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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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Does where you stand depend on how you behave? Networking behavior as an alternative explanation for gender differences in network structure
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate the relevance of gender for organizational networks and find that the men account managers employ exchange and affect-based trust networking and, to a lesser extent, authoritative networking.
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The moderating influence of national culture on female and male entrepreneurs’ social network size and new venture growth
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors disentangle individual-level gender differences and norm-based gender roles and stereotypes to provide a finer-grained understanding of why female and male entrepreneurs experience different growth returns from their social networks across different national cultures.
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Bibliometric Studies on Gender Disparities in Science
TL;DR: This chapter discusses the challenges of tracking gender disparities in science through bibliometrics and reviews the various approaches taken by bibliometricians to identify gender and analyze the bibliographic data in order to point to gender disparity in science.
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Without each other, we have nothing: a state-of-the-art analysis on how to operationalize social capital
Michael Weiler,Oliver Hinz +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a review of the empirical literature on social capital, a term that broadly refers to the valuable resources derived from interpersonal relations in social networks, and identify some shortcomings of recent social capital research.
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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.