Social Capital theory has tended to treat social cohesion as a mere aggregation of individual and community level characteristics, ignoring the long tradition of theory on social solidarity and social cohesion at the societal level. However, the key indicators of social capital – associational membership and social trust – do not co-vary cross nationally and societies rich in community level so...

In view of today’s collaborative and knowledge-intensive nature of IT services, this study reexamines the antecedents of user satisfaction with IT services. We conceive IT service provision as an interactive, relational process by which users and IT units engage in service coproduction. Drawing on social capital theory, we develop a research model to examine relational factors influencing user ...

The popularity of the Internet has created the growth of B2B e-marketplaces. In spite of the many advantages of B2B e-marketplaces, a majority of buyers are still reluctant to maintain a long-term relationship with B2B e-marketplaces. In order to overcome this problem, we apply social capital theory to propose a research framework for understanding how virtual community play an important role i...

This paper addresses the issue of social capital analysis for collaborative networks. The objective of the research project is to understand how collaborative networks can be influenced considering the perspective of social capital. Initially, the authors identified and analyzed relevant works that were developed in the collaborative network field, focusing on the social capital approach. There...

T introduce new products, firms often use knowledge from other organizations. Drawing on social capital theory and the relational view of the firm, we argue that geographically localized social capital affects a firm’s ability to innovate through various external channels. Combining data on social capital at the regional level, with a large-scale data set of the innovative activities of a repre...

Nowadays, the structure of societies has an interwoven social space of various forms of capital that distinguishes social situations hierarchically. In this regard, cultural capital plays an important role as a bridge between economy and culture and causes the family, as a cultural and social variable, to have significant effects on socialization of the children. Therefore, the attitudes and be...

Nowadays, chronic non-communicable diseases have become a significant social problem of healthcare which threatens human health along with their rapid progress of morbidity and mortality. How to develop potential, intangible resources to compensate for insufficient physical resources is urgent. By analyzing literature reporting the association between social capital and chronic non-communicable...