adaptive capability. The empirical results based on a survey of 438 usable questionnaires from China indicate that “buffering …” and “bridging,” being two kinds of nonmarket strategies, have a positive impact on a firm’s economic performance through … strategy on firm performance in emerging economies such as China, but also explains the indirect relationship between nonmarket …

This paper examines the emergence of firm-celebrity, both an intangible-asset, and a facilitator of competitive … of firm-celebrity, a construct that helps to differentiate one firm from another. The paper adopts a historical …, relationally framed approach, which features a firm-celebrity case study. …

three-wave panel study of 531 working people in Hong Kong, China. Findings show that although social change experienced did …

outcomes-low vs. high expectation-we found two ideal profiles of network ties-context. Bridging ties are the best fit for the … uncovered a pair of suboptimal equifinal designs: bonding and bridging ties are equally beneficial for the performance of new …

into two, this study investigates impacts of a superintendentfs bonding and bridging social capital on the performance of … school districts. Findings show that bridging social capital has positive impacts on organizational performance but in a time … exactly the opposite. This study argues that bonding and bridging social capital is not an "either-or" question and top …

instance, friends, acquaintances or strangers. Thus, in this paper bonding and bridging social capital is studied in the … context of two mobile communication services, short message services (SMSs) and voice calls. In Granovetter's terms, bridging … strong ties. We find that both SMSs and voice calls are used for bonding and bridging social capital, but SMSs are used more …