Social Capital as a Micro-Level Origin of Organizational Capabilities

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Kemper ◽  
Oliver Schilke ◽  
Malte Brettel
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Organizational Capabilities ◽  
Micro Level

Mothers, daughters, fathers and sons: intergenerational family social capital and inequalities in Guayaquil, Ecuador

2020 ◽  
pp. 095624782095902
Author(s):  
Caroline O N Moser
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Spatial Location ◽  
Longitudinal Case Study ◽  
Family Social Capital ◽  
Micro Level ◽  
Fathers And Sons ◽  
Over 40 Years

This paper describes the role of intergenerational processes in increasing or reducing multidimensional inequality in Indio Guayas, a low-income peripheral settlement in Guayaquil, Ecuador. It also examines the importance of family social capital, irrespective of spatial location, as against household social capital in these processes. This longitudinal case study included a dataset on trends from 1978 through 1992 to 2004, in-depth studies over the decades, and further comparative research in 2018. The anthropological narrative is provided by the voices of three women and their families over 40 years. In 2018, interviews my son and I undertook for the documentary film Calle K demonstrated the importance of family social capital in the intergenerational reciprocity among mothers, daughters, fathers and sons, while illustrating different intergenerational trajectories addressing the challenges of inequality at this micro-level. The postscript points to the likely critical importance of family social capital in the context of the appalling COVID-19 pandemic.

Intellectual capital role in ambidexterity emergence

2017 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 733-744 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susana Fernández-Pérez de la Lastra ◽  
Natalia García-Carbonell ◽  
Fernando Martín-Alcázar ◽  
Gonzalo Sánchez-Gardey
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Human Capital ◽  
Intellectual Capital ◽  
Organizational Capabilities ◽  
Integrative Model ◽  
Alternative View ◽  
Organizational Ambidexterity ◽  
Organizational Capital ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Multilevel Perspective

Purpose Considering the inconclusive results in the literature on the way organizations create ambidextrous organizational capabilities, the purpose of this paper is to present an alternative theoretical model of three different paths through which ambidexterity is built. From a multilevel perspective, the model describes how specific combinations of the facets of intellectual capital – human, social and organizational capital – can synergistically work to reach ambidexterity. Design/methodology/approach The study is based on main arguments from multilevel and intellectual capital literature. The multilevel approach allows the authors to consider a broader perspective to define three specific modes to create ambidextrous capabilities. Additionally, the intellectual capital literature completes the model, with the input (human capital), mechanisms (social capital) and the infrastructure (organizational capital) needed to develop ambidexterity. With the integration of both frameworks, the model explains how different types of ambidexterity are generated at diverse firm levels – individual, group and organizational, following different and complementary paths. Findings This research goes beyond the traditional arguments on how organizations develop simultaneously exploration and exploitation activities, proposing an integrative model of three complementary modes: path 1 (ambidexterity based on individual human capital); path 2 (ambidexterity through social capital) and path 3 (ambidexterity through organizational capital). These paths link organizational levels in organizations, showing the accumulative process of ambidexterity from a multilevel perspective. Originality/value The paper offers an alternative view expanding the ongoing discussion in the ambidexterity field. There is a lack of configurational models in the literature that describe, from a synergistic point of view, these complementary paths to achieving organizational ambidexterity. This approach contributes to explaining that not only individual ambidextrous human capital is needed to generate organizational ambidexterity, but also that specialist human capital could be a source of ambidexterity.

Social Capital as a Microlevel Origin of Organizational Capabilities

2013 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 589-603 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Kemper ◽  
Oliver Schilke ◽  
Malte Brettel
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Organizational Capabilities

Role of Social Capital Formation in Entrepreneurship Development among the Underprivileged Class of Odisha

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shiba C. Panda ◽  
Bharat Singh ◽  
Janmejoy Khuntia
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Entrepreneurial Orientation ◽  
Occupational Choice ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Social Conditions ◽  
Policy Initiative ◽  
The Social ◽  
Indian State ◽  
Micro Level

In this paper an attempt has been made to analyse such dimensions which support or otherwise impact the entrepreneurial environment that perpetuates prevalence of social capital leading to growth of entrepreneurship among the underprivileged class in an Indian State of Odisha. For example, various sources of owner’s capital, entrepreneurs affiliation to community groups, how existence of various forms of support system available for entrepreneurial orientation benefitted Govt.’s role vis-à-vis the social groups perception of existence of state support are discussed so as to derive the role and contribution of social capital for entrepreneurial orientation among the underprivileged class of Odisha particularly at the micro level. In a backward State like Odisha understanding of the existence of social conditions towards preference for entrepreneurship as an occupational choice would pave ways for policy initiative towards realization of widespread entrepreneurial engagement.

