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Gender differences in the creation of different types of social capital : A multilevel study
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Men were shown to be more effective in creating hard social capital, but, unexpectedly, women were not found to be the emotional specialists they often are thought to be.About:
This article is published in Social Networks.The article was published on 2006-01-01. It has received 165 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Social mobility & Social status.read more
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Looking out or looking up: Gender differences in expatriate turnover intentions
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate gender differences in expatriates' turnover intentions and propose two underlying mechanisms that explain expatriate turnover intentions: social integration and career advancement, and find that females' turnover intention is mainly explained by satisfaction with company support and perceived gap between within-and outside-company career-advancement opportunities.
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Homeownership and Social Capital in New Zealand
TL;DR: This paper found that homeownership is positively related to social capital formation in New Zealand communities, and that homeowners have an incentive to engage in the local community in order to preserve or enhance the value of their housing asset.
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Women’s Social Capital in Academia: A Personal Network Analysis
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated cohesion and brokerage as indicators for access to social capital to explore gender differences in ego-centered networks of female and male academic staff in German universities and research institutes.
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Networking Behavior and Sales Performance: Examining Potential Gender Differences
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined potential differences in the benefits of networking for male and female salespeople and found that men benefit more from customer networking, while women benefit from professional networking.
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The Impact of Social Capital on HIV-related Actions as Mediated by Personal and Proxy Efficacies in Namibia
Rachel A. Smith,Rajiv N. Rimal +1 more
TL;DR: The findings did not support a mediation model for efficacy in between social capital and HIV-related behaviors and intentions and revealed that bonding, bridging, and linking social capital differentially predicted personal and proxy efficacy.
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The Strength of Weak Ties
TL;DR: In this paper, it is argued that the degree of overlap of two individuals' friendship networks varies directly with the strength of their tie to one another, and the impact of this principle on diffusion of influence and information, mobility opportunity, and community organization is explored.
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The measurement of psychological androgyny.
TL;DR: A new sex-role inventory is described that treats masculinity and femininity as two independent dimensions, thereby making it possible to characterize a person as masculine, feminine, or "androgynous" as a function of the difference between his or her endorsement of masculine and feminine personality characteristics.
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The contingent value of social capital.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present an argument and evidence for a structural ecology of social capital that describes how the value of an individual's social capital to an individual is contingent on the number of people doing the same work.
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Measuring organizational cultures: A qualitative and quantitative study across twenty cases.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present the results of a study on organizational cultures in twenty units from ten different organizations in Denmark and the Netherlands, which came from in-depth interviews of selected informants and a questionnaire survey of a stratified random sample of organizational members.
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Some Effects of Proportions on Group Life: Skewed Sex Ratios and Responses to Token Women
TL;DR: In this article, a framework is developed for conceptualizing the processes that occur between dominants and tokens, and three perceptual phenomena are associated with tokens: visibility, polarization, and assimilation, where tokens' attributes are distorted to fit preexisting generalizations about their social type.