The Resource Generator: social capital quantification with concrete items

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Visualizing Personal Networks: Working with Participant-aided Sociograms (2007, background): “Both the position generator (Lin, Fu, and Hsung 2001) and the resource generator (Van Der Gaag and Snijders 2005) are efficient means of capturing a large spread of ties for specific purposes.”
Simplifying the Personal Network Name Generator (2007, methodology): “The six name generators used in this survey were based on wording developed by van der Poel (1993), the GSS (Burt 1984), the East York Studies (Wellman 1979; Wellman and Wortley 1990), and the Northern California Communities Study (Fischer 1982).”
Information processing and strategic decision-making in small and medium-sized enterprises: The role of human and social capital in attaining decision effectiveness (2013, methodology): “This approach captures the types of actors that influence decision-making, resembling a coarse version of the resource generator approach to measuring social capital (Van der Gaag and Snijders, 2005).”
Reliability and Validity of the Personal Social Capital Scale 16 and Personal Social Capital Scale 8: Two Short Instruments for Survey Studies (2013, background): “Rapid development in social capital and health research requires efficient instruments to assess social capital, particularly social capital at the personal level (Chen et al. 2009; De Silva et al. 2005; Harpham et al. 2002; Moore et al. 2011; Spellerberg 1997; Van Der Gaag and Webber 2010).”