Building Social Capital in a Multibusiness Firm Lessons from a Case
Realizing synergies across different businesses is a mulitbusiness firm’s generic strategic challenge. Eva Bilhuber Galli investigates the role of social capital in cross-business collaboration and how to build it effectively with leadership development p
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GABLER RESEARCH
Eva Bilhuber Galli
Building Social Capital in a Multibusiness Firm Lessons from a Case Study
RESEARCH
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Doctoral thesis, University of St. Gallen (Switzerland), 2009
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Overview of Contents 1 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4
Introduction.................................................................................................. 1 Research Problem and Research Gaps .......................................................... 3 Research Focus and Guiding Questions ........................................................ 5 Purpose and Contribution .............................................................................. 8 Outline of Dissertation ................................................................................... 9
2.1 2.2 2.3
Existing Theory and Research .................................................................. 12 Multibusiness Firms..................................................................................... 12 Leadership Development in Multibusiness Firms ....................................... 23 Strategic Alignment of Leadership Development in Multibusiness Firms . 37
3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7
Research Approach ................................................................................... 55 Introduction.................................................................................................. 55 General Scientific Approach........................................................................ 55 Research Methodology ................................................................................ 56 Research Design .......................................................................................... 59 Data Analysis ............................................................................................... 70 Research Quality .......................................................
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