Driven by the trend of global economic integration, informationlization and networking, the era of open innovation has arrived. Relationship network has become a new research approach of probing into the enterprises’ innovation, but the results are various. This research draws 114 samples from high-tech enterprises, utilizing structural equation modeling, aiming to explore the relationship amon...

Embeddedness of interfirm relationships in the social structure resulting from prior partnerships engenders order in new tie formation. However, competitive incentives make firms likely to undermine the order that they achieve through the formation of interfirm relationships. We focus empirically on unplanned dissolution of joint ventures between firms competing in the same industry and examine...

We examined the role of social embeddedness in creating positive perceptions of organizational support among managerial and staff employees (n= 72) of a large manufacturing firm. We operationalized social embeddedness as the size, density, and quality of employees’ networks of multiplex, reciprocated exchange relationships with colleagues. After controlling for support from supervisors and uppe...

This empirical study explores the mediation role of organizational embeddedness in relationship between turnover and quality work life. The current investigates how employment variables, such as job satisfaction, commitment, employee intentions, affect perceptions light idea above. aims to provide insight into employees respond a sense duty their employer. also seeks add existing data on confli...

Interorganizational knowledge sharing is the major driving force to maximize the operational benefits across supply chain. Trust is considered as the key to facilitate knowledge sharing. This research proposes shared values and relational embeddedness as antecedents of interorganizational trust. Survey based on managers in major industrial parks in Taiwan confirm that trust is enforced when org...

The fixed income (FI) market is a financial market where debt securities are traded commonly in the form of bonds. Unlike equity securities which are traded on exchanges, the debt securities are primarily traded in over-the-counter (OTC) markets. While the use of electronic trading systems in the fixed income market is growing, the majority of the FI market is still driven by broker-dealer rela...

The idea of ‘community’ represents a central notion in the body of knowledge emerging as part of the Digital Ecosystems (DEs) research and philosophy. This chapter draws from two deliverables produced for the DBE in order to highlight two important characteristics of communities and networks of practice, their knowledge and structural embeddedness. Knowledge embeddedness refers to the context s...

Given growing interest in collective turnover (i.e., employee turnover at unit and organizational levels), the authors propose an organizing framework for its antecedents and consequences and test it using meta-analysis. Based on analysis of 694 effect sizes drawn from 82 studies, results generally support expected relationships across the 6 categories of collective turnover antecedents, with s...

The knowledge mechanisms of call centers have been emphasized by many pervious studies. Yet there is little empirical research that examines the call centers’ influence on firms’ combinative capabilities. To address this gap, this study examines call center enabled organizational mechanisms that contribute to the firms’ combinative capabilities. The study identifies differential effects from th...

Empirical support for the assumption that cliques are major determinants of reputational influence derives largely from the frequent finding that organizations which claimed that their cliques’ connections are influential had an increased likelihood of becoming influential themselves. It is suggested that the strong and consistent connection in cliques is at least partially responsible for the ...