Bell, 2007: Geography, Networks, and Knowledge Flow

Topic:

Institutional-level ties are valuable in knowledge transmission only when such ties are geographically proximate. Organization-level ties fail to act as transmitters of knowledge, regardless of geographic location. Interestingly, we find that geographically distant individual-level friendship ties are superior conduits for knowledge flow, which suggests they span “geographic holes.”

survey as well as social network data, 102 employees of 64 canadian mutual fund companies

Constructs in this publication:

Construct	Cites	Category	Questions given?	Content validity	Pretests	Response type	Notes
Knowledge Flow	NEW		partially	some potential participants	none	5-point likert scale from "never" to "very often"
Friendship	NEW		partially	some potential participants	none	binary: yes/no

This publication is cited by the following publications:

• Witherspoon et al., 2013: Social network

Citation:

Geoffrey G. Bell and Akbar Zaheer. Geography, Networks, and Knowledge Flow. Organization Science, 18(6):955–972, December 2007. doi:10.1287/orsc.1070.0308.

Bibtex

@article{bell_geography_2007,
 author = {Bell, Geoffrey G. and Zaheer, Akbar},
 doi = {10.1287/orsc.1070.0308},
 issn = {1047-7039, 1526-5455},
 journal = {Organization Science},
 language = {en},
 month = {December},
 number = {6},
 pages = {955-972},
 title = {Geography, {{Networks}}, and {{Knowledge Flow}}},
 volume = {18},
 year = {2007}
}

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