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 practices. Studying a case of a large multibusiness firm, she comes to counter-intuitive conclusions: 1) Not all types of cross-business collaboration require the same intensity level of social capital. 2) To build strong forms of social capital, single networking events seem to fall short. The alignment of practices over time needs to be considered.

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Corporate Management
Management & Leadership Development
Strategic Human Resources Management
Strategic Process Management
Wirtschaftswissenschaft

About the author

Dr. Eva Bilhuber Galli wrote her dissertation under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Günter Müller-Stewens at the Institute of Management, University of St. Gallen (Switzerland). She is the founder of human facts ag and works as a management consultant and executive coach.

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Book Title: Building Social Capital in a Multibusiness Firm
Book Subtitle: Lessons from a Case Study
Authors: Eva Bilhuber Galli
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-8349-6171-6
Publisher: Gabler Verlag Wiesbaden
eBook Packages: Business and Economics, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: Gabler Verlag | Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, Wiesbaden 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-8349-2707-1Published: 09 December 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-3-8349-6171-6Published: 22 January 2011
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 271
Number of Illustrations: 22 b/w illustrations
Topics: Human Resource Management, Management

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

Front Matter

Introduction

Existing Theory and Research

Research Approach

Case Study

Analytical Generalization

Conclusion

Back Matter

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