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Social media technologies have made it feasible for organizations to tap "wisdom of the crowd" beyond their own workforce. Many organizations use online crowd sourcing contests to find solutions for their business problems. In these contests, self-organized virtual teams compete for monetary reward. Motivated by this phenomenon, this research investigates how the social network structure...
This study examines how transformational leadership influences value co-creation in virtual communities through various driving factors. Considering that participants of the same virtual community may experience a context effect resulting from perceived organizational consensus, this study employs a hierarchical linear model (HLM) for verification. This study proposes the following hypothesis: transformational...
We are seeing more and more organizations undertaking activities to engage dispersed populations through IS. Using the knowledge-based view of the organization, this work conceptualizes a theory of Crowd Capital to explain this phenomenon. Crowd Capital is a heterogeneous knowledge resource generated by an organization, through its use of Crowd Capability, which is defined by the structure, content,...
With social software's rapid advancement in the private realm, corporations aim to adopt its technologies and to transfer social software benefits, such as enhanced collaboration and knowledge sharing, to their organizations. However, enterprise social software platforms (ESSPs) often lack substantial attention. While some research into users' motives to adopt social software in the private realm...
Most early work on high-performance work systems (HPWS) examines only the direct relationship between a set of management practices and performance outcomes and seldom investigates the black box between them. On top of the previous individual approach, our study would take a group level approach and investigate how the HPWS may change the performance, especially the innovation performance, through...
Innovation has been studied from several different perspectives. Since innovation has increasingly become a nonlinear, interactive and open activity, social network analysis provides a handy tool to examine this phenomenon. This paper aims to review and synthesize the studies that have examined the phenomenon of innovation from a social network perspective. The current state of the literature, gaps...
A network ethnography methodology was developed to understand and explain the influence of social capital on social network structures. This approach was applied to an inter-organizational technology cooperation group to identify causes of low group participation and engagement and opportunities to increase those factors. A cluster of key actors at the core of the group was found to hold the majority...
By reviewing and summarizing the relevant literatures, the concept of Enterprise's Social Capital is analyzed and defined. Based on Social Capital Theory, the author points that social capital has series important significances and it can enhance the small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), marketing ability, such as advancing marketing innovation, focusing marketing material and human resources,...
Scrum seems to work extremely well as an agile project management approach. An obvious question is why. To answer that question, we carried out a longitudinal case study of a distributed project using Scrum across Denmark and India. In our analysis of case study data we used three selected theoretical frameworks. We conclude that Scrum works so well because it provides communication, social integration,...
The importance of innovation networks is attached by many scholars. We believe that knowledge is the base of innovation networks, learning is an effective tool for knowledge transfer and creation, social capital is the lubricant of the network operating. Knowledge, learning and social capital can build a framework of effective operation for innovation networks
For the purpose of better understanding the sociopsychological factors involved in an individual's coping process towards technochanges, this study examines how the social capital derived from two types of social networks - supportive and informational - influences individual adaptation to the new ICT and its related performance. Based on the social network theory and the coping theory, we establish...
Social interaction has been viewed as an important trigger for knowledge sharing. Previous studies have shown difference in both direction and magnitude of relationships between the determinants and knowledge sharing outcomes. By combing the social capital theory, the theory of reasoned action (TRA), and the technology acceptance model (TAM), the present study proposes an integrated model of knowledge...
Public selection, competitive employment and other competitive selection of cadres are currently the important ways in the reform of our country's cadre and personnel system. The way, level and range of competitive selection is taking continuous explorations and innovations, and covering more and more fields. From the perspective of information communication, the paper considers the social network...
In this paper a model is presented to explore the relationship between organizational learning, social capital, absorptive capacity and enterprise external knowledge integration capability. Through theory analysis, the research framework was built and structural equation model was constructed. Then an empirical research was carried out based on a sample of 330 Chinese enterprises. Research results...
Social capital between supplier-buyer relationships is growing a key factor to affect firm competitive advantage. Study on interorganizational citizenship behavior (ICB) is rare by now. Drawing on OCB and social capital theories, this paper considers the relationship comprehensively among ICB, social capital and buyer performance improvement in supplier-buyer relationships, proposes a new concept...
Social capital broadly refers to the opportunities an individual has by being part of a network of relationships. Recently organizations started deploying internal Enterprise 2.0 platforms and Social Network Sites (SNS) to improve how employees collaborate and work. In this paper we report our analysis of the relationships between social capital and the use of a SNS in a research institute. Data collected...
Firms use network ties to share knowledge across organizational boundary and these collaborative ties between firms can have the positive impacts on the innovation output. Based on the social network perspectives, a firm's social capital can increase the exchange of learning information in supply chains, thus enhancing knowledge creation. This study investigates the influences of relational, cognitive,...
Open innovation, by sponsoring communities of knowledge contributors, has attracted the attention of business firms as it can help generate diverse ideas to innovate new products. This paper draws attention to forking within communities, whereby sub-groups form and pursue agendas different from the overall community's goals. While forking can sometimes be beneficial, it can also harm the community...
Learning online communities enabled a new way of knowledge sharing and innovation. Adopting a social perspective and drawing on social capital theory, this paper investigated how dimensions of members' social capital interacting influenced on knowledge sharing behavior in learning online community. With 478 valid responses from an online survey, the study tested hypotheses about relationships of social...
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