This paper discusses the ability of an open source firm and its surrounding ecosystem to adapt to changing conditions in an effort to survive. Using an explanatory case study methodology, we examine a series of stresses that occurred over the life of a single professional open source ecosystem as its members attempted to adjust to the resultant impacts upon the available capital portfolios and ...

A project team, set up to design and implement an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system, is essentially tasked with integrating knowledge distributed across an organization. This suggests that the social capital of members will be important. In the case study project, however, team members used their social capital to further their own personal goals rather than the ERP project goals. Moreo...

In the knowledge based economy, organisations are making every effort to accumulate their intellectual capital (IC) because their future prosperity tends to depend on IC instead of traditional physical assets. Therefore, they are willing to audit and measure IC and make it transparent to management. Since intellectual capital is hard to measure using standard accounting practices a simple metho...

A project team, set up to design and implement an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system, is essentially tasked with integrating knowledge distributed across an organization. This suggests that the social capital of members will be important. In the case study project, however, team members used their social capital to further their own personal goals rather than the ERP project goals. Moreo...

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The differences between the information used for the pre-investment valuation and the valuation methods used by venture capital investors in five countries (US, UK, France, Belgium and Holland) are empirically studied. The analysis is based on postal questionnaire surveys of representative samples of senior venture capitalists in each country. Differences are found, which may be attributed to t...

Network processes have long been implicated in the reproduction of labor market inequality, but it remains unclear whether white male networks provide more social capital resources than female and minority networks. Analysis of nationally representative survey data reveals that people in white male networks receive twice as many job leads as people in female/minority networks. White male networ...

The author describes the methodology for assessing the suitability of tax and legal environment for the development of private equity and venture capital industry, designed by the European Venture Capital Association (EVCA). She applies this method to assess the tax and legal environment in Croatia. The results reveal that, according to the total composite score, Croatia belongs to the group of...

This article advances a communicative approach to social capital that views communication as the fundamental source of societal integration. We contend that integration occurring at the system level via news consumption and at the individual level via interpersonal discussion is amplified through ties at the community level. This cross-level interaction is theorized to encourage civic engagemen...