Books On Social Capital

Social Capital

Gender And Social Capital (Gender Politics--Global Issues) Book by Brenda O'Neill, Elisabeth Gidengill, Elisabeth Gidengil (Editors)

Social Capital: Critical Perspectives Book by Stephen Baron, John Field, Tom Schuller

Achieving Success Through Social Capital: Tapping Hidden Resources in Your Personal and Business Networks Wayne E. Baker

Social Capital : A Theory of Social Structure and Action (Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences) Book by Nan Lin, Mark Granovetter

Knowledge and Social Capital: Foundations and Applications Book by Eric Lesser

Democracies in Flux: The Evolution of Social Capital in Contemporary Society Book by Robert D. Putnam (Editor)

Social Capital and Information Technology Book by Marleen Huysman, Volker Wulf (Editors)

Social Capital Versus Social Theory: Political Economy and Social Science at the Turn of the Millenium Book by Ben Fine

Creation and Returns of Social Capital: A New Research Program Henk Flap, Beate Volker (Editor)

Social Capital and Democratic Transition (Routledge Studies of Societies in Transition) Book by Gabriel Badescu, Eric M. Uslaner (Editor)

Conflict, Social Capital And Managing Natural Resources: A West African Case Study   Keith M. Moore (Editor)

Religion As Social Capital: Producing the Common Good Book by Corwin E. Smidt

In Good Company: How Social Capital Makes Organizations Work Don Cohen, Laurence Prusak

Players in the Public Policy Process : Nonprofits as Social Capital and Agents Book by Herrington J. Bryce

Generating Social Capital: Civil Society and Institutions in Comparative Perspective Book by Dietlind Stolle, Marc Hooghe

Social Capital (Key Ideas) Book by John Field

Black Social Capital: The Politics of School Reform in Baltimore, 1986-1998 Book by Marion Orr

Social Capital and Poor Communities Book by Susan Saegert (Editor), J. Phillip Thompson (Editor), Mark R. Warren (Editor)

Social Capital: A Multifaceted Perspective Book by Ismail Serageldin, Partha Dasupta

The Creation And Destruction Of Social Capital: Entrepreneurship, Co-Operative Movements and Institutions Book by Gunnar Lind Haase Svendsen, Gert Tinggaard Svendsen

Brokerage and Closure: An Introduction to Social Capital Book by Ronald S. Burt

Social Capital Book by David Halpern - Social capital has become a buzzword among political and academic elites, though the term remains relatively unfamiliar to the general public

Social Capital And Entrepreneurship Book by Philip H. Kim, Howard E. Aldrich

Social Capital and Lifelong Learning Book by John Field

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Social Capital: Critical Perspectives Book by Stephen Baron (Editor), John Field (Editor), Tom Schuller (Editor)
Social capital - broadly, social networks, the reciprocities that arise from them, and the value of these for achieving mutual goals-has become an influential concept in debating and understanding the modern world.

Achieving Success Through Social Capital: Tapping Hidden Resources in Your Personal and Business Networks Book by Wayne E. Baker, Wayne E. Baker
Guides the reader through the process of evaluating, building, and using social capital, the resources available and through personal and business networks. The reader can discover why social capital is so important and how to make it work for a business.
Achieving Success Through Social Capital is your hands-on guide to success through building and using your social capital. You'll learn why rich social capital produces higher pay, faster promotions, better jobs, breakthrough ideas, new business opportunities, and profitable companies. Rich social capital can even make you luckier. You'll also learn why good networks are essential for your health and emotional well-being, and for a meaningful life even a longer life.

Social Capital : A Theory of Social Structure and Action (Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences) Book by Nan Lin, Mark Granovetter
Distinguishes the capital residing in social networks from economic, human, and cultural capital. In Social Capital Nan Lin meshes incoming network theory with social stratification and mobility theory. Social Capital is about the importance of using social connections and social relations in achieving goals.

Knowledge and Social Capital: Foundations and Applications Book by Eric Lesser
Social capital - the informal networks, trust and common understanding among individuals in an organization - determines major competitive advantages in today's networked economy. Knowledge and Social Capital explains how social capital can drive collaboration, reconcile an organization's internal and external labor markets, and improve organizational effectiveness. Articles helps readers understand how they can build and capitalize on their own organizations' social capital.
Explains how social capital can drive collaboration, reconcile an organization;s internal and external labor markets, and improve organizational effectiveness. Teaches core principles and important strategies to a range of executives. Softcover.

Democracies in Flux: The Evolution of Social Capital in Contemporary Society by Robert D. Putnam
In his national bestseller Bowling Alone, Robert Putnam illuminated the decline of social capital in the US, revealing how over the last quarter century we have tended to join fewer clubs, know our neighbors less, meet less frequently with friends, and even socialize less often with our families. Now, in Democracies in Flux, Putnam brings together a group of leading scholars who broaden his findings as they examine the state of social capital in eight advanced democracies around the world. Offering a panoramic look at social capital around the world, this book makes an important contribution to our understanding of these phenomena. It will interest anyone concerned with promoting civil society and vibrant social discourse.

