The study of five types of organizational networks aims to understand how knowledge sharing and social capital are related together to management of organizational networks. Our research questions were (1) what are the enablers and obstacles for knowledge sharing, (2) what are the connections between enablers and obstacles of knowledge sharing and dimensions of social capital, and (3) what are ...

This paper considers the theory of social capital and volunteerism in an online gaming community, the Internet Chess Club (ICC). We discuss how increased social capital provides broad classes of benefits to the participants of the network and suggest how volunteerism can be expected to increase the social capital of a network. We present survey data collected from 62 members of ICC to examine h...

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In recent years, microblogging has emerged as a disruptive new force in social networking. Unlike the bi-directional relationships on traditional SNS sites (such as Facebook), connections on most microblogging platforms (such as Twitter) is one-directional, by which users choose others to “follow” and each user has her own group of “followers”. Such asymmetric relationships are particularly ubi...

Using data from the Tanzania Social Capital and Poverty Survey (SCPS), a large scale survey which asked individuals about the extent and characteristics of their associational activity and their trust in various institutions and individuals, we construct a measure of “social capital” in rural Tanzania. By matching this measure of social capital with data on household incomes in the same village...

Facebook was initially designed as a social tool representing a person‟s social life, yet today it functions as a platform synthesizing all facets of life, including the work context. Within the frame of the social capital theory, a survey was conducted measuring Facebook users‟ experience, perceptions of privacy and career impression management. Results found that higher Facebook experience wa...