Extending Network Analysis with Social Inclusions: A Chinese Entrepreneur Building Social Capital

Social network analysis is a highly useful tool to study the way individuals form alliances to cope with their daily tasks on the micro-level. We can map the interaction between the key persons involved into a graph, representing the social network. The result is then a snapshot of who interacts wit...

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Published in:Frontiers of business research in China 2011-03, Vol.5 (1), p.121-143
Main Authors: Peverelli, Peter J, Song, Lynda Jiwen, Sun, Zhiqiang, Yu, Jianfeng
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Accounting/Auditing
Business and Management
Business Finance
Chinese entrepreneurs
Employees
Entrepreneurs
Human Resource Management
Institutionalism
Marketing
Organization
Organization theory
Research Article
Social capital
Social integration
social integration theory
Social network analysis
Social networks
Social sciences
Studies
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Summary:Social network analysis is a highly useful tool to study the way individuals form alliances to cope with their daily tasks on the micro-level. We can map the interaction between the key persons involved into a graph, representing the social network. The result is then a snapshot of who interacts with whom and why/how at the time the data were collected. However, when trying to apply it to a higher level, real life problems, this method of analysis seems to deviate from the way people form networks of relationships in social practice. In social practice, human actors tend to form relationships on the basis of institutional affiliation and inclusion in social groups. This paper intends to use Social Integration (SI) developed at Erasmus University Rotterdam on the basis of Karl Weick’s organization theory to enrich current social network theory with a module that links networks on the basis of multiple inclusions of actors in several social-cognitive groups (networks). The expanded model is tested on a Chinese business case.
ISSN:1673-7326
1673-7431
DOI:10.1007/s11782-011-0124-5