Knowledge Creation and Social Networks in Corporate Entrepreneurship: The Renewal of Organizational Capability
分析了内部选择-保留环境中的知识动态和社会结构，提出一个整合模型解释组织如何克服能力发展中的惯性，并推导出系列命题供未来实证研究。
This paper extends current theory by analyzing the knowledge dynamics and social structure of the internal selection-retention environment. On the knowledge side, our view is that entrepreneurial ideas are subjected progressively to subjectivist, empiricist, and pragmatic criteria in the process of knowledge creation. This argument helps to explain how individual knowledge enters an organizational process and how individual knowledge becomes shared within the group. For social structures, we argue that actor centrality, structural equivalence, and bridging relationships account for an individual's ability to acquire novel information and to achieve a position of influence. Combining these assertions, the paper offers an integrative model that explains how organizations overcome inertia in the capability development process. A series of propositions are deduced as a basis for conducting future empirical research, and the paper closes with a discussion of the model's implications for theory and practice.