Social Capital in Network Organizations

Abstract

In a dynamic network organization, member agents usually interact to coordinate their actions and to cooperate towards a common goal with which they have no previous experience. These relations allow them to produce a cohesive group to build and maintain their network. This paper will outline the effect of social capital on a network structure inside a network organization.

A Succinct Conceptualization of the Foundations for a Network Organization Paradigm

“…We have shown by a case study that the NO paradigm is applicable for modeling real world organizations (Alqithami, Haegele, and Hexmoor 2014). The future work will provide quantitative methods for operations in NOs that create social capital to help us guide the organization toward accomplishing its objectives; a short description is presented in (Alqithami and Hexmoor 2014b). An extended work will cover more details and applications that corroborate tenets of NOs in settings such as Net-centric warfare as well as grid-based disaster responses.…”