The term ‘wasta’ stems from the Arabic root for ‘middle’ or ‘medium' and describes the phenomenon of using ‘connections’ to find job, government services or other favors to circumvent bureaucracy or bypass the system as a whole. The effects of ‘wasta’ may be both positive or...

Problemstellung: Von der Organisation der manuellen Arbeit zur Organisation der Wissensarbeit -- Die Produktion von Wissen und die Organisation der Wissensarbeit -- Sozialkapital und Vertrauen -- Das modell über den Zusammenhang von Vertrauen und Sozialkapital -- Abschließende Bemerkung --...

Social embeddedness has been identified as a critical success factor for operations of MNCs in low-income markets. Based on survey data gathered from two subsidiaries of a European MNC, Dina Badry examines relational and structural network aspects with regard to their influence on the success of...

"Guanxi and Business Strategy" elaborates upon a topic of paramount importance to both academic scholars and managers doing business with China: the impact of personal relationships (guanxi) on business affairs. In the Chinese cultural and socio-economic environment, how are the ubiquitous...

This book discusses a core question in many fields of the social sciences, namely how to create, share and adopt new knowledge. It creates an original space for conversation between two lines of research that have developed largely in parallel for a long time: social network theory and the...

Strategic management research is about explaining why some firms continuously outperform others. Recent research has been focusing on the study of alliances as vehicles to boost competitive - or better: collaborative - advantage. Moving beyond the dyadic level, corporate networks have become a...

Industriedynamische Theorieentwicklung -- Qualitativer Strukturwandel von Industrien mit komplexen Produkten -- Netzwerkdynamik -- Wissensentwicklung im F&E-Netzwerk -- Evolution der Luftfahrtindustrie.

The current book on Nework Governance contributes to the literature by offering new perspectives on network goals and performance, inter-organizational learning and trust in alliances, corporate governance issues in cooperatives, governance of cross-border retail networks, contract design and...