Intellectual capital reports usually consist of descriptions of various non-financial capital forms, such as for example “relational capital”. Considering relational capital as knowledge networks we explain the creation, transformation and re-use of knowledge with the help of the theory of social systems where knowledge is seen as a cooperative social construction. As a method for visualizing a...

Debate about the substitutability of manufactured, natural, human, and social capital is at the heart of sustainability theory. Sociology can contribute to this debate by examining the processes and mechanisms by which one form of capital is substituted for another. The authors examine the substitution among different forms of capitals at China’s Wolong Nature Reserve, where the consumption of ...

In this paper, we examine whether a failure-tolerant corporate culture spurs corporate innovation and increases firm value based on a sample of venture capital (VC) backed IPO firms. We develop a novel firm-specific measure of a failure-tolerant corporate culture hinging on the idea that the formation of corporate culture is largely determined by the attitudes and beliefs of its founders and ea...

Informal knowledge transfer among individuals is a crucial section of organization knowledge management. Informal knowledge transfer among individuals exists in the social relationships. After summarizing the theories of knowledge management, this paper proposed that knowledge transfer opportunities, motives and capacity are the decisive influential factors to informal knowledge transfer among ...

Academic researchers have attributed significant attention to the drivers of opportunistic behavior, yet our understanding of how opportunistic behavior can be mitigated remains relatively fragmented. Our investigation will focus on the social context and more specifically on the role of social capital in the deterrence of opportunistic behavior. Based on two qualitative case studies in the fin...

This study investigates the effectiveness of digital nudging for users’ social sharing of online platform content. In collaboration with a leading career and education online platform, we conducted a large-scale randomized experiment of digital nudging using website popups. Grounding on the Social Capital Theory and the individual motivation mechanism, we proposed and tested four kinds of nudgi...

BACKGROUND Mounting evidence linking aspects of social capital to health and wellbeing outcomes, in particular to reducing health inequities, has led to intense interest in social capital theory within public health in recent decades. As a result, governments internationally are designing interventions to improve health and wellbeing by addressing levels of social capital in communities. The ap...

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