Social Capital and the Social Context of Business Networks

2017 ◽  
pp. 269-288 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Susomrith ◽  
Y. Suseno
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Social Context ◽  
Business Networks ◽  
The Social

MINORITY BUSINESS NETWORKS AS SOURCES OF SOCIAL CAPITAL FOR MINORITY FIRMS

2013 ◽  
Vol 18 (03) ◽  
pp. 1350019 ◽  
Author(s):  
IAN Y. BLOUNT ◽  
DELMONIZE A. SMITH ◽  
JAMES A. HILL
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Resource Dependence ◽  
Minority Business ◽  
Business Owners ◽  
Business Networks ◽  
Business Network ◽  
Relative Value ◽  
The Social ◽  
Minority Business Owners ◽  
Resource Dependence Perspective

Much of our understanding concerning minority-owned firms is based on nascent entrepreneurial businesses. Therefore, it is difficult to answer the question of how a minority-owned firm's age and size may influence the social capital derived from a minority business network. We utilize a resource-dependence perspective to hypothesize that the social capital derived from participation in a minority business network will be negatively related to the minority-owned firm's age and size. We find that firm size (as measured by revenue and number of employees) is negatively related with social capital derived from the minority business network. Our findings may help minority business owners understand the relative value of membership in minority business networks before committing limited resources.

Corruption in interaction: the role of social capital in private–public relationships

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia V. Bondeli ◽  
Malena I. Havenvid ◽  
Hans Solli-Sæther
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Material Flow ◽  
Business Networks ◽  
Administrative Authority ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Public Network ◽  
Industrial Marketing ◽  
The Social ◽  
Flow Through

Purpose This paper aims to explore corrupt exchange as a type of socioeconomic interaction in private–public relationships and its effects on material flow in connected private-private relationships. Design/methodology/approach The paper is based on a case study of a private–public network of an import firm in Russia. It focusses on corrupt exchange in routine interactions between the firm’s managers and officials in three regulatory authorities. Findings The study reveals how different types of corrupt exchange between firm managers, officials and intermediaries serve as a problem-solving tool that facilitates material flow through bureaucratic gates. Research limitations/implications The paper contributes to the industrial marketing and purchasing research by showing how the social capital concept is useful for explicating mechanisms of socioeconomic interaction in business networks and how the interaction context conditions actors’ roles and interdependencies. Practical implications The paper raises practitioners’ awareness of corrupt exchange in business networks and enables them to anticipate and manage upcoming challenges in bureaucratic procedures. Social implications The study shows how networks’ non-transparent and manipulative tendencies may provide favourable conditions for corruption in the business landscape. Originality/value The study provides a unique empirical insight into the socioeconomic mechanisms of corrupt exchange in business networks. It contributes theoretically by conceptualising corrupt officials as taking on the role of quasi-business actors in the personal possession of administrative authority as a resource and by using a novel conceptualisation of social capital to study private–public interaction in business networks.

scholarly journals Placing social capital in business networks: conceptualisation and research agenda

2018 ◽  
Vol 33 (8) ◽  
pp. 1100-1113 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia V. Bondeli ◽  
Malena Ingemansson Havenvid ◽  
Hans Solli-Sæther
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Social Exchange ◽  
Economic Sociology ◽  
Business Networks ◽  
Business Relationships ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Novel Approach ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Side ◽  
Original Interpretation

Purpose This paper aims to refine conceptual treatment of the social facet in business relationships and reinforce its significance in the industrial marketing and purchasing (IMP) research tradition by integrating the concept of social capital in its original interpretation into the actor-resource-activity (ARA) model. Design/methodology/approach The paper begins by indicating some typical conceptual challenges associated with application of social capital in IMP. This is followed by a conceptual clarification that explores the origin and the essence of social capital in economic sociology. Finally, the paper proposes integrating social capital in its original interpretation into IMP’s ARA model and presents four propositions on how social capital is created in interaction between business actors. Findings The paper shows how bridging Bourdieu’s theory of social capital with the IMP approach may solve the identified conceptual challenges. This paper’s main contribution is a cyclical model depicting how social capital is created in business networks. It is integrated into the ARA model and designed specifically for studying the social facet of business relationships. Research limitations/implications The paper is expected to aid IMP researchers in empirical contexts where the social component in business relationships is particularly prominent. As such, the novel approach presented could be used to further understand how social exchange processes are related to relationship governance, relationship initiation and development. Originality/value The proposed model shows how social capital is generated through the dynamic interplay in the social facets of actor, activity and resource dimensions, emphasising its creation dynamics. The model integrates insights from the classic works in economic sociology to strengthen the social side of IMP’s socioeconomic interface and is intended to be used as a tool for empirical application.

scholarly journals The social context of well–being

2004 ◽  
Vol 359 (1449) ◽  
pp. 1435-1446 ◽  
Author(s):  
John F. Helliwell ◽  
Robert D. Putnam
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Social Context ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Marriage And Family ◽  
Family Ties ◽  
Subjective Evaluations ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Us ◽  
Community Ties

Large samples of data from the World Values Survey, the US Benchmark Survey and a comparable Canadian survey are used to estimate equations designed to explore the social context of subjective evaluations of well–being, of happiness, and of health. Social capital, as measured by the strength of family, neighbourhood, religious and community ties, is found to support both physical health and subjective well–being. Our new evidence confirms that social capital is strongly linked to subjective well–being through many independent channels and in several different forms. Marriage and family, ties to friends and neighbours, workplace ties, civic engagement (both individually and collectively), trustworthiness and trust: all appear independently and robustly related to happiness and life satisfaction, both directly and through their impact on health.

MAJELIS TAKLIM SEBAGAI BASIS PEMBERDAYAAN UMAT

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (33) ◽  
Author(s):  
Firman Nugraha
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Social Context ◽  
Community Development ◽  
Entry Point ◽  
The Real ◽  
Development Models ◽  
The Social

The aims of this article is to describe comparatively the model of community developmentbase on majelis taklim. The rationale framework is used that Islam and Muslims who become the majority can become social capital for community development. The results of this study conclude that the social context being the entry point for community empowering. The articulation of the developmentactivism was adjusted to the real problems. So that from the two majelis taklim are studied show a different development models, but in the same spirit to defend to the opressed.  Keywords: Majelis Taklim, Transformative Councelling, the Oppressed, Islamic Economy.

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