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SUMMARY:Seminar by Prof. Anne Ter Wal\, Imperial College London
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DESCRIPTION:Prof. Anne Ter Wal\, Imperial College London\n"The division of
  networks and innovation"\n\nRésumé:\n\nDeveloping innovations often req
 uires close collaboration between technologists and managers\, who each in
  addition may call on their network connections to access information or i
 nfluence decision-making. Exploiting a unique setting of R&D technologists
  and managers in a large multinational who are “partnered-up” in their
  pursuit of innovation\, this study assesses under what circumstances tech
 nologists (managers) benefit from duplicating ties to the same groups in t
 he organization as their manager partner (technologist partner)\, or rathe
 r from dividing the network with their partner by each addressing differen
 t groups. Introducing the concept of network role equivalence – the exte
 nt to which two individuals are tied to the same role sets inside the orga
 nization – this paper aims to build and test a theory of the division ve
 rsus duplication of networks that advances our understanding of second-ord
 er social capital and its role in the information and influencing aspects 
 of the innovation process. Through a mixed-method study we test how networ
 k role equivalence affects technologists’ (managers’) innovation perfo
 rmance and how the merits of a division or duplication-of-networks approac
 h are contingent on characteristics of the partnership and the nature of t
 heir work.
LOCATION:EPFL\, ODY 4.03\, VIP Room http://plan.epfl.ch/?zoom=19&recenter_
 y=5863800.12869&recenter_x=731560.22521&layerNodes=fonds\,batiments\,label
 s\,information\,parkings_publics\,arrets_metro\,transports_publics&floor=4
 &q=ODY_4.03
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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