This proposal describes a project that Richelle Winkler will pursue as part of her dissertation research in conjunction with a group of community residents in the Brainerd Lakes Area. The goal of this proposal is to summarize the research goals, methods, budget, and expected products. This proposal is negotiable in the sense that any agreed upon project should meet both the needs of the researc...

Does raising non-adult children facilitate or restrict access to social capital as network resources? Using data from a national sample of adults in the United States, I do not find evidence for the direct effect of parenthood on the three dimensions of social capital (diversity, extensity, and quality), but instead I find evidence for its interaction effects on the quality of social capital. T...

BACKGROUND The need for a more consistent approach to the conceptualisation and measurement of social capital was one of the key conclusions from the joint ONS/Home Office Social Capital Workshop held in November 2001. The literature review prepared for the workshop showed that many government surveys were including questions of a social capital nature. However, a variety of approaches were bei...

This study explores the impact of social capital on innovation by constructing a more general measure of social capital indicator consisting of generalized and institutional trust, associational activities and civic norms. We test the hypothesis that social capital has a positive impact on innovation at the national level. After controlling for R&D expenditure and human capital there is a posit...

This paper explores the influence path of social capital on knowledge transfer performance, on the basis of extensive literature review. And the research results confirm that social capital has effects on knowledge transfer performance with organizational learning as the mediating role.

For some time, it has been evident that individuals monitor the performance of the president, Congress, and the economy and adjust their trust of the government either up or down depending on what they observe. But given that trust has never returned to the levels witnessed in the 1950’s and 1960’s, despite improved government performance, some other phenomenon must contribute to the movement o...