Janine Nahapiet

University of Oxford | OX · Green Templeton College (CTG)

This article begins by suggesting that one must define human capital (HC) from a social perspective, the value of which inevitably depends on a wide range of social factors and relationships. The focus here is on the relationship between human (individual) capital and social capital, and their impact on each other's development. The article examine...

A central challenge in the study of inter-organizational relationships (IORs) is to explain why and how organizations connect effectively, work cooperatively, and coordinate their activities to achieve superior performance. The strategic logic and motives underpinning the increased move to IORs in western economies include access to key resources,...

Abstract We believe that structural changes in a knowledge economy mean that managers will increasingly seek to make cooperative relationships the norm in their organisations. However, they are hampered in their attempts to do so by organisation designs that institutionalise the dominant assumption about human intentionality, which sees people and...

Strategy is a pervasive and consequential practice in mostWestern societies. We respond to strategy’s importance by drawing an initial map of strategy as an organizational field that embraces not just firms, but consultancies, business schools, the state and financial institutions. Using the example of Enron, we show how the strategy field is prone...

This book adopts a knowledge-based perspective that sees the firm as a store of knowledge resources and capabilities. The firm’s knowledge base includes the expertise and experience of individuals, the routine and processes that define the distinctive way of doing things inside the organization, as well as the knowledge of customer needs and suppli...

This research focuses on creating a theory of the "organizational advantage," a new concept identified within business and management. Using social capital research as a foundation for this theory, three of the study's objectives are identified: 1) incorporate different aspects of social capital to identify three common dimensions; 2) explain the r...

Scholars of the theory of the firm have begun to emphasize the sources and conditions of what has been described as “the organizational advantage,” rather than focus on the causes and consequences of market failure. Typically, researchers see such organizational advantage as accruing from the particular capabilities organizations have for creating...

Value creation is the essence of effective firm strategies as well as the primary source of their advantage over market institutions (Moran and Ghoshal, 1996). The source of this advantage, we argue, lies in their ability to develop dense social capital which facilitates the creation of intellectual capital and, therefrom, of new value.

This paper presents a case study of health service resource allocation as a basis for exploring how organizational members come to understand the meanings and implications of accounting change within the enterprise. The analysis describes how the significance of a new calculative process emerges over time, during which accounting both shapes and is...

This paper considers contracts from an organizational perspective, comparing the major forms of contracts available for building projects and examining the factors influencing their selection. The analysis is based on the finding of a study of ten building projects, six in the USA and four in the UK, together with the results of a survey of those p...

The paper seeks to contrast the roles that have been claimed on behalf of accounting with the ways in which accounting functions in practice. It starts by examining the context in which rationales for practice are articulated and the adequacy of such claims. Thereafter consideration is given to how accounting is implicated in both organizational an...

Researchers and practitioners are increasingly emphasizing the need for the development of new forms of information systems to meet the changing requirements of their organizational users. If changes in information systems are to occur, they will need to be based on a comprehensive understanding of the antecedents and consequences of such systems w...

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of London, 2003. Includes bibliographical references. Photocopy.