The Role of IT Assets in Organizational Accumulation and Appropriation of Social Capital for Business Risk Mitigation and Inter-organizational Innovation
This dissertation comprises of three essays examining the interplay of information
technology with various social processes that typically inhabit the organizational space
The first essay presents the concept of a Relationship Memory System (RMS). This
study uses grounded theory methodology and interview data collected at a global
collections’ management firm to explore the idea that social capital, being the benefits
accruing from social relationships, can be appropriated by individuals other than those
that participated in its creation. It examines the processes whereby social capital,
created by individual members of an organization, can be accumulated into an
organizational resource and rendered appropriable by other members of that
organization. It examines the role of IT in enabling these processes of accumulation and
appropriation of social capital and introduces the concept of RMS, a socio-technical
system which combines technical capabilities with social processes within the
organization to bring about these dynamics.
This study began by approached the topic of outsourcing from the social capital
perspective, with the idea of studying the dynamics of social capital at various levels
(individual, team, organizational and inter-organizational) in a BPO environment and
examining its impact on various knowledge-related processes and on performance
outcomes for the organization. As the study progressed, the importance of relationships
to the focal business process, and the way in which relationships seemed to be leveraged
to enhance performance, emerged as a strong latency in the data. New insights emerged
that seemed to address some unanswered questions in social capital theory.
บทบาทของไอทีสินทรัพย์ในการสะสมองค์การและการจัดสรรทุนทางสังคมเพื่อการลดความเสี่ยงทางธุรกิจและนวัตกรรมระหว่างองค์กรวิทยานิพนธ์ฉบับนี้ประกอบด้วยสามบทความการตรวจสอบกันและกันของข้อมูลเทคโนโลยีที่มีกระบวนการทางสังคมต่างๆที่มักจะอาศัยอยู่ในพื้นที่ขององค์กรเรียงความแรกที่นำเสนอแนวคิดความสัมพันธ์ของระบบหน่วยความจำ นี้การศึกษาวิธีการใช้ทฤษฎีจากข้อมูลพื้นฐานและข้อมูลการสัมภาษณ์เก็บที่ทั่วโลกคอลเลกชัน' จัดการในการสำรวจความคิดที่ว่าทุนทางสังคมเป็นผลประโยชน์ที่เกิดจากความสัมพันธ์ทางสังคมที่สามารถจัดสรรโดยบุคคลอื่นที่ไม่ใช่ผู้ที่เข้าร่วมในการสร้าง ได้ทำการตรวจสอบกระบวนการโดยทุนทางสังคมที่สร้างขึ้นโดยสมาชิกแต่ละคนขององค์กรสามารถสะสมเป็นทรัพยากรขององค์กรและการแสดงผลappropriable ขององค์กร The Role of IT Assets in Organizational Accumulation and Appropriation of Social Capital for Business Risk Mitigation and Inter-organizational Innovation
This dissertation comprises of three essays examining the interplay of information
technology with various social processes that typically inhabit the organizational space
The first essay presents the concept of a Relationship Memory System (RMS). This
study uses grounded theory methodology and interview data collected at a global
collections’ management firm to explore the idea that social capital, being the benefits
accruing from social relationships, can be appropriated by individuals other than those
that participated in its creation. It examines the processes whereby social capital,
created by individual members of an organization, can be accumulated into an
organizational resource and rendered appropriable by other members of that
organization. It examines the role of IT in enabling these processes of accumulation and
appropriation of social capital and introduces the concept of RMS, a socio-technical
system which combines technical capabilities with social processes within the
organization to bring about these dynamics.
This study began by approached the topic of outsourcing from the social capital
perspective, with the idea of studying the dynamics of social capital at various levels
(individual, team, organizational and inter-organizational) in a BPO environment and
examining its impact on various knowledge-related processes and on performance
outcomes for the organization. As the study progressed, the importance of relationships
to the focal business process, and the way in which relationships seemed to be leveraged
to enhance performance, emerged as a strong latency in the data. New insights emerged
that seemed to address some unanswered questions in social capital theory.
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