Organizational Social Capital and Employment Practices

Leana, Carrie R.; Buren, Harry J. Van

doi:10.5465/amr.1999.2202136

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“…To achieve sustainability, it is critical to encourage positive attitudes and behaviors among employees, because employees are the key to the success of an organization (Leana & Van Buren, 1999). Through conducting a nationwide survey using U.S. fashion retail employees as the sampling framework, our study revealed that the ethical climate of an organization indeed positively affects employees' OCB, consistent with previous studies in non-fashion retail organizations (Ahmed & Machold, 2004).…”

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The effect of ethical climate and employees' organizational citizenship behavior on U.S. fashion retail organizations' sustainability performance

Lee

Ha‐Brookshire

2018

Corp Soc Responsibility Env

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To support businesses' efforts to improve sustainability performance, the role of employees should not be neglected, as organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) can improve the effectiveness and flexibility of a business as a whole. Given the potential impact of OCB on organizations' performance, this study investigated how the role of employees' OCB can help to achieve the triple bottom line of sustainability-financial, social and environmental performance. Using U.S. fashion retail employees as the sampling framework, a total of 278 datasets were used to test the hypothesized relationship. The results showed that the ethical climate of an organization indeed positively affects employees' OCB, consistent with previous studies in non-fashion retail organizations. Regardless of the size of the organization, the role of employees on the organization's overall sustainability performance was found to be highly important.These findings suggest that businesses should consider ethical climate to enhance sustainability through employees' OCB.

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The effect of ethical climate and employees' organizational citizenship behavior on U.S. fashion retail organizations' sustainability performance

Lee

Ha‐Brookshire

2018

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“…Luczak et al (2010) suggest that successful business owner possesses a positive pattern of social networking behavior and these behaviors aids the owners in their acquisition of scarce resources needed to grow. According to Leana and Buren (1999), these effects are possible because there are two underlying dimensions: associability and trust (Leana & Van Buren, 1999). Associablity implies that the individual can achieve their personal goal through the efforts and participation to meet group goals.…”

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Social Capital as a Source of Business Advantages for a Woman Entrepreneur in the Context of Small-size Business

Lee¹

2015

ASS

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Social capital can be defined as the totality of resources by virtue of possessing social ties. Grounded along the previous research, this research examines the relation between the social capital of woman entrepreneurs and their small companies' market performance mediated by competitive advantages. A survey of 257 entrepreneurs who is woman in Korea found that structural social capital and cognitive, social capital positively influence both differentiation advantage and cost advantage. The empirical results also indicate that those advantages affect market performance significantly. However, the impacts of relational social capital are not significant.The main theoretical contribution of this study is that it confirms the importance of social capital for woman entrepreneurs. It also supports the relevance of social capital in producing competitive advantages which lead to a better market performance. This study provides woman entrepreneurs in SMBs with managerial implications. The result shows that woman entrepreneurs can create business advantage by creating social ties and promoting social capital.

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“…(2) Relational social capital dimension describes the kind of personal relationships people have developed with each other through a history of interactions (Nahapiet & Ghoshal, 1998). One of key attribute in relational dimension is the level of trust among actors (Leana & Buren, 1999;Nahapiet & Ghoshal, 1998), Trusting relations facilitate collaborative behaviors and collective action in the absence of explicit mechanisms to foster and reinforce those behaviors (Coleman, 1990;Onyx & Bullen, 2000). (3) the third dimension, cognitive social capital refers to the fact that as individuals interact with one another as part of a collective, they are better able to develop a common set of goals, and a shared vision for the organization (Nahapiet & Ghoshal, 1998).…”

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Organizational Effectiveness: Social Capital and Competitive Advantage Approach

Putri¹,

Yuniawan²

2016

JDM

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This study is aimed at developing the model of organizational effectiveness in university through social capital and competitive advantage. The populations of this study are the head of study programs and the structural officials in some Universities in Semarang. In this case, We used Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) in AMOS 21.0 program as the analysis tool. The result of the study and model analysis showed that even though the social capital had significant positive influenced to the competitive advantage in the university, the improvement of social capital and competitive advantage at university could not improve the university organizational effectiveness. Then, between two factors which influenced the competitive advantage (internal social capital and external social capital), it is obtained that external social capital got the dominant influenced factor to competitive advantage. The managerial implication suggested the policies should focus on improving the quality of cooperative relationships with external parties in the university. Info Article

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Organizational Social Capital and Employment Practices

Cited by 1,340 publications

References 75 publications

The effect of ethical climate and employees' organizational citizenship behavior on U.S. fashion retail organizations' sustainability performance

The effect of ethical climate and employees' organizational citizenship behavior on U.S. fashion retail organizations' sustainability performance

Social Capital as a Source of Business Advantages for a Woman Entrepreneur in the Context of Small-size Business

Organizational Effectiveness: Social Capital and Competitive Advantage Approach

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