Foundations of Social Capital
Author: Elinor Ostrom
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 648
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume contains 23 articles on social capital, dating from 1840 to 2002.
Author: Elinor Ostrom
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 648
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume contains 23 articles on social capital, dating from 1840 to 2002.
Author: Nan Lin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2002-05-20
Total Pages: 298
ISBN-13: 9780521521673
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →1. Theories of Capital: The Historical Foundation. 3. 2. Social Capital: Capital Captured through Social Relations. 19. 3. Resources, Hierarchy, Networks, and Homophily: The Structural Foundation. 29. 4. Resources, Motivations, and Interactions: The Action Foundation. 41. 5. The Theory and Theoretical Propositions. 55. 6. Social Capital and Status Attainment: A Research Tradition. 78. 7. Inequality in Social Capital: A Research Agenda. 99. 8. Social Capital and the Emergence of Social Structure: A Theory of Rational Choice. 127. 9. Reputation and Social Capital: The Rational Basis for Social Exchange. 143. 10. Social Capital in Hierarchical Structures. 165. 11. Institutions, Networks, and Capital Building: Societal Transformations. 184. 12. Cybernetworks and the Global Village: The Rise of Social Capital. 210. 13. The Future of the Theory. 243. . References. 251. . Index. 267.
Author: Phillip H. Kim
Publisher: Now Publishers Inc
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 68
ISBN-13: 9781933019109
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Social Capital and Entrepreneurship concludes by examining the tension between the properties of social networks used in entrepreneurship researchers' models and the limited perspective on networks available to practicing entrepreneurs.
Author: Eric Lesser
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2009-11-03
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 1136390456
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Social capital - the informal networks, trust and common understanding among individuals in an organization - determines major competitive advantages in today's networked economy. Knowledge and Social Capital explains how social capital can drive collaboration, reconcile an organization's internal and external labor markets, and improve organizational effectiveness. This edited compilation of authoritative articles helps readers understand how they can build and capitalize on their own organizations' social capital. Knowledge and Social Capital teaches core principles and important strategies to a range of executives, including organizational development specialists, corporate strategists, and knowledge management professionals. Readers will learn how an organization can:
Author: Nan Lin
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Published:
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13: 0202368947
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Leading scholars in the field of social networks from diverse disciplines present the first systematic and comprehensive collection of current theories and empirical research on the informal connections that individuals have for support, help, and information from other people. Expanding on concepts originally formulated by Pierre Bourdieu and James Coleman, this seminal work will find an essential place with educators and students in the fields of social networks, rational choice theory, institutions, and the socioeconomics of poverty, labor markets, social psychology, and race. The volume is divided into three parts. The first segment clarifies social capital as a concept and explores its theoretical and operational bases. Additional segments provide brief accounts that place the development of social capital in the context of the family of capital theorists, and identify some critical but controversial perspectives and statements regarding social capital in the literature. The editors then make the argument for the network perspective, why and how such a perspective can clarify controversies and advance our understanding of a whole range of instrumental and expressive outcomes. Social Capital further provides a forum for ongoing research programs initiated by social scientists working at the crossroads of formal theory and new methods. These scholars and programs share certain understandings and approaches in their analyses of social capital. They argue that social networks are the foundation of social capital. Social networks simultaneously capture individuals and social structure, thus serving as a vital conceptual link between actions and structural constraints, between micro- and macro-level analyses, and between relational and collective dynamic processes. They are further cognizant of the dual significance of the "structural" features of the social networks and the "resources" embedded in the networks as defining elements of social capital. Nan Lin is professor of sociology, Duke University. Karen Cook is Ray Lyman Wilber Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, Stanford University. Ronald S. Burt is Hobart W. Williams Professor of Sociology and Strategy, University of Chicago Graduate School of Business.
Author: Eric Lesser
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 0750672226
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This work argues that there is more to explaining the differences in business success than individual characteristics alone. It examines an organization's ability to manage its knowledge resources, build coherence among its management team, and address opportunities in the outside environment.
Author: Peter Walkenhorst
Publisher: Verlag Bertelsmann Stiftung
Published: 2010-07-30
Total Pages: 157
ISBN-13: 3867932328
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The book presents the work and development of community foundations in an international perspective. It comprises essays on the history and spread of the community foundation movement, on the role of community foundations in fostering social capital and civic engagement and on key aspects of the day-to-day work of community foundations, such as asset development, donor services and marketing. The book will be of value and interest to community foundation professionals, donors, advisors and all who are interested in community philanthropy. With contributions from Mary Command, Lewis M. Feldstein, Donnell S. Mersereau, Helen Monroe, Eleanor W. Sacks, Thomas H. Sander and Shannon E. St. John.
Author: James S. Coleman
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 1022
ISBN-13: 9780674312265
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Suggests a new approach to describing both stability and change in social systems by linking the behavior of individuals to organizational behavior.
Author: Julia Häuberer
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2010-10-27
Total Pages: 315
ISBN-13: 3531926462
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The field of social capital still lacks a recognized general theory. Accordingly, various and sometimes inappropriate measurements are used for it. Julia Häuberer contributes to filling in this gap and provides progress towards the creation of a formalized social capital theory based on the founding concepts of social capital of Bourdieu (1983) and Coleman (1988), and current concepts of Putnam (2000), Burt (1992) and Lin (2001). The second part of the monograph focuses on the quality of measurements of the more general concept of social capital derived in the first part. Therefore, the telephone survey “Social Relationships among Czech Citizens” conducted as a test-retest experiment is analyzed. This book is valuable reading for academics in Sociology and Political Science.
Author: Kenneth William Koput
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Published: 2010-01-01
Total Pages: 177
ISBN-13: 1849806918
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This will be a tremendous addition to the social capital literature and especially teaching some of the concepts of social capital at the graduate level. Such a text is badly needed and quite remarkable that no one has published it before. Viva Ona Bartkus, University of Notre Dame, US Social network analysis was, until recently, a relatively unknown branch of sociology and anthropology. The development of menu-driven computer software packages has opened up access for a wide range of audiences, including business and human resource managers. Yet, the tools themselves are of little value without an understanding of the concepts that can relate the computed measures to relevant applications. Social capital provides a framework for relating the abstract world of graph theory, which underlies network analysis, to the concrete world of human behavior. This book teaches how to understand and manage social capital to facilitate individual and organizational learning and goal attainment. Coverage includes both orchestrating relationships of others and navigating one s own social interactions. Written at an introductory level and accessible to those without background in network analysis or graph theory, this text combines both comprehensive analysis and concrete concepts to emphasize how critical a role social capital s applications play on the foundations of business as we know it today. A reference book for practice and academia, this book will appeal to graduate and undergraduate students of business, business executives and all those concerned with cultivating and refining an understanding of social capital.