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Business is becoming increasingly international. At the same time, governments are intervening more in the conduct of business. A further development is the growing significance of emerging economies, many of which have a tradition of active government involvement with business. Taken together,...
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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 …
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, as self-perceived by that particular individual. To test the hypothesized effects we collect data for a network …
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of brokering for individuals within account management organizations. Using data on a network of 55 individuals in a …
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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 …
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We investigate social circles in intra-firm settings. First, we argue that social circles are inhabited by individuals whose attitudes display fit with the objectives of the social circle rather than more self-centered instrumentalism or calculation. For a test of this hypothesis, we distinguish...
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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 …
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To fully understand the relationship between human resource management and performance in different contexts, we are in need of a synthesis between resource-based theory and new institutionalism. We argue that differences in institutional settings (between for example countries or branches of...
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This article develops an explanatory framework for understanding the growth and development of temporary agency work (TAW) and the related industry. The analysis shows that explanations based on economic logic are helpful in understanding the choice of TAW in general. These explanations,...
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Human resource management (HRM) does matter! Prior empirical research, summarized and classified in the work of Delery and Doty (1996), Guest (1997) and Boselie et al. (2000), suggests significant impact of HRM on the competitive advantage of organizations. The mainstream research on this topic...
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