Social networks near and far: The role of bonding and bridging social capital for assets of the rural poor

2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 189-210 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tewodaj Mogues
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Social Networks ◽  
Rural Poor ◽  
Bridging Social Capital ◽  
Bonding And Bridging

Students climbing the entrepreneurial ladder

2016 ◽  
Vol 28 (6) ◽  
pp. 1115-1136 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giovanna Campopiano ◽  
Tommaso Minola ◽  
Ruggero Sainaghi
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
New Ventures ◽  
Entrepreneurial Process ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Bridging Social Capital ◽  
Entrepreneurial Spirit ◽  
The Family ◽  
Bonding And Bridging ◽  
The Relationship

Purpose This paper aims to address the research question of whether family social capital affects the degree of engagement in the entrepreneurial process in the case of hospitality and tourism (H&T) new ventures, and how this relates to environment-related motivations. In particular, drawing on a process-based approach of individuals’ engagement in entrepreneurship, this paper provides new insights into the relationship between the perception of support by the family through the provision of bonding and bridging social capital and the decision to engage in the entrepreneurial process. The main contribution consists in the role of “following an environmental mission” that emerges as a motivation mediating the relationship between family resource provision and entrepreneurial engagement in the H&T industry. Design/methodology/approach For this exploratory study, we rely on cross-sectional observations from 2,923 individuals gathered through the Global University Entrepreneurial Spirit Students Survey, which collects information on career choices and preferences of university students around the globe. Given our focus on the early engagement process in entrepreneurship and the role of embeddedness in family structures, the use of a sample of young potential entrepreneurs such as students is particularly appropriate. Findings This study suggests that the family acts as a fundamental institution fostering entrepreneurship, both through the provision of bonding and bridging social capital, and the nurturing of attitudes toward the environment. The results indicate that, in the H&T industry, entrepreneurship can be a valuable means to pursue such attitude and is perceived as a way to proactively contribute to undertake responsible environmental activities. Research limitations/implications The study provides some implications for researchers, educators and policymakers interested in fostering entrepreneurial initiatives in the field, considering the role of a social-oriented mission as a vehicle to encourage profit-oriented entrepreneurial initiatives, and the importance of the family as a resource provider that fosters entrepreneurial engagement. The paper also discusses the strengths and limitations of this unique and broad cross-national sample. Originality/value Becoming entrepreneurs is depicted as climbing an entrepreneurial “ladder”, whereby each individual’s engagement along this process depends on a number of antecedents. Family bridging and bonding social capital, as well as following an environmental mission, emerge as important factors in the H&T industry, thus extending previous literature on the distinctiveness of this industry.

scholarly journals 'I Hear You': Effects of Voice Communication on the Social Capital of Gamers

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 45
Author(s):  
Cosmin Ghețău ◽  
Mihai Bogdan Iovu
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Voice Communication ◽  
Bonding Social Capital ◽  
Bridging Social Capital ◽  
The Social ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
Bonding And Bridging

In the present paper we approached bonding and bridging social capital among gamers (seen as individuals who spend at least an hour a day in games) who use (or don’t use) voice communication while playing. Suspecting that voice communication usage facilitates the social capital formation. We also investigated the role of perceived anonymity as a confounding variable. To test our hypothesis, a quantitative research was carried out. The study focuses on the subsequent elements: voice application usage; perceived anonymity; and the presence of the following forms of social capital: bonding social capital and bridging social capital. Data collection was based on surveys spread in the online environment and resulted in a sample of 102 respondents. Based on quasi-experimental design we obtained data that display higher mean scores on bonding and bridging social capital scales on the experiment group (voice communication users) than in control group (non-voice communication users). Also, control group have a lower score on the perceived anonymity scale. One explanation for our results could be that voice communication reduces perceived anonymity and individuals that consider themselves as having a low level of anonymity engage in more controlled behaviors that in turn facilitate the formation of social capital.

scholarly journals Pengentasan Orang Miskin di Indonesia: Peran Modal Sosial yang Terlupakan

2016 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 88-102
Author(s):  
Sofyan Yamin ◽  
Teguh Dartanto
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Poverty Alleviation ◽  
Poverty Rate ◽  
Economic Approach ◽  
Missing Link ◽  
Bridging Social Capital ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Bonding And Bridging

Poverty Alleviation in Indonesia: The Missing Link of Social CapitalThe government has a dominance role and heavily focused on economic approach in poverty alleviaton in Indonesia. Poverty rate has been reduced, but not in significant way. Revitalization of poverty alleviation programs by promoting non-economic such as social capital becomes important. This study aims to analyze the role of social capital related to the bonding and bridging dimension in promoting poverty alleviation and protecting the poor from vulnerability. Based on the study, the bonding and bridging dimension has showed the significant effect to decrease the vulnerability and pulled out the poor from the poverty line.Keywords: Bonding and Bridging Social Capital; Poverty; Simultaneous EquationAbstrakNuansa kebijakan pengentasan orang miskin selama ini terkesan menitikberatkan pada pendekatan ekonomi dengan peran Negara yang sangat dominan. Meskipun tingkat kemiskinan menurun tapi tidak terlalu signifikan. Revitalisasi pengentasan orang miskin dengan mendorong faktor non-ekonomi seperti modal sosial menjadi penting. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menganalisa peran modal sosial terkait dengan bonding dan bridging dalam mendorong pengentasan orang miskin dan melindungi kerentanan kelompok miskin. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan modal sosial bonding dan bridging terbukti secara empiris mempunyai peran penting dalam mengurangi kedalaman kemiskinan dan juga mampu mendorong orang miskin keluar dari kemiskinan.