Social capital in social work disaster preparedness plans: The case of Finland

2017 ◽  
Vol 61 (6) ◽  
pp. 1054-1066 ◽  
Author(s):  
Merja Rapeli
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Disaster Preparedness ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Quantitative Content Analysis ◽  
Bonding Social Capital ◽  
Preparedness Plan ◽  
Quantitative Content ◽  
Micro Level

The aim of this study was to find out what can be learned from Finnish social work preparedness to develop future interventions and use of social capital in disasters. The data consisted of municipalities’ social sector’s disaster preparedness plan documents. Quantitative content analysis was used as the research method. The analysis was based on the concept of social capital and its forms of bonding, bridging, and linking. The results show that micro-level social work and bonding social capital were emphasized. Bridging and linking social work to disaster-related structures should be developed and social capital enhanced pre and post disasters.

Producing social capital as a development strategy: Implications at the micro-level

2015 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 170-185 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anastasia A. Seferiadis ◽  
Sarah Cummings ◽  
Marjolein B.M. Zweekhorst ◽  
Joske F.G. Bunders
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Development Strategy ◽  
Micro Level

The informal faces of the (neo-)ghetto: State confinement, formalization and multidimensional informalities in Italy’s Roma camps

2017 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 545-562 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isabella Clough Marinaro
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Meso Level ◽  
State Institutions ◽  
Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽  
Micro Level ◽  
Urban Marginality

This article extends Wacquant’s theorization of how state institutions confine, control and punish racialized poor groups, arguing that a central modality for managing urban marginality occurs through institutional generation of and participation in spheres of informality. Focusing on Italy’s segregation of Roma in ‘neo-ghettos’, this study explores how Roma’s confinement has been produced and modulated through contradictory policies, their ambiguous implementation by meso-level actors, and Roma’s micro-level navigation of ensuing arrangements. Drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork in Rome, it traces how ambivalent formalization drives have bifurcated the city’s very diverse Roma populations into two main sociospatial configurations, surveillance-intensive ‘villages’ and unauthorized micro-encampments, producing intertwined informalities in housing and employment that reinforce power inequalities despite Roma’s attempts to exert some agency and autonomy through building social capital within and beyond their communities. Variable informalities thus emerge as a core dimension through which resources and constraints are selectively apportioned as techniques of governmentality implemented by different institutions and actors.

scholarly journals The Role of the Social Capital of an Individual in the Formation of the Quality of Life

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-53
Author(s):  
Valentina A. Sushko ◽  
Gennadi B. Pronchev
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Social Capital ◽  
Adult Population ◽  
Social Activity ◽  
Sociological Research ◽  
The Social ◽  
Micro Level ◽  
The Individual

The article examines the influence of social capital on the quality of life of the Russian population and its particular components. The authors point to the problem associated with the social capital of the individual and determine the levels, namely the micro-level (interaction of individuals), meso-level (interaction with organizations), and macro-level (interaction with government bodies, etc.), which form the social capital. In the course of the analysis, the authors reveal the theoretical and methodological approaches of foreign and Russian scientists to the concept of social capital and its components. Based on empirical data from sociological research conducted in 2019, the article analyzes the structure of values of the adult population of Russia, highlights the characteristics of social capital and the degree of their influence on the formation of the quality of life. In the course of the research, the authors focus on the micro-level of the formation and influence of social capital, highlighting such components as a social activity and material security of an individual. In the course of the study, it was found that the social capital of a person affects the quality of a person's life, to a certain extent, forming the circle of his/her interests and values, as well as providing real opportunities for the realization of the interests of the individual and meeting his/her needs. The obtained results of the analysis can be useful for further study of the quality of life.

Social determinants of identity in communities: A social capital- and social categorization-based approach – findings from Latvia

2017 ◽  
Vol 57 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-98
Author(s):  
Guido Sechi ◽  
Jurģis Šķilters
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Social Identity Theory ◽  
Social Engagement ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Economic Wealth ◽  
Educational Differences ◽  
Highly Sensitive ◽  
Micro Level ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Cross Fertilization

The article investigates the relations, in the light of new paradigms of economic development, between trust and economic wealth at the micro level in the Republic of Latvia, by means of a structural equation modelling-based approach and a framework combining social capital and social identity theory, in a rationale of cross-fertilization between social and cognitive science. Results are also tested against control dimensions reflecting relevant divides in Latvian society (residence place dimensions; ethno-linguistic belongings; educational differences). General results support the hypothesis of the existence of a causal path connecting personal wealth, institutional trust, social engagement and trust towards people. Results are found to be highly sensitive to the geographical and educational divide (but not to the ethno-linguistic one).

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