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Gestion des connaissances et capital social : quelles interrelations ?

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  • Université Catholique de Louvain et ICHEC
  • Luxembourg Institute for Science and Technology
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... The social capital and network theory research were related to fields such as innovation (Landry, Amara and Lamari, 2000), entrepreneurship (Larson, 1991;Batjargal, 2000;Jack, Dodd and Anderson, 2004), the performance of individuals, teams and organizations (Nelson, 1989;Ostgaard and Birley , 1994;Ndangwa, Sonna and Djeumene, 2007;Brulhart and Puaux-Claye, 2009), mobility and career progression (Baret and Soto Maciel, 2004;Benedic et al., 2009), inter-firm relations (Barnir and Smith, 2002), etc. The mobilization of the corpus of social networks can effectively respond to problems related to inter-company financing, through the cognitive form of social capital which is confidence. ...
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