The Network Structure Of Social Capital
Item
- Title
- The Network Structure Of Social Capital
- Abstract/Description
- This is a review of argument and evidence on the connection between social networks and social capital. My summary points are three: (1) Research and theory will better cumulate across studies if we focus on the network mechanisms responsible for social capital effects rather than trying to integrate across metaphors of social capital loosely tied to distant empirical indicators. (2) There is an impressive diversity of empirical evidence showing that social capital is more a function of brokerage across structural holes than closure within a network, but there are contingency factors. (3) The two leading network mechanisms can be brought together in a productive way within a more general model of social capital. Structural holes are the source of value added, but network closure can be essential to realizing the value buried in the holes.
- Author/creator
- Burt, Ronald S.
- Date
- In publication
- Research in Organizational Behavior
- Volume
- 22
- Pages
- 345-423
- Resource type
- en Background/Context
- Medium
- en Print
- Background/context type
- en Conceptual
- Open access/free-text available
- en No
- Peer reviewed
- en Yes
- Language
- en
- ISSN
- 0191-3085
- Citation
- Burt, R. S. (2000). The Network Structure Of Social Capital. Research in Organizational Behavior, 22, 345–423. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0191-3085(00)22009-1
- Cited in
- Critical Social Network Analysis as a Method for Examining How Power Mediates Improvement Efforts
- Abbreviation
- Research in Organizational Behavior
- Item sets
- Handbook Chapter 17 Citations
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