Social Capital in Business

Edited by the late Kenneth W. Koput, formerly Associate Professor of Management and Organizations, Eller College of Management, University of Arizona and Joseph P. Broschak, Associate Professor of Management and Organizations, Eller College of Management, University of Arizona, US

‘Koput and Broschak have brought together in one place the key resources with which anyone interested in social capital, in all of its varieties, should be familiar. The introductory chapter is a comprehensive yet accessible primer on the formation, deployment, and consequences of social capital at multiple levels of analysis and also provides a clear agenda for future research. This volume is a “must have” for anyone working on social capital or related topics.’

• Contents:AcknowledgementsIntroductionKenneth W. Koput and Joseph P. BroschackPART ITHEORETICAL BACKGROUND 1. Nan Lin (1999), ‘Social Networks and Status Attainment’2. Ted Mouw (2003), ‘Social Capital and Finding a Job: Do Contacts Matter?’3. Ronald S. Burt (1999), ‘The Social Capital of Opinion Leaders’PART IIINTERNAL PRACTICES 4. Wenpin Tsai and Sumantra Ghoshal (1998), ‘Social Capital and Value Creation: The Role of Intrafirm Networks’5. Carrie R. Leana and Harry J. van Buren III (1999), ‘Organizational Social Capital and Employment Practices’6. Marc-David L. Seidel, Jeffrey T. Polzer and Katherine J. Stewart (2000), ‘Friends in High Places: The Effects of Social Networks on Discimination in Salary Negotiations’7. Martin Gargiulo and Mario Benassi (2000), ‘Trapped in Your Own Net? Network Cohesion, Structural Holes, and the Adaption of Social Capital’8. Scott E. Seibert, Maria L. Kraimer and Robert C. Liden (2001), ‘A Social Capital Theory of Career Success’9. Mark C. Bolino, William H. Turnley and James M. Bloodgood (2002), ‘Citizenship Behavior and the Creation of Social Capital in Organizations’10. Tatiana Kostova and Kendall Roth (2003), ‘Social Capital in Multinational Corporations and a Micro-Macro Model of its Formation’11. Ray Reagans, Ezra Zuckerman and Bill McEvily (2004), ‘How to Make the Team: Social Networks vs. Demography as Criteria for Designing Effective Teams’12. David Obstfeld (2005), ‘Social Networks, the Tertius Iungens Orientation, and Involvement in Innovation’PART IIIORGANIZATION-ENVIRONMENT RELATIONS 13. Richard A. D’Aveni and Idalene F. Kesner (1993), ‘Top Managerial Prestige, Power and Tender Offer Response: A Study of Elite Social Networks and Target Firm Cooperation During Takeovers’14. Johannes M. Pennings, Kyungmook Lee and Arjen van Witteloostuijn (1998), ‘Human Capital, Social Capital, and Firm Dissolution’15. Gautam Ahuja (2000), ‘Collaboration Networks, Structural Holes, and Innovation: A Longitudinal Study’16. Roberto M. Fernandez, Emilio J. Castilla and Paul Moore (2000), ‘Social Capital at Work: Networks and Employment at a Phone Center’17. Juan Florin, Michael Lubatkin and William Schulze (2003), ‘A Social Capital Model of High-Growth Ventures’18. Brian Uzzi and Ryon Lancaster (2003), ‘Relational Embeddedness and Learning: The Case of Bank Loan Managers and Their Clients’19. Joseph P. Broschak (2004), ‘Managers’ Mobility and Market Interface: The Effect of Managers’ Career Mobility on the Dissolution of Market Ties’20. Brian Uzzi and Ryon Lancaster (2004), ‘Embeddedness and Price Formation in the Corporate Law Market’21. Roberto M. Fernandez and Isabel Fernandez-Mateo (2006), ‘Networks, Race, and Hiring’Index