Chapter 6 - Social Capital, Intellectual Capital, and the Organizational Advantage^*

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Janine Nahapiet is a fellow of strategic management at Templeton College, Oxford University, and Director of the Oxford Institute of Strategic and International Management. Her current research focuses on the links between strategy and organization in global firms and on value creation through networks. She has a postgraduate diploma in management from the London School of Economics and a first degree in psychology and sociology from the University of Sheffield, England.

Sumantra Ghoshal received his Ph.D. in international management from MIT's Sloan School of Management and a DBA in business policy from the Harvard Business School. He holds the Robert P. Bauman Chair in Strategic Leadership at the London Business School and is on leave from INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France. His current research focuses on the roles and tasks of managers in large corporations.