Net social capital processes

Autor: Geoff Easton, James L. Bowey
Rok vydání: 2007
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Zdroj: Journal of Business & Industrial Marketing. 22:171-177
ISSN: 0885-8624
DOI: 10.1108/08858620710741878
Popis: PurposeThe paper seeks to use the concept of net social capital to help explain the behaviour of a business constellation, a group of entrepreneurial firms in different businesses that cooperate to their mutual benefit.Design/methodology/approachThe paper takes the form of an in‐depth case study of the Canadian Groupement Quebecoise.FindingsThe members of the group create and maintain net social capital among themselves in a variety of ways both social and economic and in turn use that net social capital outside the group in dealings with other organisations, profit and non‐profit.Practical implicationsThe findings suggest ways in which firms can work with other non‐competing firms.Originality/valueThe concept of net social capital is novel and the study is the first of its kind that investigates such a tightly knit and productive business constellation.
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