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Social Capital and Entrepreneurship: A Schema and Research Agenda
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In this article, the authors consider past and current research on social capital and entrepreneurship to develop a schema and an associated research agenda, and discuss how future research can utilize social capital perspectives across levels of analysis and contexts to explain a wide variety of entrepreneurship phenomena.Abstract:
This introduction to the special issue considers past and current research on “Social Capital and Entrepreneurship” to develop a schema and an associated research agenda. With the general goal of establishing social capital as a foundational theory of entrepreneurship, we discuss how future research can utilize social capital perspectives across levels of analysis and contexts to explain a wide variety of entrepreneurship phenomena.read more
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Internal Social Capital and the Attraction of Early Contributions in Crowdfunding
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the internal social capital that proponents may develop inside the crowdfunding community provides crucial assistance in igniting a self-reinforcing mechanism, and they show that the effect of these internal social networks on the success of a campaign is fully mediated by the capital and backers collected in the campaign's early days.
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New financial alternatives in seeding entrepreneurship: microfinance, crowdfunding, and peer-to-peer innovations
TL;DR: The authors provide an academic foundation for understanding new financial options that entrepreneurs can now use to start and grow ventures, such as microfinance, crowdfunding, and peer-to-peer lending.
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Contextualization and the advancement of entrepreneurship research
TL;DR: In this article, the role of context in the advancement of entrepreneurship research is discussed and the challenges in undertaking contextualized entrepreneurship research are considered, focusing on temporal, industry, spatial, social and organizational, ownership and governance.
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Serial Crowdfunding, Social Capital, and Project Success:
TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on serial crowdfunders, that is, entrepreneurs who repeatedly turn to crowdfunding to finance their projects, and argue that serial crowd-funders take advantage of t...
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The power of positivity? The influence of positive psychological capital language on crowdfunding performance
Aaron H. Anglin,Jeremy C. Short,Will Drover,Regan M. Stevenson,Aaron F. McKenny,Thomas H. Allison +5 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors extend the entrepreneurship literature to include positive psychological capital (an individual or organization's level of psychological resources consisting of hope, optimism, resilience, and confidence) as a salient signal in crowdfunding.
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Social Capital in the Creation of Human Capital
TL;DR: In this paper, the concept of social capital is introduced and illustrated, its forms are described, the social structural conditions under which it arises are examined, and it is used in an analys...
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Economic Action and Social Structure: The Problem of Embeddedness
TL;DR: In this article, the extent to which economic action is embedded in structures of social relations, in modern industrial society, is examined, and it is argued that reformist economists who attempt to bring social structure back in do so in the "oversocialized" way criticized by Dennis Wrong.
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Outline of a Theory of Practice
TL;DR: Bourdieu as mentioned in this paper develops a theory of practice which is simultaneously a critique of the methods and postures of social science and a general account of how human action should be understood.
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Social Capital, Intellectual Capital, and the Organizational Advantage
Janine Nahapiet,Sumantra Ghoshal +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a model that incorporates this overall argument in the form of a series of hypothesized relationships between different dimensions of social capital and the main mechanisms and proces.
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“Bowling Alone: America’s Declining Social Capital”
TL;DR: Putnam as discussed by the authors showed that crucial factors such as social trust are eroding rapidly in the United States and offered some possible explanations for this erosion and concluded that the work needed to consider these possibilities more fully.