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Social capital at the firm level
Social
Capital at the firm level
This section deals with the role of social
capital at the firm level. Particular attention is given to the
role of social networks of firms in reducing transactions costs
and expanding the economic activity. Considered studies address
also topics like the influence of social interactions and social
capital on total productivity, on labour productivity (with particular
regard to motivational factors and to the consequences of human
capital's accumulation in the firm's context), on the diffusion
of knowledge and innovation.
Essential readings
Further readings
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Essential Readings
Bowles, S., Carpenter, J. Gintis,
H. (2001), Mutual
Monitoring in Teams: Theory and Evidence on the Importance of Residual
Claimancy and Reciprocity, University of Massachussets, mimeo.
Cohen, D., Prusak, L. (2001), In
Good Company: How Social Capital Makes Organizations Work, Harvard,
Harvard Business School Press.
Fafchamps, M., Minten, B. (1999), Social
Capital and the Firm: Evidence from Agricultural Trade, Social
Capital Initiative Working Paper No. 21, World Bank.
Greve, A., Benassi, C. (2003), Exploring
the contribution of human and social capital to productivity,
Paper prepared for Hawaii International Conference On System Sciences,
HICSS-37, January 5-8, 2004, Big Island, Hawaii.
Leonard, J.S., Levine, D. (2004),
Diversity,
Discrimination, and Performance, University of California, Haas
School of Business, mimeo.
Lesser, E. (ed) (2000), Knowledge
and Social Capital: Foundations and Applications, Boston, Butterworth
Heinemannn.
Sabatini, Fabio (2006), Does
Social Capital Improve Labour Productivity in Small and Medium Enterprises?,
Working Paper No. 92, University of Rome La Sapienza, Department
of Public Economics.
Svendsen, G.L.H, Svendsen, G.T.
(2005), The
Creation and Destruction of Social Capital. Entrepreneurship, Co-operative
Movements and Institutions, Cheltenham, UK, Edward Elgar Publishing.
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Further Readings
Agapitova, N. (2003), The
Impact of Social Networks on Innovation and Industrial Development:
Social Dimensions of Industrial Dynamics in Russia, Paper presented
at the DRUID Summer Conference 2003 on Creating,
Sharing and Transferring Knowledge: The Role of Geographical Configurations,
Institutional Settings and Organizational Contexts.
Aldrich, H., Zimmer, C. (1986), Entrepreneurship
through social networks, in Sexton, D., Smiler, R. (eds), The Art
and Science of Entrepreneurship, 3-23, New York, Ballinger.
Ahuja, G. (2000), Collaboration networks,
structural holes, and innovation: A longitudinal study, Administrative
Science Quarterly, 45: 425-455.
Annen, K. (2003), Incentives
for Social Capital Investments: Evidence for The Small-Firm Textile
Sector in La Paz and El Alto, Bolivia, Washington University
in St. Louis.
Annen, K. (2004), Social
Capital Return in the Urban Informal Sector in Developing Countries:
Micro Evidence from Small Textile Producers in Bolivia, Department
of Economics, University of Guelph.
Arrighetti, A., Serravalli, G.,
Wolleb, G. (2001), Social
Capital, Institutions and Collective Action Between Firms, Paper
presented at the EURESCO Conference "Social Capital: Interdisciplinary
Perspectives", Exeter, 15-20 September 2001.
Barr, A. (1998), Enterprise
Performance and the Functional Diversity of Social Capital,
Working Paper Series 98-1, Institute of Economics and Statistics,
University of Oxford.
Batjargal, B. (2000) Social capital
and entrepreneurial performance in Russia: a panel study, No 352
in William Davidson Institute Working Papers Series.
Belussi, F. (2002), Fiducia
e capitale sociale nelle reti di impresa, paper preparato per
il Convegno "Il valore economico delle relazioni interpersonali",
Milano, 2002.
Beugelsdijk, S., Noorderhaven, N.G.,
Koen, C.I. (2003), Organizational
Culture, Alliance Capabilities and Social Capital, Tilburg University,
mimeo.
Birley, S. (1985), The role of networks
in the entrepreneurial process, Journal of Business Venturing, 1:107-117.
Borgatti, S.P., Cross, R. (2003), A
Relational View of Information Seeking and Learning in Social Networks,
Management Science, Vol. 49, No. 4, April 2003, 432–445.
Bosma, N., Van Praag, M., Thurik, R,
deWit, G. (2002), The value of human and social capital investments
for the business performance of start-ups, No 02-027/3 in Tinbergen
Institute Discussion Papers.
Bottazzi, G, Cefis, E., Dosi, G. (2002), Corporate
growth and industrial structures: some evidence from the Italian
manufacturing industry, Industrial and Corporate Change, Vol.
11, 705-723.
Carpenter, J., Seki, E. (2005),
Do
Social Preferences Increase Productivity? Field Experimental Evidence
from Fishermen in Toyama Bay, IZA Discussion Paper No. 1697,
Institute for the Study of Labour.
