This volume contains 23 articles on social capital, dating from 1840 to 2002.

Social capital - the informal networks, trust and common understanding among individuals in an organization - determines major competitive advantages in today's

Leading scholars in the field of social networks from diverse disciplines present the first systematic and comprehensive collection of current theories and empi

Social Capital and Entrepreneurship concludes by examining the tension between the properties of social networks used in entrepreneurship researchers' models an

This work argues that there is more to explaining the differences in business success than individual characteristics alone. It examines an organization's abili