Social capital and technical information flows in the Ghanaian manufacturing sector

By A. Barr. 2000

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Subfields: Accounting, Management of Technology and Innovation, Sociology and Political Science

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1. M. Shah
2. Tyler Biggs
3. Marcel Fafchamps
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5. Yuval Millo
6. Thomas Molony
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7. Thomas Molony
8. V. Rao

Citations in the corpus

• Celebrations as Social Investments: Festival Expenditures, Unit Price Variation and Social Status in Rural India (2001, background): “An emerging empirical literature has begun to establish a connection between social capital and economic productivity [eg., Knack and Keefer, 1997; Barr, 2000].”
• Gender, social capital and information exchange in rural Uganda (2008, background): “While Barr (2000) assumes homogeneity among members in a network who engage in reciprocal exchange of information, we consider members in a social network to be heterogeneous and argue that for some network members, information exchange can be a oneway exchange while for others it can be a two-way…”
• Networks, communities and markets in sub-Saharan Africa: implications for firm growth and investment (2001, background): “First of all, relationships are not in general tradable.21 Although contacts are an accumulable assets (see Fafchamps and Minten (1999b) for evidence), the absence of a market for individual contacts preclude that returns to contacts are arbitraged out.”
• On the Empirics of Social Capital (2002, unknown): “Barr (2000), for instance, argues that social networks among Ghanaian entrepreneurs serve to channel information about new technology. Fafchamps and Minten (1999), Granovetter (1975,1995), Montgomery (1991), Rauch (1996), Rauch and Casella (2001,2003) and many others have emphasized the role of soci”
• Open innovation for SMEs in developing countries – An intermediated communication network model for collaboration beyond obstacles (2012, background): “Most emerging economies face frequent changes in their regulatory frameworks and experience direct Volume 14, Issue 3, September 2012 INNOVATION: MANAGEMENT, POLICY & PRACTICE 295 in multiethnic countries (Barr 2000; Fafchamps 2000; Fisman 2001; Biggs & Shah 2006).”
• African SMES, networks, and manufacturing performance (2006, background): “Networks also often provide mutual insurance assistance to smooth cash flows in the shock-prone SSA environment and they circulate market and technological information (Barr 2000).”
• Resources or Power? Implications of Social Networks on Compensation and Firm Performance (2012, background): “Barr (2000) finds that social capital in the form of social relationships embedded within bounded institutional or diffused community structures influences economic performance.”
• ‘I Don’t Trust the Phone; It Always Lies’ (2007, background): “Taken together, trust and networks create social capital (Barr 2000, 539)—those social aspects of economic activities that essentially boil down to “who you know” or what ordinary language calls “connections” (Bourdieu 1993, 32).”
• The formation of risk sharing networks (2007, background): “There is, however, some evidence that the formation of risk sharing links is aimed at pooling health risk.”