The Dark Side of Social Capital

By Ragnhild Silkoset. 2008

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How boards’ internal and external social capital interact to affect firm performance (2016, background): “Several authors (Gargiulo and Benassi, 1999; Kim, 2005; Reagans and Zuckerman, 2001) have demonstrated the possibility that too much internal social capital might have negative effects, with the creation of groupthink, cliques, old-boy networks, and other dysfunctions that are the result of…”
Social Entrepreneurship Research: A Source of Explanation, Prediction, and Delight (2006, background): “For example, Gargiulo and Bernassi (1999) claimed that strong solidarity with ingroup members may result in overembeddedness, which reduces the flow of new ideas into the group and can result in parochialism and inertia.”
The Impact of Social Capital on the Start-ups’ Performance Growth (2010, background): “…configurations of social networks are positively related to the firm’s performance (Katila and Ahuja 2002; Rowley, Behrens, and Krackhardt 2000), other researchers consider strong ties a disadvantage rather than a benefit (Cross and Parker 2004; Borgatti and Cross 2003; Gargiulo and Benassi 1999).”
Entrepreneurial marketing and firm performance: Synthesis and conceptual development (2020, unknown): “On the other hand, having an excessive number of strong ties can prove disadvantageous (Gargiulo & Benassi, 1999).”
Network Capital, Social Capital and Knowledge Flow: How the Nature of Inter-organizational Networks Impacts on Innovation (2012, background): “Although this is a weak relationship, it is consistent with the greater innovative potential of more geographically diffuse networks allowing access tomore diverse sources of knowledge and avoiding potential inertia (Gargiulo and Benassi, 1999).”
Social networks, communication styles, and learning performance in a CSCL community (2007, background): “On the other hand, pre-existing social ties become a social liability when they restrict one (cid:1) s ability to renew his/her existing capital by conﬁning the social actor to pre-determined social circles (Gargiulo & Benassi, 1999).”
The Negative Effects of Social Capital in Organizations: A Review and Extension (2017, unknown): “It has been found that over-embeddedness reduces the flow of new ideas into the group, resulting in parochialism and inertia (Gargiulo and Benassi 1999).”
Dynamics of Social Capital and Their Performance Implications: Lessons from Biotechnology Start-ups (2006, background): “Previous researchers have maintained that structural holes and network dispersion can help organizations and their members overcome network cohesion and closure (Gargiulo and Benassi, 1999; Uzzi and Gillespie, 1999).”
The role of international assignees' social capital in creating inter-unit intellectual capital: A cross-level model (2009, background): “The inability to adapt the inter-unit social capital to changing work environments may lead to negative social capital (Gargiulo and Benassi, 1999).”
Racial categories in machine learning (2018, background): “The ways that racial social and spatial segregation lead to the “monopolistic group closure” of social advantage on racial lines is discussed in Haynes and Hernandez [26].”