Much research has been done on the favourable influence of social environment and social networks on knowledge production. The aim of this article is to design a theoretical framework where both information behaviour (IB) research and social capital (SC) research are integrated. Integrating these areas is seen as an advantage when focusing on the social construction of knowledge, and a model is...

As a part of corporate social responsibility, corporate donation is developing quickly in world. We used data from 290 firms in Yangtze River delta involved in contribution from the year 2004 to 2006. Based on the statistics analysis, the results are as follows: (1) Corporate donation and corporate social capital have a positive correlativity relationship. And corporate donation and corporate c...

Acknowledgement. We thank the management and employees of the three research sites for their cooperation, and An analysis of knowledge spillovers within marketing departments This paper investigates how marketing professionals' intra-departmental social network is associated with their knowledge about customers, competitors, and technology. There are three findings. First, we find no consistent...

As information and communication technologies (ICT) are disseminated into inner-city communities, we tend to assume that broader access will naturally improve the life chances of the local actors that live in these historically underserved neighborhoods. However it is also prudent to challenge this assumption through an examination of the unintentional effects. Using empirical examples from an ...

The social networks literature suggests that ties must be maintained to retain value. In contrast, we show that reconnecting dormant ties—former ties, now out of touch—can be extremely useful. Our research prompted Executive MBA students to consult their dormant contacts about an important work project; outcomes compared favorably to those of their current ties. In addition, reconnecting previo...

in value creation process via finding and exploiting opportunities, entrepreneurs have to create and use social networks to gain access to resources and information and benefit from their social capital. the entrepreneurs’ activities, contacts and performance can influence the social capital of a society. this research reviews the previous research regarding the effect of sex segregation on soc...

today, customer satisfaction as a factor of success of companies has a main importance in the marketing literature. this study has been done to identify factors affecting customer satisfaction with an emphasis on the social capital and the organizational justice. the statistical population of the study includes staff and customers of the commercial banks in tehran, qom and markazi provinces. to...

While work organization and social capital are known to be important factors for offshoring success, there is little empirical evidence on how these aspects evolve in the course of offshoring projects. In the literature, trust has been discussed as a personal disposition to abstain from control in a given situation, and was found to remain surprisingly stable in some cases. By analyzing the rel...

By comparing the network structure of venture capital (VC) firms in Silicon Valley (California) to that of VC firms in Route 128 (Massachusetts), the present study challenges any market-centred theory of regional development. I show that there are advantages in examining the structure of social networks of cooperation within the venture capital industry to understand the level of development of...

This study examines if Facebook, one of the most popular social network sites among college students in the U.S., is related to attitudes and behaviors that enhance individuals’ social capital. Using data from a random web survey of college students across Texas (n = 2, 603), we find positive relationships between intensity of Facebook use and students’ life satisfaction, social trust, civic en...