While a growing body of HRM research has underscored the primacy of people management issues within the broader KM agenda, little progress has been made in understanding the interrelationships between HR practices and intra-organisational knowledge sharing. The aim of this paper is to contribute theoretically to the debate on the emergent role of HR practices in intra-organisational knowledge s...

In recent years, there has been considerable interest in social capital theory in both research and policy arenas. Social capital has been associated with many aspects of improvements in health, environment and development. This paper assesses the theoretical support for a social capital based analysis of environment and health issues with a focus on the water-health nexus in low and middle inc...

This study builds a multi-level research model to investigate how social capital between business units and the headquarters in large-scale organizations influences individual user acceptance of enterprise systems. Drawing on social capital theory and the human agency theory, this study argues that local management of business units plays the role of interpreting signals and messages from the h...

Organizations have capabilities for creating and sharing knowledge (intellectual capital) that give them their distinctive advantage over other institutional arrangements, such as markets (Ghoshal & Nahapiet, 1998). But, what is the basis of a firm’s knowledge development capabilities? At least in part, the answer is that these capabilities stem from the social capital that an organization poss...

extended abstract 1. introduction the concept of social capital is one of the most important concepts during two decades in various fields, especially in the field of organization. social capital means links and communication among members of a network, providing essential social support and energy to facilitate actions through creating norms and mutual trust. some scholars of social and behavi...

IS/business alignment is an ongoing concern for both IS and other senior managers. Although it is often seen as a progression towards alignment, then full integration, of IS plans and business plans there is increasing evidence that the social dimension of alignment, or IS/business integration, is an equally important aspect. So far there has been no overriding theory for the social dimension o...