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Social network structure and performance of improvement teams

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  • Jar-Der Luo

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There is a kind of knowledge, possessed by groups, that is more than the aggregation of individual knowledge. Nahapiet and Ghoshal call it intellectual capital. How does social structure, in a project team, influence collective knowing capability? In this study, several conclusions are made. First, a project team with a median centralisation of power has a good evaluation. Second, a team structure with fully connected cliques has a significant impact on group performance. It is also found that only consultative ties are related to knowledge exchange and combination, while friendship ties have nothing to do with the team's performance.

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  • Jar-Der Luo, 2005. "Social network structure and performance of improvement teams," International Journal of Business Performance Management, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 7(2), pages 208-223.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijbpma:v:7:y:2005:i:2:p:208-223
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    1. Luis Cisneros & Mihai Ibanescu & Christian Keen & Odette Lobato-Calleros & Juan Niebla-Zatarain, 2018. "Bibliometric study of family business succession between 1939 and 2017: mapping and analyzing authors’ networks," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 117(2), pages 919-951, November.
    2. Wei Shan & Chu Zhang & Jingyi Wang, 2018. "Internal Social Network, Absorptive Capacity and Innovation: Evidence from New Ventures in China," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 10(4), pages 1-27, April.

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