The contingent value of social capital.
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...* Social capital influences career success (Burt, 1992; Gabbay & Zuckerman, 1998; Podolny & Baron, 1997) and executive compensation (Belliveau, O'Reilly, & Wade, 1996; Burt, 1997a)....
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...Although the facilitative role of networks has led to their identification as network resources or social capital (Burt, 1997; Gulati, 1999), and network attributes have been associated with several distinct benefits, such as trust, information, and power, scholars have been unable to agree on the…...
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...Thus, in addition to being limited in magnitude, the value of indirect ties is also likely to be contingent on the number of a firm's direct ties (see also Burt, 1997)....
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...…of his or her own job and as success depends more on reading the organization to identify valuable projects and know who can be brought together to implement the projects (cf. Burt 1997).11 Salary in model 1 decreases for first-rank managers by $7 with a one-point increase in network constraint....
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...The networks view of social capital is closely associated with Burt (1992, 1997, 1998); Fafchamps and Minten (1999); Massey (1998); Massey and Espinosa (1997); Portes (1995, 1997, 1998); and Portes and Sensenbrenner (1993)....
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