Carpenter, J., Seki, E. (2005),
Competitive
Work Environments and Social Preferences: Field Experimental Evidence
from a Japanese Fishing Community, IZA Discussion Paper No.
1691, Institute for the Study of Labour.
Chaminade, C., Roberts, H. (2002),
Social
Capital as a Mechanism. Connecting Knowledge within and across firms,
paper presented at the third European Conference on Organizational
Knowledge, Learning and Capabilities, Athens, Greece, April 2002.
Cohen, S.S., Fields, G. (2000),
Social
Capital and Capital Gains in Silicon Valley, in Lesser, E. (ed),
Knowledge
and Social Capital: Foundations and Applications, Boston, Butterworth
Heinemannn.
Cooke, P. (2003), Networks
and Hierarchies in Bioscientific Knowledge Management, Paper
presented at the DRUID Summer Conference 2003 on Creating,
Sharing and Transferring Knowledge: The Role of Geographical Configurations,
Institutional Settings and Organizational Contexts.
Cooke, P., Clifton, N. (2002), Social
Capital, and Small and Medium Enterprise Performance in the United
Kingdom, Paper Prepared for Workshop on Entrepreneurship in
The Modern Space-Economy: Evolutionary and Policy Perspectives,
Timbergen Institute, Amsterdam.
Craig, B., Pencavel, J. (1995),
Participation and Productivity: a Comparison of Worker Cooperatives
and Conventional firms in the Plywood Industry, Brookings Papers:
Microeconomics, 121-160.
Dakhli, M., De Clercq, D. (2003),
Human
capital, social capital, and innovation: a multi-country study,
Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School Working Paper Series 2003-18.
Doeringer, P. Terkla, D. (2003),
Human
Capital Social Capital and Industrial Performance: Comparisons Among
New U.S. Manufacturing Plants, Paper presented at the DRUID
Summer Conference 2003 on Creating,
Sharing and Transferring Knowledge: The Role of Geographical Configurations,
Institutional Settings and Organizational Contexts.
Farrell, H., Knight, J. (2004),
Trust,
Institutions and Institutional Change: Industrial Districts and
the Social Capital Hypotesis, mimeo.
Fountain, J.E. (1997), Social
Capital: A Key Enabler of Innovation in Science and Technology,
in Branscomb, L.M., Keller, J. (eds), Investing
in Innovation: Toward A Consensus Strategy for Federal Technology
Policy,
Cambridge, The MIT Press.
Fountain, J.E. (2000), Social
Capital and Technological Innovation. Chap. 7 in Technology Management
Handbook, 340-347, Boca Raton, FL, Chapman and Hall CRC Press.
Gelauff, G.M.M. (2003), Social
Capital: an Indispensable Asset in the Knowledge-based Economy,
paper for the Workshop Social
Capital and Economic Development at the University of
Tilburg, 2003.
Graber, G., Stark, D. (1997), Organizing
Diversity: Evolutionary Theory, Network Analysis and Postsocialism,
Regional Studies, Vol. 31, No. 5, 533-544.
Greve, A., Salaff, J. (2001), The
development of corporate social capital in complex innovation processes,
Research in the Sociology of Organizations: Social Capital of Organizations.
Vol. 18: 107-134, 2001. Editors: S.M. Gabbay and R.Th.A.J. Leenders.
Healy, T. (2001), Networks
and Social Norms Can Be Good for Business: the Role of Social Capital
in Organizations, paper presented at the Conference "Social
Capital: Interdisciplinary Perspectives", University of Exeter,
2001.
Isham, J. (2000), The
Effect of Social Capital on Technology Adoption: Evidence from Rural
Tanzania, IRIS Center Working Paper No. 235.
Kingsley, G., Malecki, E.J. (2004), Networking
for Competitiveness, Small Business Economics, 23 (1): 71-84,
August 2004.
Landry, R., Amara, N., Lamari,
M. (2000), Does
Social Capital Determine Innovation? To What Extent?, Paper
presented at the 4th International Conference on Technology, Policy
and Innovation, Curitiba, Brazil, August 28-31 2000.
Maskell, P. (2000), Social Capital,
Innovation and Competitivness, in Baron, S. (ed), Social
Capital: Critical Perspectives, Oxford, Oxford University Press.
McDermott, G.A. (2003), The
Political Foundations of Inter-Firm Networks and Social Capital:
A Post-Communist Lesson, University of Pennsylvania, Wharton
School, Reginald H. Jones Center Working Paper No. 2003-05.
Nahapiet, J., Ghosal, S. (2000),
Social Capital, Intellectual Capital and the Organizational Advantage,
in Lesser, E. (ed), Knowledge
and Social Capital: Foundations and Applications, Boston, Butterworth
Heinemannn.
Parker, P. (2002), Social
Capital and Knowledge Development in Small Firms, Department
of Business Administration, Kristianstat University, mimeo.
