Although informal networks are often emphasized as facilitating knowledge transfer, we use network data obtained from a … multi-unit high-tech firm to show that the formal network also significantly contributes to inter-unit knowledge transfer …. Individuals centrally placed in a network are, in addition, more involved in knowledge transfer, especially, the evidence suggests …

Considerable attention has been paid to the network determinants of knowledge sharing. However, most, if not all, of … knowledge sharing. In this paper, the relations between network determinants and actor determinants of knowledge sharing are … empirically tested by means of a network survey in a less knowledge intensive organization, specifically employees of a Dutch …

The purpose of the paper is to assess the current state of network research in China’s business system. Research on … in major journals. The study on the one hand is descriptive by filtering the diverse literature of network research on … (qiyejituan), Overseas Chinese Communities, networks of social relations (guanxi), and Network Capitalism, as an alternative …

, as self-perceived by that particular individual. To test the hypothesized effects we collect data for a network …

of brokering for individuals within account management organizations. Using data on a network of 55 individuals in a … financial account management organization, we test how brokerage of different resource relationships and Simmelian trust …, it harms to broker in ‘delivery’ processes. Furthermore, brokers of Simmelian trust relationships appear to face more …

structural aspects of VCs’ social network, such as the number of connections and the spanning of structural holes, and relational … aspects, such as the diversity of network partners’ attributes, provide VCs with superior access to information about current …

. Implications for research on facial characteristics, trust, and relationship theories are discussed. …

. We hypothesize that perceptions based trust and perceptions of the structural environment individuals operate in affect …, we consider the effects of the amount of trust as well as the change in the amount of trust one individual puts in … another individual. We find that perceptions have more impact on relationship change than "actual" network variables have …

trust can be viable in markets. The emergence and breakdown of trust is modeled in a context of multiple buyers and … suppliers. Agents adapt their trust in a partner, the weight they attach to trust relative to profitability, and their own … trustworthiness, modeled as a threshold of defection. Adaptation occurs on the basis of realized profit. Trust turns out to be viable …