Corporate Venture Capitalists with a ‘Bird’s-Eye View’ – A Dynamic Social Network Perspective

Christiana Weber

Schmalenbach Business Review (sbr), 2009, vol. 61, issue 2, 195-224

Abstract: I empirically analyze the formation and transformation of corporate venture capitalists’ (CVC) social networks and social capital. I investigate the resulting structural and relational changes illuminating the process of interorganizational knowledge transfer and innovation generation of CVC programs. I find that CVC networks and the resulting social capital can ease knowledge transfer and innovation, but may over time also hinder it, thus turning social capital into a liability. Theoretically, I expand existing literature by investigating a so far unexplored intra-/interorganizational knowledge broker configuration, and I identify additional roles of the CVC manager as mediator and interventionist with a privileged bird’s-eye view.

Keywords: Corporate Venture Capital; Dynamic Social Network Perspective; Innovation Generation; Knowledge Broker; Knowledge Transfer and Creation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D83 D85 M10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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