (2) technological, (3) organizational, (4) geographic, and (5) sociological. In addition to occurrence, likelihood of knowledge exchange success prompted by various explanations is considered. Ultimately the determination of which argument-or combination of arguments-offers the greatest explanatory power for the sharing of intermediate technological knowledge may be answered empirically.

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“…For IT professionals, whose performance depends a lot on the acquisition of technical and organizational knowledge, their social networks are an indispensable informing channel. However, extant research on the impact of social networks on knowledge workers has predominantly focused on R&D staff (e.g., Brookes et al, 2007;Lee et al, 2005). In this study, we examined the relationship between characteristics of IT professionals' social networks and their performance.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…4)." For knowledge workers, social capital established in their social network enables them to be better informed -exposed to valuable job-related information (Brookes, Morton, Grossman, Joesbury, & Varnes, 2007;Lee, Wong, & Chong, 2005).…”

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Social Network Position and Its Relationship to Performance of IT Professionals

Burton¹,

Prybutok

2010

InformingSciJ

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An important informing channel for information technology professionals and other knowledge workers is their social networks. Taking the perspective of the transdisciplinary social capital theory, this study explores the relationship between information technology professionals' social network positions and job performance. We operationalized their network positions as their network constraint, i.e., inability to bridge structural holes in social networks. Social network analysis on data collected from information technology professionals at a large defense company revealed a network woven by 371 people. Logistic regression results showed a significant, inverse relationship between performance and constraint. Therefore, network constraint appears to be an informer/client characteristic that influences his/her ability to take advantage of social networks as an informing channel and to improve performance.

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Human and Social Capital Explanations for R&D Outcomes

Cited by 85 publications

References 64 publications

Construction Innovation: Inter-firm Network as Antecedent Factor with Effect on Organizational Performance

Construction Innovation: Inter-firm Network as Antecedent Factor with Effect on Organizational Performance

Competing explanations for knowledge exchange: Technology sharing within the globally dispersed R&D of the multinational enterprise

Social Network Position and Its Relationship to Performance of IT Professionals

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