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Category Archives: Social capital
Towards Social Capital in a Network Organization
Due to the complexity of an open multi-agent system, agents’ interactions are instantiated spontaneously, resulting in beneficent collaborations with one another for mutual actions that are beyond one’s current capabilities. Repeated patterns of interactions shape a feature of their organizational … Continue reading
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Trust in the Workplace and Community: The Role of Social Interactions
Extending the literature on social capital development in the community, this article examines the impact of diverse social interactions on the development of social trust in the workplace and investigates whether their effects differ in individualistic and collectivistic cultures. Using … Continue reading
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Economics of Social Capital: Implications for Organizational Performance
The role of social interactions and relationships at the individual, group/team, and organizational levels is becoming increasingly significant in today’s workplace. Relationships in an organization may provide some unplanned opportunities, and social capital is considered a new tool with which … Continue reading
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Getting on board: Organizational socialization and the contribution of social capital
When starting a new job, newcomers strive to learn the tasks and expectations of their work, decipher the unwritten rules or norms of the culture, and achieve membership in the organization. The literature on the socialization of newcomers in organizations typically links success … Continue reading
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Mechanisms of Social Capital in Organizations: How Team Cognition Influences Employee Commitment and Engagement
While previous research has shown that organizational social capital benefits organizations and creates performance gains, most of this work examined this relationship at the macro level based on organizational aggregates. In this article, we study organizational social capital effects at the micro … Continue reading
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Civic Life in the Divided Metropolis: Social Capital, Collective Action, and Residential Income Segregation
Social capital is presumed to help individuals who lack financial or human capital achieve collective action through their social ties and networks of relationships. But does it help individuals overcome their socioeconomic disadvantages relative to their wealthier neighbors, or does … Continue reading
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Transnational social capital: the socio-spatialities of civil society
Civil society remains a contested concept, but one that is widely embedded in global development processes. Transnationalism within civil society scholarship is often described dichotomously, either through hierarchical dependency relations or as a more amorphous networked global civil society. These two contrasting spatial imaginaries … Continue reading
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Inequality in Access to Social Capital
Whereas much research has been done on the benefits of social capital, less is known about the causes of the unequal distribution of social capital in people’s networks. This study examines inequalities in access to social capital in terms of … Continue reading
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Internet Use and Social Capital – The Strength of Virtual Ties
This paper aims to understand how Internet users may improve their social capital by investing in online social activities. We argue that the Internet can be a convenient and efficient means of maintaining existing social ties and/or of creating new … Continue reading
Intra-organizational Networks: The role of Teams
How does one build effective intra-organizational networks? An impressive body of research has accumulated on this question. Surprisingly, though, this literature has largely ignored one of the key relational building blocks of many organizations: formal teams. The neglect of teams … Continue reading
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