Social Capital Knowledge

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Author(s): Daniel L. Davenport (University of Kentucky Chandler Medical Center, USA)and Clyde W. Hosapple (University of Kentucky, USA)
Copyright: 2008
Pages: 11
Source title: Knowledge Management: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Murray E. Jennex (San Diego State University, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-933-5.ch029

Keywords: Information Science Reference / Knowledge Management / Library & Information Science

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Abstract

Organizations have capabilities for creating and sharing knowledge (intellectual capital) that give them their distinctive advantage over other institutional arrangements, such as markets (Ghoshal & Nahapiet, 1998). But, what is the basis of a firm’s knowledge development capabilities? At least in part, the answer is that these capabilities stem from the social capital that an organization possesses as a result of bringing people together for extended periods of time, creating interdependence through specialization and integration, forcing interaction, and providing boundaries and directions. Following the resource-based theory of the firm (Conner & Prahalad, 1996), enterprises that cultivate particular forms of social capital are likely to realize competitive advantages (Ghoshal & Nahapiet, 1998).

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