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  • 1.  Antwort: Re: social capital scale

    Posted 02-21-2008 07:55

    Hello Roger,

    thank you for your response. I'd be highly interested to learn more about the different forms of social capital.

    We would like to assess social capital as an antecedent variable in a large sample of organizations. We follow the notion of Nahapiet and Ghoshal (1998, AMR) that social capital constitutes the resources embedded within, available through, and derived from a network of relationships. Apparently, most research in that vein conducts network analyses in which the number of ties between people sums up to the amount of social capital. Our sample is far too big to conduct such analyses, therefore we have to depend on self-ratings of social capital provided by employees or key informants such as CEOs or HR executives. I have not found a proper scale for such a self assessment, though. To my knowledge, only Youndt and colleagues provide such a scale (e.g.,  Subramaniam & Youndt, 2005, AMJ), but their scale is targeted towards knowledge sharing and is therefore too specific to simply assess the resources drawn from the network of relationships.

    Cheers,
    Jochen


    Jochen Menges
    Institute for Leadership and HR Management
    University of  St. Gallen
    Dufourstrasse 40 A
    9000 St. Gallen
    Switzerland

    Phone +41 71 224 31 83
    Fax +41 71 224 23 74
    E-Mail jochen.menges@unisg.ch




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    Hello Jochen,
    What we have discovered is that there are several streams of research that are loosely coupled together and called social capital research, and one of these streams revolves around networks. Can you specify more clearly what it is you seek?
    Regards,
    Roger C. Mayer
     


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    Dear Colleagues,

    I am searching for a scale to assess social capital in an employee survey. I am aware that most studies do sociomatrixes or some sort of net work analyses, but this is not applicable in our sample. I am looking for a typical 1-5 Likert-type scale. Does anyone know such a scale?

    Thank you,
    Jochen


    Jochen Menges
    Institute for Leadership and HR Management
    University of  St. Gallen
    Dufourstrasse 40 A
    9000 St. Gallen
    Switzerland

    Phone +41 71 224 31 83
    Fax +41 71 224 23 74