Social Capital and Information Technology Book by Marleen Huysman, Volker Wulf (Editors)
The concept of social capital, or the value that can be derived from social ties created by goodwill, mutual support, shared language, common beliefs, and a sense of mutual obligation, has been applied to a number of fields, from sociology to management. It is only lately, however, that researchers in information technology and knowledge management have begun to explore the idea of social capital in relation to their fields.

Social Capital Versus Social Theory: Political Economy and Social Science at the Turn of the Millenium (Contemporary Political Economy) Book by Ben Fine
Ben Fine traces the origins of social capital through the work of Becker, Bourdieu and Coleman and comprehensively reviews the literature across the social sciences. The text is uniquely critical of social capital. The text addresses some major themes, including the shifting relationship between economics and other social sciences, the 'publish or perish' concept currently burdening scholarly integrity, and how a social science interdisciplinarity requires a place for political economy together with cultural and social theory.

Creation and Returns of Social Capital: A New Research Program Henk Flap, Beate Volker (Editors)
The idea of a social capital research program has become increasingly significant within the social sciences. This collection of essays considers integration and standardization of measurement instruments and research on social capital.

Social Capital and Democratic Transition (Routledge Studies of Societies in Transition) Book by Gabriel Badescu, Eric M. Uslaner (Editors), Eric Uslaner
The concept of social capital has been used by political scientists to explain both the transition to democracy in Eastern Europe and the decline of social cohesion in Western societies.

Conflict, Social Capital And Managing Natural Resources: A West African Case Study Keith M. Moore (Editor)
The book will be of significant interest to those working in the areas of rural sociology and development and agricultural, development and natural resource economics.

In Good Company: How Social Capital Makes Organizations Work
Don Cohen, Laurence Prusak

Players in the Public Policy Process : Nonprofits as Social Capital and Agents
Book by Herrington J. Bryce
The central contribution of this book is the articulation of a perspective of how nonprofits play these varied roles as social capital assets and agents for the public’s purposes and the subsequent theoretical, practical and managerial implications of this functional view.

Generating Social Capital: Civil Society and Institutions in Comparative Perspective
Book by Dietlind Stolle, Marc Hooghe

Social Capital (Key Ideas) Book by John Field
The term 'social capital' is a way of conceptualizing the intangible resources of community, shared values and trust upon which we draw in daily life. It has achieved considerable currency in the social sciences and has been taken up within politics and sociology as a means of explaining the decline of social cohesion and community values in many western societies.

Black Social Capital: The Politics of School Reform in Baltimore, 1986-1998 (Studies in Government and Public Policy) Book by Marion Orr
Deindustrialization, white flight, and inner city poverty have spelled trouble for Baltimore schools. Marion Orr now examines why school reform has been difficult to achieve there, revealing the struggles of civic leaders and the limitations placed on Baltimore's African-American community as each has tried to rescue a failing school system.
Examining the interplay between government and society, Orr presents the first systematic analysis of social capital both within the African-American community ("black social capital") and outside it where social capital crosses racial lines. Orr shows that while black social capital may have created solidarity against white domination in Baltimore, it hampered African-American leaders' capacity to enlist the cooperation from white corporate elites and suburban residents needed for school reform.
Orr examines social capital at the neighborhood level, in elite-level interactions, and in intergovernmental relations to argue that black social capital doesn't necessarily translate into the kind of intergroup coalition needed to bring about school reform.

Social Capital: A Multifaceted Perspective Book by Ismail Serageldin, Partha Dasupta
In this collection of essays, contributors debate the definition of social capital—-broadly understood as the effect social networks and shared attitudes can have on economic performance—and ask how the concept can be applied to development policy and analysis.
How do social capital theories help broaden our thinking about development--and how does this hard-to-quantify concept make analyzing development efforts more difficult? What impact do informal social networks have on the state and other formal organizations? What role does trust play within large organizations? These are some of the questions that the contributors debate. They also suggest methods for measuring social capital and offer examples from China, the Czech Republic, India, Italy, the Republic of Korea, Russia, Tanzania, and Ukraine.

The Creation And Destruction Of Social Capital: Entrepreneurship, Co-Operative Movements and Institutions Book by Gunnar Lind Haase Svendsen, Gert Tinggaard Svendsen
This book will contribute substantially to academic and popular debates on social capital and will be an invaluable source of reference for all social scientists. It will particularly appeal to students and scholars of public policy, economics, sociology, political science, anthropology and history.

Brokerage and Closure: An Introduction to Social Capital Book by Ronald S. Burt
Social capital, the advantage created by location in social structure is a critical element in business strategy. Who has it, how it works and how to develop it have become key questions as markets, organizations and careers become more and more dependent on informal discretionary relationships. Ronald S. Burt builds on his celebrated work in this area to explore the nature of brokerage and closure. Brokerage is the activity of people who live at the intersecting of social worlds, who have a vision advantage of seeing and developing good ideas, an advantage which can be seen in their compensation, recognition and the responsibility they're entrusted with in comparison to their peers.

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