How Do We Connected?: Social Network Approach on Social Capital, Knowledge Sharing, Innovation

Chungil Chae (Chad)

David L. Passmore

November 8

Our life is closely embedded in social structure more than you might have thought

Which means

Nuestra vida esta sumergida en estructuras sociales mas de lo que puedes imaginar

Social Network and Social Capital

Social Capital

  • social capital is who you know, and this expands what you have (economic capital) or know (human capital). One fundamental underlying assumption about social capital is that social systems have immediate or expectant values

Social Capital

Nahapiet and Ghoshal (1998) saw social capital as an integrative framework for understanding the creation and sharing of knowledge in organizations.

  1. structural (e.g., network configuration),
  2. cognitive (shared codes, language, and narratives), and
  3. relational (e.g., trust, norms, and group identification) capitals be retrieved, combined, or exchanged.

Social Network

  • Social network as a group of individuals and the relation or relations defined on them.
  • social network analysis is “not simply an analytical method but a set of theories, models, and applications that are expressed in terms of relational concepts and processes”.

Co-Authorship

Co-Authorship

Supply Chain Network

Supply Chain Network

Supply Chain Network

Supply Chain Network

Supply Chain Network

Supply Chain Network

Supply Chain Network

Supply Chain Network

Supply Chain Network

Knowledge Sharing Network

Keyword Network

Keyword Network

Keyword Network

Network in Scientific Community

Brief Review of Article

  • J.-B Meyer el al. (1995) : Is It Opened or Closed?: Colombian Scinence on the Move
  • Bucheli et al. (2012) Growth of Scientific Production in Colombian University: An Intellectual Capital-based Approach

Is It Opened or Closed?: Colombian Scinence on the Move

J.-B Meyer el al. (1995) : Is It Opened or Closed?: Colombian Scinence on the Move

  • Exhibiting strengths and weaknesses of science in Colombia
  • Colombian scientific community: openness? or Isolation?
  • Data: publications lists from the PASCAL data based on Institut National de l’Information Scientique et Technique and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

J.-B Meyer el al. (1995) : Is It Opened or Closed?: Colombian Scinence on the Move

  • Scientific production in Colmbia has increased (1987-1993) but limited
  • Science production in Colombia is quite concentrated, both geographically and institutionally
  • There is a strong concentration of scientific production (dominated by Bogota)
  • Cooperation and produciton are two variales that show a strong correlation

Is It Opened or Closed?: Colombian Scinence on the Move

Is It Opened or Closed?: Colombian Scinence on the Move

J.-B Meyer el al. (1995) : Is It Opened or Closed?: Colombian Scinence on the Move

  • Traditionally, state-run universities
  • Academic career stability > Accumlation of knowledge
  • Medicine (332), Earth Science(259), Natural Science(245)
  • “The majority of the scientific work in Colombia is publised under collective authorship”

Growth of Scientific Production in Colombian University: An Intellectual Capital-based Approach

Bucheli et al. (2012) Growth of Scientific Production in Colombian University: An Intellectual Capital-based Approach

  • Relationship between growth trends and IC accumlation
  • Aim to provide a roadmap to improve the knowledge production in Colombian universities
  • Data from Web of Science (19,928 records from 1958 to 2008)

Bucheli et al. (2012) Growth of Scientific Production in Colombian University: An Intellectual Capital-based Approach

  • Suggesting classification - EEG: Early Exponential Growth Group - LEG: Late Exponential Growth Group - LIG: Linear and Irregular Growth Group

  • Intellectual Capital Accumlation - Intellectual Capital is the capacity to produce knowledge - Human Capital - Structural capital - Relational capital - Financial capital

Growth of Scientific Production in Colombian University: An Intellectual Capital-based Approach

Bucheli et al. (2012) Growth of Scientific Production in Colombian University: An Intellectual Capital-based Approach

  • Exponential growth is related to univerisities’ adapting capacity: changes to internal structure

Growth of Scientific Production in Colombian University: An Intellectual Capital-based Approach

  • Other university adopted changes from exponential group. ELG group’s late starts could be the cause of their delay in starting to publish

Growth of Scientific Production in Colombian University: An Intellectual Capital-based Approach

  • Universities’s publication growth is accelated by feedback from the accumlated intellectual capital

Growth of Scientific Production in Colombian University: An Intellectual Capital-based Approach

  • The accumluation of external co-authorship relationship is an important factor for producing knowledge

Social Network and Knowledge Sharing

Chae, Han, Yoon (2016) Social Capital as Antecedents of Knowledge Sharing: A Social Network Approach

  • Knowledge sharing is a key driver for organization success. Through personal and information networks, organizations become more responsive to planning, implementing, and correcting courses of actions

  • Social capital theory suggests that the network of relationships embodied in individuals is influential to the interpersonal knowledge sharing behavior

Research Design

  • 29 Students multiple relationship
  • quadratic assignment procedure (QAP)

Hypothesis

  • Hypothesis 1: The extent to which actor i share knowledge with actor j is a positive function of the extent to which actor i believes that actor j is task interdependent.

  • Hypothesis 2: The extent to which actor i share knowledge with actor j is a positive function of the extent to which actor i believes that actor j is trustworthy.

  • Hypothesis 3: The extent to which actor i share knowledge with actor j is a positive function of the extent to which actor i believes that actor j has friendship.

  • Hypothesis 4: The extent to which actor i share knowledge with actor j is a positive function of the extent to which actor i believes that actor j has relevant and valuable knowledge, skills, or expertise.

Model

Findings

Finding

Findings

The result from the network logistic regression analysis for the influence of social capital (i.e., structural, relational, and cognitive dimensions, Nahapiet & Ghoshal, 1998) on knowledge sharing found a good efficacy of the proposed research model (total fraction correct of 0.81) and the stronger influence of the structural dimension than the social and the cognitive dimension for predicting having a knowledge sharing relationship.

Question and Answer

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