Social Capital: Promise and Pitfalls of its Role in Development

By A. Portes, P. Landolt. Journal of Latin American Studies, 2000

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Human geography and the institutions that underlie economic growth (2011, background): “…communities, including closure, solidarity, and norms and sanctions, can have restraining or even harmful socio-economic impacts (Levi, 1996; Portes and Landolt, 2000); this is an extension of classical worries that communities represent the forces of tradition and hence handicap the…”
Entrepreneurship, Social Capital, and Institutions: Social and Commercial Entrepreneurship across Nations (2013, neutral): “However, enhancing cooperation within a smaller group can come at the cost of restricting individual freedom, the exclusion of outsiders, or even hostility toward them (Portes, 1998; Portes & Landolt, 2000).”
Releasing Constraints to Growth or Pushing on a String? Policies and Performance of Mexican Micro-Firms (2009, result): “This view is consistent with the emerging literature on social capital and networks that sees formal and informal services as substitutes (see, for example, Portes and Landolt, 2000; Stiglitz, 2000; Tybout, 2000 provides an excellent literature review on this topic). This literature has highlighted ”
Non-Economic Factors in Economic Geography and in 'New Regionalism': A Sympathetic Critique (2006, background): “As Portes and Landolt (2000) argue, the alltoo-common logical fallacy is to conclude that one causes the other without considering the possibility that both are determined by common external causes.”
Local entrepreneurial resilience and culture: the role of social values in fostering economic recovery (2015, background): “in more heterogeneous and diverse communities, whilst there is also the potential for cohesive groups to be too inwardly looking, with strong bonding ties limiting access to new ideas from outside a community (Portes and Landolt, 2000; Levie, 2007).”
Informal Institutions and Their Comparative Influences on Social and Commercial Entrepreneurship: The Role of In‐Group Collectivism and Interpersonal Trust (2016, background): “…proposed model in Figure 1, in-group collectivism and interpersonal trust—labeled as a wider radius of trust (Fukuyama 2001; Stephan and Uhlaner 2010) or bonds of cooperation within a society/nation or bonds of solidarity within a given community/nation (Portes and Landolt 2000)—represent values.”
Street-level policy entrepreneurship (2015, result): “This phenomenon is consistent with research suggesting that social capital is not necessarily used for positive ends (e.g. Portes and Landolt 2000).”
The influence of social capital on environmental policy instruments (2009, background): “In particular, it has been observed that under certain circumstances higher stocks of social capital developed in social groups may result in significant negative implications (see Portes and Landolt 2000).”
How Network Externalities Can Exacerbate Intergroup Inequality1 (2011, background): “Reciprocity operates strongly within villages; individuals receive information or help from their fellow villagers with the expectation of reciprocating in the future (Portes and Landolt 2000).”
Better a Hundred Friends than a Hundred Rubles?: Social Networks in Transition - The Kyrgyz Republic (2004, neutral): “Portes and Landolt (2000).”
Business Networks and Economic Development in Rural Communities in the United States (2010, background): “Thus, in addition to the relative paucity of opportunities for developing bridging social capital in rural communities, very strongly bonded groups might exacerbate the situation by erecting barriers against associations with outsiders (Portes & Landolt, 2000; Woolcock, 1998).”