Individual social capital: Accessibility and mobilization of resources embedded in social networks

Pena-López, Atilano; Santos, José Manuel Sánchez

doi:10.1016/j.socnet.2016.11.003

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“…Social capital is, however, not exclusively a collective resource of a community; it is an individual and household resource as well (Coleman, ; Pena‐López & Sánchez‐Santos, ; Portes, ; Van der Gaag & Snijders, ; Van der Gaag & Webber, ). Regarding individual social capital, Van der Gaag and Snijders (, p. 155) note: it is “[t]he collection of resources owned by the members of an individual's social network, which may become available to the individual as a result of the history of their relationships.” Thus, while social capital may be available for communal use because each member of the community can lay claim to it, social capital can also be measured at the individual level (Van der Gaag & Snijders, ; Van der Gaag & Webber, ).…”

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“…For example, communities develop social capital that enables economic development by taping into collective resources, assets, and information that increase community response to emergencies (Magsino, ; Nakagawa & Shaw, ; Putnam, ). However, social capital can also be operationalized and measured at the household level (Pena‐López & Sánchez‐Santos, ; Portes, ; Van der Gaag & Webber, ). Households that are connected with relevant people who can contribute resources, such as information to them report higher levels of household social capital (Van der Gaag & Webber, ).…”

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Creating Emergency Prepared Households—What Really Are the Determinants of Household Emergency Preparedness?

Nukpezah¹

2018

Risk Hazard & Crisis Pub Pol

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We draw on social capital and social vulnerability explanations to investigate the determinants of household emergency preparedness using data from the 2008 General Social Survey (GSS) and multivariate ordinal logistic regression. We develop an ordinal-level scale for household emergency preparedness. We also create indices for individual social capital and risk perception, which correlate with higher levels of household emergency preparedness. We show that race and gender per se do not make households more or less prepared for emergencies because these variables are proxies for socioeconomic inequalities in society. Our study provides insights into household emergency preparedness and direction for policymaking.

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Creating Emergency Prepared Households—What Really Are the Determinants of Household Emergency Preparedness?

Nukpezah¹

2018

Risk Hazard & Crisis Pub Pol

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“…Social capital theory generally holds that individuals' or organizations' networks of relationships can be considered as valuable resources that facilitate collective actions (Adler & Kwon, 2002;Inkpen & Tsang, 2005;Pillai, Hodgkinson, Kalyanaram, & Nair, 2017), providing them with "collectively-owned capital" which entitles them to credit in the various senses of the word (Bourdieu, 1986, p. 249). From sociology, social capital has attracted considerable scholarly attention across various social sciences disciplines to study different social relations at different levels (Kwon & Adler, 2014;Nahapiet & Ghoshal, 1998;Portes, 1998) ranging from the macro-level (i.e., nations) (Fukuyama, 2001), through the meso-level (e.g., communities (Putnam, 1995); networks (Burt, 1992); groups (Oh, Labianca, & Chung, 2006); and interorganizational relationships (Inkpen & Tsang, 2005)) to the microlevel (i.e., individuals) (Pena-López & Sánchez-Santos, 2017). In business and management research, social capital has also occupied a prominent place (Kwon & Adler, 2014;Lee, 2009), where it has been applied to understand management and organizational phenomena at different level of analysis (Payne, Moore, Griffis, & Autry, 2011).…”

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Social capital in buyer-supplier relationships: A review of antecedents, benefits, risks, and boundary conditions

Alghababsheh

Gallear

2020

Industrial Marketing Management

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The concept of social capital advocates that the goodwill available from relations is a valuable resource that can facilitate collective actions. Although social capital has recently gained momentum in the buyer-supplier relationship (BSR) literature, there is a surprising lack of consensus about its antecedents, benefits, risks, and boundary conditions in such relationships. To address this void, a systematic literature review of seventy articles published in peer-reviewed journals between 2002 and 2018 was undertaken. The review identified and discusses two types of antecedents that can give rise to social capital in BSRs, namely intrafirm-level and relationship-level antecedents (i.e., structural and relational). It reveals that social capital can lead to a variety of benefits, in the form of direct performance improvements (e.g., operational) and relationship benefits (e.g., knowledge sharing), however that these benefits may vary depending on a number of boundary conditions in BSRs (e.g., contract specificity). The review also highlights that although social capital can generate benefits, it can also lead to risks that can undermine the performance and evolution of BSRs (e.g., reduced exploratory learning), suggesting a 'double-edged sword' effect. The paper concludes by summarizing current research gaps and outlining promising directions for future research.

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“…Many studies report that people with immigrant background have lower access than people with non-immigrant background (e.g. Côté et al 2019;Majerski 2019;Pena-López & Sánchez-Santos 2017;Seghers, Boone & Van Avermaet 2019). Others, however, report equal -or even better -access among those with immigrant background.…”

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Access to Social Capital and Educational Returns for Children of Immigrants: Evidence from Three Swedish Studies

Nygård

Behtoui

2020

Nordic Journal of Migration Research

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In this article, we study whether social capital contributes to ethnic inequality in education or whether there is evidence of counter-stratification. We use data from three surveys of Swedish ninth-graders in different contexts to fit regression models for access to social capital and educational returns. Our results show that students with parents from Asia or Southeast Europe had equal or better access to social capital, compared to children with at least one parent born in Sweden. Results for children with African background were mixed. Regarding educational outcomes, we found similar rates of returns from social capital across groups. Better access to social capital thus seems to buffer against disadvantages for some, but not all, groups.

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Individual social capital: Accessibility and mobilization of resources embedded in social networks

Cited by 55 publications

References 22 publications

Creating Emergency Prepared Households—What Really Are the Determinants of Household Emergency Preparedness?

Creating Emergency Prepared Households—What Really Are the Determinants of Household Emergency Preparedness?

Social capital in buyer-supplier relationships: A review of antecedents, benefits, risks, and boundary conditions

Access to Social Capital and Educational Returns for Children of Immigrants: Evidence from Three Swedish Studies

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