Posted by Riva Gianluca on February 28, 2002 at 10:31:24:

In Reply to: Interorganizational Knowledge Networks posted by Fenja on February 27, 2002 at 09:41:34:

Hi Fenja,
the dichotomy more common and fashionable right now it's that between closed cluster linked by trust (the so-called social capital) and weak ties which can provide information and knowledge the firm doesn't have at the moment (the academic expression is structural holes). The difference between horizontal/vertical alliances is a little out of date right now. The theory (you can find easily many papers on line) says that social capital and trusted cluster are necessary to implement an innovation, whereas the strructural holes are useful for the early phase of innovation, that is, creativity, idea hunting. We could say the structural holes/weak ties are the first phase of an innovation process, and the trusted cluster the latter...
Hope it helps
Kind Regards

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