Social Capital And Information Technology

Author : Marleen Huysman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780262537223
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social Capital and Information Technology written by Marleen Huysman and published by . This book was released on 2004-06-18 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A multidisciplinary examination of the interplay between social capital--the value derived from social ties--and information technology.

Author : Marleen Huysman
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262083317
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social Capital and Information Technology written by Marleen Huysman and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A multidisciplinary examination of the interplay between social capital--the value derived from social ties--and information technology. The concept of social capital, or the value that can be derived from social ties created by goodwill, mutual support, shared language, common beliefs, and a sense of mutual obligation, has been applied to a number of fields, from sociology to management. It is only lately, however, that researchers in information technology and knowledge management have begun to explore the idea of social capital in relation to their fields. This collection of thirteen essays by computer scientists, sociologists, communication specialists, economists, and others presents a multidisciplinary look at this particular intersection of information technology and social science and the need to adopt a sociotechnical perspective.For the most part the contributors take a positive view of the interplay of social capital, knowledge sharing, and community building. Some essays look at specific instances, including the on-line and face-to-face relationships of a community of athletes, the building of social capital among Iranian NGOs, and the Internet-based communities created by the open-source movement, while others discuss more general ideas of civic and personal communities. The last four essays examine computer applications that augment social capital, including topic- and member-centered communications spaces such as the Expert Finder and the Loops system and virtual repositories of knowledge such as the Answer Garden and Pearls of Wisdom.

Author : Brychan Celfyn Thomas
Publisher : Business Science Reference
ISBN 13 : 9781522577232
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Innovation and Social Capital in Organizational Ecosystems written by Brychan Celfyn Thomas and published by Business Science Reference. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social capital as a concept, is a comparatively recent addition to the regional economic and innovation literature. Facets of social capital are generally acknowledged to include trust, collaboration, cooperation, bridging and bonding social network ties, and reciprocity. Nevertheless, forms of social capital such as bonding and bridging social capital, are less frequently explored in the literature. Innovation and Social Capital in Organizational Ecosystems breaks down the concept of innovation into its main components, which represent a spectrum of innovation activity from technology-based innovation to hidden and social innovation, in order to support executives concerned with innovation and social capital in different work communities and environments. Highlighting a range of topics including regional development, social innovation, network capital, and more, this book is ideally designed for researchers, professionals, students, policymakers, and practitioners.

Author : Roger Th.A.J. Leenders
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9780792385011
Total Pages : 586 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Corporate Social Capital and Liability written by Roger Th.A.J. Leenders and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1999-07-31 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What enables some organizations to routinely perform better than others? Conversely, what makes some firms consistently perform worse than their competitors? Within a single corporation, what enables some teams or individual firm members to outperform their counterparts? Through the concept of social capital, this book addresses these questions by studying the effects of relationship networks on the ability of corporate players (firms and their members) to attain their professional goals. The idea of social capital has become one of the premier approaches to studying networks in the context of organizations but the literature still lacks a conceptual paradigm that connects the various approaches, definitions and measure of social capital into an integrated analytical model. By explicitly connecting social networks to the goals of corporate players, this book provides a unifying framework to the study of social capital in an organizational context. In this volume `social capital' is defined as the resources that accrue to an actor through his or her social relationships and that aid in the attainment of goals. The book introduces the new notion of `social liability' as a framework to analyze the negative effects social networks can have on the attainment of goals by firms and/or their members. Corporate Social Capital and Liability thus presents a new way to tie together findings and approaches in the literature by explicitly addressing the distinction between networks and outcomes, the distinction between networks at the level of firms and networks at the level of individuals, and the distinction between positive outcomes of social structure (social capital) and negative outcomes (social liability). The book's contributors are forty-six acclaimed scholars from around the world with backgrounds in management, business and sociology. Together, they describe how social relationships within and between firms positively affect the ability of corporations to achieve fruitful alliances; gain access to information, resources, knowledge and financial capital; and recruit qualified personnel. The book makes an explicit distinction between networks at the level of firms and networks at the level of individuals. The outcomes of networks are also considered at these different analytical levels by addressing such questions as: how do social relationships between firms assist firms and individuals in the attainment of their goals? How do these relationships obstruct goals? What is the effect of networks between individuals (within and between firms) on the performance of these individuals and the firms they work for? Can networks be managed to yield social capital rather than social liability? The unifying framework of social capital and social liability is helpful in studying business enterprises, and also useful in other disciplines which analyze social networks and organizations, such as community studies, economics, and political science.

