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As recently as one generation ago, the term organization was synonymous with stasis, reliability, hierarchy and disciplined productivity. The new guiding principles of management practise, meanwhile, are dynamism, flexibility, teams and emancipated interactivity. The new key term "network" has summed up these contemporary organizational trends. This study suggest to interprete networks as social capital of individuals and organizations. This interpretation requires a theoretical and methodological refocusing on the actions of the organization's members. The present study places a variant of action theory - socioeconomic exchange theory - centre stage, fuses this theory with the toolkit of social network analysis and puts the resulting synthesis to the test by examining cooperation among equal members of an organization.
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Wenzel Matiaske studied sociology, economics, and political science at the Philipps-University Marburg and public administration at the German University of Administrative Sciences Speyer. He worked as research assistant at the Universities of Paderborn and Mainz and held positions as assistant professor (1992-1998 Technical University Berlin), acting professor (1998-2000 University of Paderborn) and full professor of Business Administration at the International Institute for Management of Flensburg University (2000-2008). He is now professor of Business Administration, Leadership and Labour Relations and managing director of the Institute for Human Resources and International Management at Helmut-Schmidt-University / University of the Federal Armed Forces Hamburg. Furthermore he associated as a Research-Professor with the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW) Berlin.
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- PublisherCambridge Scholars Publishing
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 1443840335
- ISBN 13 9781443840330
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages395
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Social Capital in Organizations: An Exchange Theory Approach
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ISBN 10: 1443840335
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover, xiii + 383 pages, NOT ex-library. Book is clean and bright throughout with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps, firmly bound. A tiny crease to the tip of lower corner of a portion of leaves. Dust jacket shows gentle shelfwear. -- As recently as one generation ago, the term organization was synonymous with stasis, reliability, hierarchy and disciplined productivity. The new guiding principles of management practise, meanwhile, are dynamism, flexibility, teams and emancipated interactivity. The new key term "network" has summed up these contemporary organizational trends.This study suggests the interpretation of networks as social capital of individuals and organizations. This understanding requires a theoretical and methodological refocusing on the actions of the organization's members. The present study places a variant of action theory - socioeconomic exchange theory - centre stage, fuses this theory with the toolkit of social network analysis and puts the resulting synthesis to the test by examining cooperation among equal members of an organization. -- Contents: Preface; 1. One Legacy of the Situational Approach: Lateral Cooperation [Before and after: the situational approach and its consequences; Excursus: fashions, myths and trends of organizing; After the dissolution of mechanistic structures: networks as analytical perspective; Reintroducing actors: theoretical explanations and descriptions; From here on: the plan underpinning the present study]; 2. Individual Action and Collective Effects: Building Blocks of Action Theory [Metatheoretical prolegomenon; Puzzle of the emergence of the social and its (provisional) resolution: the macro-micro-macro model; 'Spectres and bogeymen' of the social sciences and their useful descendent: homo socio-oeconomicus; We can count on the homo socio-oeconomicus: calculation, (dis-)position and habitus; How do we fill an empty sack? The construction of theory-rich bridging assumptions; Summary]; 3. Resources and Relationships: Exchange in Networks [Good gifts, bad gifts: social and economic exchange; Pooling resources and exchange: the scope of exchange theory; Rational reconstruction of social exchange: Coleman's exchange theory; Two faces of power: economic and social capital; A fragile medium of exchange? Trust; Summary]; 4. Exchange and Power Revisited: Formal Representation [A perfect social system: the basic model; Explanations: how Ms f lost the election for council leader to her advantage; Who is interacting with whom? Resource flow and exchange network; Influence, status and exchange power: measures of social capital; Open systems, transaction costs and distrust: extensions of the basic model; Of intermediaries and brokers: structure of access as resource; Summary]; 5. An example of Application: On the Analysis of Lateral Exchange Relations [Interests and resources in cases of exchange with equals: a socioeconomic model of interaction in working teams; From the desk to the field and back: aspects of access to the field and of operationalization; 'The proof of the pudding.': findings of the field studies; Summary]; 6. The Story so far: Open Questions and Provisional Answers; Literature; Name index; Index. Seller Inventory # 007894
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