The Benefits and Pitfalls of Social Capital: Empirical Evidence from Two Organizations in the United Kingdom†

By Linda F. Edelman, Mike Bresnen, S. Newell, Harry Scarbrough, Jacky Swan. 2004

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Subfields: Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Sociology and Political Science

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In Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

1. Steven Si
2. Haridimos Tsoukas
3. Maryann P. Feldman
4. Linda Argote
5. Ella Miron-Spektor
6. Christopher B. Bingham
7. Steven J. Kahl

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Steven Si
2. Haridimos Tsoukas
3. Jun Lin

Citations in the corpus

• The Negative Effects of Social Capital in Organizations: A Review and Extension (2017, unknown): “Edelman et al. (2004) Interviews with 16 managers in two UK firms Organizational restructuring can leave holes in the network, which hampers the effectiveness of social capital.”
• Introduction: Knowledge Construction and Creation in Organizations (2004, background): “Organizational politics shapes the validity criteria in terms of which competing knowledge claims are judged and has a decisive influence on the extent to which specialized bodies of knowledge across an organization are brought together to constitute organizational knowledge ( Edelman, Bresnen, Newe”
• Can guanxi be a problem? Contexts, ties, and some unfavorable consequences of social capital in China (2010, background): “This paper echoes Woolcock’ s( 1998) proposal that certain structural configurations of social capital may be detrimental; and uses Chinese cases to substantiate the proposition with rich information and contextualizedanalysis.Scholarsfoundemergingevidenceof pitfallsof social capital, such as “disin”