Brokerage and Closure: An Introduction to Social Capital

By Patricia E. Tweet. 2006

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Subfields: Finance, Sociology and Political Science, Urban Studies

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With a little help from my colleagues: A social embeddedness approach to perceived organizational support (2012, positive): “E‐mail: J.Hayton@Newcastle.ac.uk John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Received 7 July 2009 Revised 28 January 2011, Accepted 15 February 2011 Because managers and supervisors are primarily responsible for the direction, evaluation, and coaching of employees, existing research has focused on these organizational ”
Risk management capability building in SMEs: A social capital perspective (2013, background): “By taking advantage of social capital, entrepreneurial types of business learning networks have now extended the meaning of organizational cooperation from economies of scale to the economies of network that expose collective knowledge and social actions (Adler and Kwon, 2002; Burt, 2005).”
Connection strategies: Social capital implications of Facebook-enabled communication practices (2011, background): “Social capital is embedded in the structure of social networks and the location of individuals within these structures (Burt, 2005).”
Networking responses to different levels of institutional void: a comparison of internationalizing SMEs in Egypt and the UK (2017, background): “These external links are usually weak ties characterised by a low frequency of focused interaction, and they provide an opportunity to access a diverse set of resources and information (Burt, 1992; 2005).”
Social capital and management control systems: A study of a non-government organization (2010, background): “This was most effective when Tennant acted as a broker connecting agencies within structural holes (Burt, 2005).”
THE PRODUCTION OF ENTREPRENEURIAL OPPORTUNITY: A CONSTRUCTIVIST PERSPECTIVE (SUMMARY) (2010, background): “If the entrepreneur knows intermediaries (Granovetter, 1973; Burt, 1992, 2005) who have ties to providers of capital, the intermediaries can also be enlisted in the enactment of a shared meaning for the entrepreneur, the intermediary, and the capital provider.”
Technology Push and Demand Pull Perspectives in Innovation Studies: Current Findings and Future Research Directions (2012, background): “The network is first of all characterized by one boundaryspanning paper – i.e., a contribution that bridges different communities of research and exerts its influence across different disciplinary domains (Burt, 2005; Nerur et al., 2008).”
Home-Country Networks and Foreign Expansion (2016, positive): “Following research on social networks (e.g., Burt, 1992, 2005; Nohria, 1992), we have provided some evidence to the effect that firms enjoying a brokerage advantage in their home countries react to their partners’ foreign market entries by following them to the same locations abroad in order to…”
Visualization of interfirm relations in a converging mobile ecosystem (2008, background): “Subsequent studies have shown that indirect relations can serve as bridges to information and resources unavailable in the immediate circle of an actor and thus form a vital source of social capital (Burt, 2005).”
The Impact of Context Collapse and Privacy on Social Network Site Disclosures (2012, background): “As has been argued by numerous social capital researchers, weak and bridging ties are important for gaining access to non-redundant information such as job recommendations (Burt, 2005).”
Resourcing new businesses: social networks, bootstrapping and firm performance (2010, background): “If new firms are to survive and grow they need to access additional resources, especially finance, that are unlikely to be available from entrepreneurs’ strong ties (Burt 1992, 2005).”
The Use of Enterprise Social Network Sites for Knowledge Sharing in Distributed Organizations (2015, background): “Weak ties, in contrast, may provide an individual with access to nonredundant information sources, bolstering her bridging social capital (Burt, 1992, 2005).”
Special Issue: Frontiers of Organization Science, Part 1 of 2: Designing Work Within and Between Organizations (2005, background): “Burt (2005) provides a stimulating analysis of how closure (density of ties within a group) and brokerage (ties between structural holes in a network) produce social capital that provides competitive advantages to certain nodes in a network and certain networks compared with other networks.”
A theoretical analysis of the role of social networks in entrepreneurship (2014, background): “In particular, it suggests that emphasis should be placed on nurturing the entrepreneur’s ability to exploit social networks through what Burt (2005) terms brokerage and closure, that is, the bringing together of heterogeneous social ties to form social networks and the facilitating of the coordinat”
The Genesis and Dynamics of Organizational Networks (2012, background): “A key factor promoting the creation and the evolution of networks is the notion that actors purposively enact their social structures, generally referred to as agency behavior (White 1992, Emirbayer and Mische 1998, Burt 2005).”
Personality and social networks in organizations: A review and future directions (2016, background): “Constraint can be conceptualized as the extent to which the network acts as a “social straightjacket” affecting access to different pockets of the social world (Burt, 2005).”
Thriving in Central Network Positions: The Role of Political Skill (2018, background): “…connections that can be used to achieve one’s goals (Ferris et al., 2005; Treadway, Breland, Adams, Duke, & Williams, 2010), but it is yet to be seen whether politically skilled individuals build networks that are structurally associated with increased influence and performance (Burt, 2004, 2005).”
Triangulation and Mixed Methods Designs (2012, background): “’’ In Ronald Burt’s (2005) ‘‘echo hypothesis,’’ opinions expressed by different sources are often not independent validation but rather individuals echoing one opinion, such as that of a high-status person or an expert, and therefore highly redundant rather than a sign of convergence between indepen”