scholarly journals Benefits and pitfalls of social capital for farmer cooperatives: evidence from China

2018 ◽  
Vol 21 (8) ◽  
pp. 1137-1152 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yining Xu ◽  
Qiao Liang ◽  
Zuhui Huang
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Social Performance ◽  
Negative Influence ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Bonding Social Capital ◽  
Bridging Social Capital ◽  
Farmer Cooperatives ◽  
Bonding And Bridging

This paper conducts an exploratory analysis on the role of social capital in influencing both economic and social performance of farmer cooperatives based on a sample of 156 farmers from 54 vegetable cooperatives in China’s Hebei and Zhejiang provinces. Social capital is distinguished into bonding and bridging dimensions, with the former referring to the internal aspect of social capital and the latter the external “Guanxi” (meaning relationship) possessed by core members. The statistical results display that specific dimensions of social capital may not deliver the benefits expected by cooperative practitioners and academics. Both positive and negative effects of social capital on performances of farmer cooperatives are observed. To be specific, bonding social capital is positively associated with common members’ economic benefits. Bridging social capital generates beneficial outcomes for the financial and social performances of cooperatives, while exhibiting negative influence on common members’ income increase because of member heterogeneity.

The effect of social capital on organizational repertoires of American Protestant missions

2021 ◽  
pp. 003776862110532
Author(s):  
Jared Bok
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Religious Identity ◽  
Multiple Correspondence Analysis ◽  
Network Size ◽  
Bonding Social Capital ◽  
Organizational Network ◽  
Bridging Social Capital ◽  
Mission Agencies ◽  
Bonding And Bridging

A religious organization’s choice of activities is shaped not only by theological goals but also the capital available to it. Prior research has shown how economic and religious capital influence Protestant missionary organizations’ repertoires of activism but has largely ignored the role of social capital. Using the most recent data on transnational American Protestant mission agencies, this study aims to fill this gap. Using a Bourdieuian field approach and multiple correspondence analysis, the study finds that linking and bonding social capital both shape whether an agency generalizes rather than specializes in specific ministry activities. Both bonding and bridging social capital, in turn, prompt a more other-worldly than this-worldly ministry orientation, but this is a pattern most characteristic of Evangelical agencies, suggesting an intersection between religious identity and organizational network size. The study concludes by discussing the implications of these findings for interorganizational collaboration and resource use.

scholarly journals Dynamics of sociocultural and linguistic identity in the process of socialisation in a multicultural society

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-22
Author(s):  
Elena Belinskaya ◽  
Tatiana Martsinkovskaya ◽  
Vasilisa Orestova ◽  
Ekaterina Kiseleva ◽  
Evgenia Kriger
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
Professional Activity ◽  
Multicultural Society ◽  
Linguistic Identity ◽  
Bridging Social Capital ◽  
Multicultural Environment ◽  
The Family ◽  
Bonding And Bridging

The relevance of the problem of socialisation in multicultural space is extremely high. Its significance is connected with the processes of globalisation and increasing migration. In this situation, the sociocultural and, especially, linguistic identity can be analysed as a bonding and bridging social capital that helps or complicates socialisation, depending on the specifics of the social situation. These assumptions were checked in the empirical research of the sociocultural and linguistic identity of the three groups of ethnic Germans: living in Russia, in the CIS and those who moved to Germany. The obtained data showed the bilingualism of the majority of respondents. At the same time, respondents from Russia and Germany consider both Russian and German languages as native, while respondents from the CIS no longer regard German as their mother language. For them, ethnic, not linguistic, identity is the most essential for socialisation in a multicultural society. For Germans living in Russia, on the contrary, both languages help in communication and in professional activity. For the Germans, who now live in Germany, the Russian language helps in understanding their sociocultural specifics. The future is associated with the German language. Our respondents answer that the main group of socialisation for them is the family. This was especially marked in the answers of respondents living in Russia and Germany. So, we can state that in a complex multicultural environment, the family for them is not only a group for socialisation, but also an object of identity, partly playing the role of psychological defence and support in a changing world. The obtained results also showed a tendency towards individualisation. For the respondents from Russia and Germany, the main identity groups, besides family, are professional groups and groups with common interests. Thus, it can be concluded that linguistic identity plays the role of both bonding and bridging social capital. In positive socialisation, sociocultural identity plays the role of a bridging rather than a connecting capital. Mixed linguistic identity is predominantly a positive moment, increasing socialisation in a multicultural environment.   Keywords: Socialisation, transitivity, identity, multicultural world.

Bypassing the Social Distance: International Catholic Community, Friendship, and Homemaking among Expatriates in Brno

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 80-105
Author(s):  
Milan Fujda ◽  
Michaela Ondrašinová ◽  
Miroslav Vrzal
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Social Integration ◽  
Social Distance ◽  
Social Ties ◽  
Bonding Social Capital ◽  
Bridging Social Capital ◽  
Highly Skilled Migrants ◽  
The Social ◽  
Bonding And Bridging

Abstract We analyze the role of intimate social ties and community in the processes of homemaking and social integration of highly skilled migrants who are members of the local international Catholic community in Brno, Czech Republic. We use the concepts of bonding and bridging social capital developed by Michael W. Foley and Dean R. Hoge and follow their attention to the effects of the worship communities’ organizational culture on migrants’ integration. In the article, we show that the Catholic community mediates its members’ homemaking efficiently by providing them with rich bonding social capital, generated through close social ties in the community. However, it does not provide them with enough bridging social capital, and their social integration, thus, remains restricted to the company of international fellows. We compare it with the strategies of homemaking used by settling migrants who have integrated more successfully into the Czech social environment.

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