Social Capital and Knowledge Creation: Diminishing Returns of the Number and Strength of Exchange Relationships.

McFadyen, M. Ann; Cannella, Albert A.

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“…This reflects informational redundancy and the management of knowledge flows becoming an issue (McFadyen and Cannella 2004). However, for the region as a whole there may be increasing returns to scale from better connectivity (υ > 1).…”

Section: Endogenous Regional Growth Entrepreneurship and Network Capmentioning

confidence: 99%

Entrepreneurship, innovation and regional growth: a network theory

2015

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Despite the growing acknowledgement that entrepreneurship is an important driver of regional innovation and growth, the role of the networks in these processes has been less formally examined. In order to address this gap, this paper proposes that the relationship between entrepreneurship, innovation and regional growth is governed by a series of network dynamics. Drawing upon aspects of endogenous growth theory and the knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship, it is proposed that the nature of the networks formed by entrepreneurial firms is a key determinant of regional growth differentials. In particular, network capital, in the form of investments in strategic relations to gain access to knowledge, is considered to mediate the relationship between entrepreneurship and innovation-based regional growth. It is suggested that network dynamics should be further incorporated into theories concerning the link between knowledge spillovers, entrepreneurship and regional growth. The paper concludes with a series of theoretical, entrepreneurial and policy implications emerging from the study.

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Section: Endogenous Regional Growth Entrepreneurship and Network Capmentioning

confidence: 99%

Entrepreneurship, innovation and regional growth: a network theory

2015

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“…Granovetter, 1973;Burt, 1992;McEvely et al, 1999 Duración de la relación ¿? No existe evidencia en la literatura  Alta duración y estabilidad Krackhardt, 1992;Uzzi, 1996Uzzi, , 1997 Características cualitativas Granovetter, 1973;1983;Schmidt el at., 1977;Krackhardt, 1992;Uzzi, 1996Uzzi, , 1997McFadyen et al, 2004 vínculos, se hace posible considerar la existencia de una estrecha conexión entre las formas particulares de acceso a recursos, y las formas de dominación y poder que conforman el ámbito de colaboraciones en nanotecnología. Las colaboraciones se aproximan así, a un campo de relaciones en el sentido que lo menciona Bourdieu.…”

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“El poder de recibir al menos lo que doy”: El intercambio de recursos y la jerarquía, en el mundo académico de la nanotecnología

Villanueva-Felez¹,

Martínez-Novo²,

Woolley³

2014

Rev. esp. doc. cient.

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Cómo citar este artículo/Citation: Villanueva-Felez, A.; Martínez-Novo, R.; Woolley, R. (2014). "El poder de recibir al menos lo que doy": El intercambio de recursos y la jerarquía, en el mundo académico de la nanotecnología. Revista Española de Documentación Científica, 37(4): e071. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.3989/redc.2014.4.1144Resumen: En el presente estudio nos aproximamos al ámbito académico de la nanotecnología, donde analizamos la relación que existe entre las posiciones jerárquicas que ocupan los investigadores y el tipo de vínculos sociales y de recursos que intercambian con colaboradores externos. Para ello recurrimos a una perspectiva teórica multidisciplinar de las colaboraciones científicas. Por un lado, al enfoque de las redes y el intercambio de recursos y por el otro, al enfoque sociológico de las relaciones de poder. Como comprobaremos durante nuestro desarrollo, las posiciones jerárquicas de los investigadores son determinantes en la forma que tienen de acceder a los recursos. Ocupar una posición elevada equivale a intercambiar recursos de forma segura y constante. Significa poder recibir siempre al menos los que das, dentro de un campo académico de relaciones de poder, que se reproduce en el tiempo.Palabras clave: Fuerza del vínculo; intercambio de recursos; nanotecnología; jerarquía; habitus. "Being able to receive at least what I give": Resource sharing and hierarchy in the academic world of nanotechnologyAbstract: In this study we investigate the academic field of nanotechnology for analyzing the relation between hierarchical positions occupied by researchers and the type of social ties and resource exchanges that they have with external partners. To do this, we use a theoretical multidisciplinary perspective of scientific collaborations, which combines the approach of networking and resource sharing (Granovetter, 1973, Lin, 2001) with a sociological approach to power relations (Bourdieu, 1997). Following the intuition of Nan Lin (2001), we conclude that the positions of researchers in institutional hierarchies are crucial to the way they access resources. Occupying an elevated position represents a sure and steady exchange of resources. This means always being able to receive at least the equivalent of what you give, in a playing field of academic power relations that is perpetuated over time.

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“…[27]. It is found that people get into the community and form a social network to facilitate the community's ability through the interactions between them [28]. For example, in an online community for a certain brand, consumers get together to share information about this brand.…”

Section: Social Capital and Communitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Winning Consumers through Experience: Competition between Domestic and International Businesses

Dong²

2013

AJIBM

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Retail internationalization has received increasing attention due to its popularity as a business practice. Previous studies have focused on two main factors in the process of retail internationalization: resources and environment. In the resources category, one of the key factors that has been extensively studied is social capital [1]. And in the environment category, one of the most influential environmental factors is cultural distance and its consequence, psychic distance [2]. However, few studies have investigated social capital from the consumers' perspective and considered the influence of psychic distance perceived by international retailers' targeted consumers in the host market on their acceptance. This study aims to investigate how to decrease consumers' psychic distance to obtain initial acceptance from the targeted consumers in the host country. Previous studies have found that perception is shaped through experience [3,4]. Therefore, the main argument in our study is that international businesses should focus on experiential marketing to reduce consumers' psychic distance. In order to understand this argument in the host market competition, experiential marketing strategies in the domestic businesses framework, as well as in the international businesses framework, will be compared.

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Social Capital and Knowledge Creation: Diminishing Returns of the Number and Strength of Exchange Relationships.

Cited by 721 publications

References 26 publications

Entrepreneurship, innovation and regional growth: a network theory

Entrepreneurship, innovation and regional growth: a network theory

“El poder de recibir al menos lo que doy”: El intercambio de recursos y la jerarquía, en el mundo académico de la nanotecnología

Winning Consumers through Experience: Competition between Domestic and International Businesses

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