Author : Schniederjans, Ashlyn
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1599041979
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Outsourcing Management Information Systems written by Schniederjans, Ashlyn and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2006-09-30 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book balances the positive outcomes of outsourcing, which have made it a popular management strategy with the negative to provide a more inclusive decision; it explores risk factors that have not yet been widely associated with this strategy. It focuses on the conceptual "what", "why", and "where" aspects of outsourcing as well as the methodological "how" aspects"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Neslihan Aydogan
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 0387719113
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social Capital and Business Development in High-Technology Clusters written by Neslihan Aydogan and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-07-30 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The economics of regional clusters, where business formation, technological innovation, and the emergence of a highly-skilled labor force converge, has become a popular topic. This fascinating book applies a variety of tools and models to analyze, in depth, the formation and growth of high-tech clusters. It does this first by exploring the institutional forces that promote the failure or success of such agglomerations, and then by focusing on the dynamics of the labor force.

Author : Lewis M. Branscomb
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262522670
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Investing in Innovation written by Lewis M. Branscomb and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortly after taking office in 1993, President Bill Clinton and Vice President Al Gore called for a shift in American technology policy toward an expansion of public investments in partnerships with private industry. The authors of this volume were invited by the Clinton administration to take a hard, nonpartisan look at how successful the new policies have been and to propose ways to make their programs more effective. The first summary report of the team's recommendations was called the "hottest technology policy property on Capitol Hill."This book, an expansion of that report, offers a new set of technology policy principles. The authors use the principles to evaluate many federal research programs and to make recommendations for change. This volume will set the terms of the debate over the national research and innovation policy for years to come.

Author : James E. Katz
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262263351
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social Consequences of Internet Use written by James E. Katz and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2002-08-30 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the impact of Internet use on American society, based on a series of nationally representative surveys conducted from 1995 to 2000. Drawing on nationally representative telephone surveys conducted from 1995 to 2000, James Katz and Ronald Rice offer a rich and nuanced picture of Internet use in America. Using quantitative data, as well as case studies of Web sites, they explore the impact of the Internet on society from three perspectives: access to Internet technology (the digital divide), involvement with groups and communities through the Internet (social capital), and use of the Internet for social interaction and expression (identity). To provide a more comprehensive account of Internet use, the authors draw comparisons across media and include Internet nonusers and former users in their research. The authors call their research the Syntopia Project to convey the Internet's role as one among a host of communication technologies as well as the synergy between people's online activities and their real-world lives. Their major finding is that Americans use the Internet as an extension and enhancement of their daily routines. Contrary to media sensationalism, the Internet is neither a utopia, liberating people to form a global egalitarian community, nor a dystopia-producing armies of disembodied, lonely individuals. Like any form of communication, it is as helpful or harmful as those who use it.

Author : Joonmo Son
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1509513825
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social Capital written by Joonmo Son and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2020-05-11 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social capital is a principal concept across the social sciences and has readily entered into mainstream discourse. In short, it is popular. However, this popularity has taken its toll. Social capital suffers from a lack of consensus because of the varied ways it is measured, defined, and deployed by different researchers. It has been put to work in ways that stretch and confuse its conceptual value, blurring the lines between networks, trust, civic engagement, and any type of collaborative action. This clear and concise volume presents the diverse theoretical approaches of scholars from Marx, Coleman, and Bourdieu to Putnam, Fukuyama, and Lin, carefully analyzing their commonalities and differences. Joonmo Son categorizes this wealth of work according to whether its focus is on the necessary preconditions for social capital, its structural basis, or its production. He distinguishes between individual and collective social capital (from shared resources of a personal network to pooled assets of a whole society), and interrogates the practical impact social capital has had in various policy areas (from health to economic development). Social Capital will be of immense value to readers across the social sciences and practitioners in relevant fields seeking to understand this mercurial concept.

Author : Christiaan Grootaert
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 9907290750
Total Pages : 83 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social Capital, Household Welfare and Poverty in Indonesia written by Christiaan Grootaert and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1999 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It pays for poor households to participate actively in local associations. At low incomes, the returns to social capital are higher than returns to human capital. At higher incomes, the reverse is true.