Patton, D., Kenney, M. (2003),
Innovation
and Social Capital in Silicon Valley, BRIE Working Paper 155,
University of California, Davis.
Perrault, C., Brenner, G.A., Menzies, T.V., Filion, L.J.,
Ramangalahy, C. (2003), Social
Capital and Ethnic Business Performance: Entrepreneurs from Four
Ethnic Groups in Canada, University of Montreal Business School,
Working Paper 2003-05.
Pencavel, J. (2002), Worker
Participation: Lessons from the Worker Co-ops of the Pacific North-West,
Russel Sage Foundation.
Platteau, J.P., Seki, E. (2001),
Community
Arrangements to Overcome Market Failures: Pooling Groups in Japanese
Fisheries, in Hayami, M., Hayamii, Y. (eds), Communities
and Markets in Economic Development, Oxford, Oxford University
Press.
Powell, W.W. (1998), Learning from
collaboration: Knowledge and networks in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical
industries, California Management Review, 40: 228-240.
Powell, W.W., Koput, K.W., Smith-Doerr,
L., Owen-Smith, J. (1999), Network
Position and Firm Performance: Organizational Returns to Collaboration
in Biotechnology Industry.
Prescott, E.C., Visscher, M.
(1980), Organizational Capital, in “Journal of Political Economy”,
88, 3, pp. 446-461.
Robins, J., Atuahene-Gima, K.
(2003), The
Effects of External Relationships on Innovative Activity within
Firms, City University of Hong Kong, mimeo.
Ritson, M., Zbaracki, M., Dutta,
S., Levy, D., Bergen, M. (2002), The
Three Capitals of Pricing – Human, Systems and Social Capital,
Unpublished paper.
Rob, R., Zemsky, P. (2000), Social
Capital, Corporate Culture and Incentive Intensity, University
of Pennsylvania and INSEAD, Unpublished Paper.
Robins, J., Atuahene-Gima, H., (2003), The
Effects of External Relationships on Innovative Activity within
Firms, City University of Hong Kong, Department of Management,
Working Paper 2003-002.
Sausgruber, R. (2005), Testing
for Team Spirit - An Experimental Study, University of Innsbruck,
Department of Economics, mimeo.
Schiavone, F. (2004), Division
of Labour, Social Networks and Intangible Resources: The Italian
Case of Network Business Creation, Paper presented at the Conference
High Technology Small Firms, May, 2004, University of Twente.
Sorenson, O., Stuart, T.E. (2001),
Syndication
Networks and the Spatial Distribution of Venture Capital Investments,
American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 106, No. 6 (May 2001): 1546–88.
Swart, J., Kinnie, N. (2003),
Sharing knowledge
in knowledge-intensive firms, Human Resource Management Journal,
Vol. 13 No. 2, 2003, 60-75.
Talmud, I., Mesch, G.S. (1997),
Market
Embeddedness and Corporate Instability: The Ecology of Inter-industrial
Networks, Social Science Research No. 26, 419-441.
Todeva, E., Knoke, D. (2001),
Strategic
Alliances and Corporate Social Capital, Kölner Zeitschrift
für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie, Special Issue on Sociology
of Organizations.
Tomer, J.F. (1987), Organizational
Capital: The Path to Higher Productivity and Well-Being, New
York, Praeger.
Tomer, J.F. (1999), The
Human Firm: A Socio-Economic Analysis of Its Behavior and Potential
in a New Economic Age, New York, Routledge Publishing Co.
Tomer, J.F. (2002), The Firm
Is Human: It Is Not a Neoclassical Machine,” Indicators, 1(3),
Summer 2002.
Schuller, T. (2001), The
Complementary Roles of Human and Social Capital, in The
Contribution of Human and Social Capital to Sustained Economic Growth
and Well-Being, International Symposium Report edited
by the OECD and HRDC.
Spence, L.J., Schmidpeter, R.
(2003), SMEs,
Social Capital and the Common Good, Journal of Business Ethics,
Vol. 45, No. 1-2, 93-108.
Yli-Renko, H., Autio, E., Tontti, V.
(2000), Social
Capital, Knowledge and the International Growth of Technology-Based
New Firms, Helsinki Institute of Technology Institute of Strategy
and International Business Working Paper Series 2000/4.
Van den Bulte, C., Lievens, A.,
Moenart, R.K. (2001), Market
knowledge, social capital and absorptive capacity: An analysis of
knowledge spillovers within marketing departments, The Wharton
School, University of Pennsylvania, Unpublished Paper.
Westlund, H. (2003), Implications
of Social Capital for Business in the Knowledge Economy: Theoretical
Considerations, Presented for the International Forum on Economic
Implication of Social Capital, held by the Economic and Social Research
Institute Cabinet Office, Japan, in Tokyo on 24 and 25th March 2003.
Westlund, H., Nillson, E. (2003),
Measuring
enterprises' investments in social capital: A pilot study, Paper
presented at the 43rd Congress of the European Regional Science
Association, Jyväskylä, Finland, 27-30 August 2003.
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