Cognitive Dimensions Of Social Capital Research Articles

The Effect of Social Capital Dimension on Lecture Performance

This study aims to determine and analyze the effect of structures, rational and cognitive dimensions of social capital on lecturers’ performance. It employs a quantitative approach to research within the ex post facto design. The sample of the study was 67 respondents from Patompo University. Data were collected using questionnaires and documentations. Data analysis was carried out through analytical activities, which includes prerequisite test analysis and hypothesis testing. The results of the study show that: 1) overall, structural dimension of social capital, rational dimension of social capital, and cognitive dimension of social capital have a positive and significant effect on the lecturer performance; 2) structural dimension of social capital have a positive and significant effect on the lecturer performance; 3) rational dimension of social capital have a positive and significant effect on the lecturer performance; and 4) cognitive dimension of social capital have a positive and significant effect on the lecturer performance. This finding becomes an input for higher education leaders to better understand and provide with insights into which social dimension can affect the performance of lecturers by considering school backgrounds, increasing the lecturer participation thorugh reward system and appropriate performance evaluation models.

Bonding Social Capital as a Milestone for Village-Owned Enterprises Existence (a Study of BUM Desa Kerjaya Krasa, Krocok Village, Japah District, Blora Regency)

The Indonesian Government is currently trying to intensify the establishment and development of BUM Village to increase village income. The existence of BUM Village is expected to be a pillar of the village community’s economy, so that the existence of BUM Village needs to be maintained and further considered. The management of BUM Village is carried out by the village government together with the community, based on these reasons it is important to conduct further research on social processes related to the existence of bonding social capital in the development of BUM Village. One of the BUM Village that can maintain its existence is BUM Village Kerjaya Krasa, established in 2017. This paper aims to analyze the development and role of bonding social capital in BUM Village Kerjaya Krasa. The research was conducted qualitatively through in-depth interviews, observation, and documentation. The structural dimensions of social capital found are related to the good relationship between the BUM Village management, with the Krocok Villagers, and the Krocok Village Government. The cognitive dimensions of social capital that can be analyzed include written rules, norms, and sanctions. The relational dimensions that can be found are related to trust, transparency, reciprocity, and social values.

Individual social capital and dental pain in older adults.

To investigate the association between the structural and cognitive dimensions of social capital and dental pain in Brazilian adults aged 50years and over. This cross-sectional study conducted individual assessments of 6154 Brazilians aged 50years or older. Four individual variables based on structural and cognitive dimensions of social capital were assessed. We used hierarchical logistic regression models to estimate the odds ratio for dental pain with individual structural and cognitive social capital variables adjusted for associated factors. The model followed hypothetical pathways linking social capital to oral health. Cognitive social capital was associated with dental pain. Participants who did not trust their neighbourhood had a 28% greater chance (OR, 1.28; 95% CI, 1.02-1.60) of dental pain than those who did. Elements of cognitive dimension of social capital, particularly trust, reciprocity and support, as part of a common risk factor approach, should be considered when planning oral health promotion and preventive activities for older people.

Investigating social capital, trust and commitment in family business: case of media firms

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to investigate social capital's effect on family business development in selected family media firms.Design/methodology/approachThe statistical population includes 100 individuals who run a family business in this industry. Eighty individuals are selected as the research sample through the stratified random sampling method. The data are collected using a questionnaire. The authors used structural equation modelling method for data analysis.FindingsThe results indicate that social capital affects the development of family businesses in media firms. According to the results obtained from the structural equation test, the effect of the relational dimension of social capital on trust and the effect of the cognitive and structural dimensions of social capital on trust are supported, while the effect of the relational dimension of social capital on commitment as well as the effect of the cognitive dimension of social capital on trust are not supported.Practical implicationsThis research could help family firms in media industries improve trust and commitment by paying attention to different aspects of social capital. Besides, it shows that even the impact of relational and cognitive social capital, respectively, on commitment and trust, are not supported; these two could affect trust and commitment, respectively.Originality/valueThe paper is among the first studies that investigate family firms in media industries. Besides, the relationships between relational, cognitive and structural aspects of social capital and trust and commitment are rarely studied in the literature as two determinants of family business development.

Bonding Social Capital as a Milestone for Village-Owned Enterprises Existence (a Study of BUM Desa Kerjaya Krasa, Krocok Village, Japah District, Blora Regency)

The Indonesian Government is currently trying to intensify the establishment and development of BUM Village to increase village income. The existence of BUM Village is expected to be a pillar of the village community’s economy, so that the existence of BUM Village needs to be maintained and further considered. The management of BUM Village is carried out by the village government together with the community, based on these reasons it is important to conduct further research on social processes related to the existence of bonding social capital in the development of BUM Village. One of the BUM Village that can maintain its existence is BUM Village Kerjaya Krasa, established in 2017. This paper aims to analyze the development and role of bonding social capital in BUM Village Kerjaya Krasa. The research was conducted qualitatively through in-depth interviews, observation, and documentation. The structural dimensions of social capital found are related to the good relationship between the BUM Village management, with the Krocok Villagers, and the Krocok Village Government. The cognitive dimensions of social capital that can be analyzed include written rules, norms, and sanctions. The relational dimensions that can be found are related to trust, transparency, reciprocity, and social values.

The impact of social capital-based selection practices on talent management: evidence from telecom MNCs in Bangladesh

The purpose of this paper is to explore how social capital-based selection practices influence talent management (TM) in multinational companies (MNC). To date, little is known about how this relationship fulfills business priorities. The study collected empirical data through in-depth interviews with 12 managers from three telecommunication firms in Bangladesh. Our study found a significant influence of social capital-based selection practices on TM. We found that the relational and cognitive dimensions of social capital were the major drivers of selection practices that influenced a talent search process. Trust and cultural norms especially within networking relationships through shared narratives, codes and language, and vision affected TM involving selection practices. Therefore, the role of existing human resource management (HRM) system for selection practices was found inadequate without the integration of social capital. We report that upper-level managers have the capability to shape and implement a TM system that benefits candidates with network ties of informal social relationships, which consequently marginalized formal HRM practices. HRM system is only an administrative function alongside the dominant social capital-based TM selection practices. For practical implications, upper-level managers used social capital-based selection practices beyond HRM systems that were deemed pragmatic in selecting the right candidates for positions in organizations favoring intra-group homogeneity.

Social capital and self-reported oral health at baseline of the brazilian longitudinal study of aging.

This cross-sectional study aimed to estimate the association between the structural and cognitive dimensions of social capital and self-reported oral health. This study conducted individual assessments of 9,365 individuals aged 50years or older from Brazil. Four individual variables based on structural and cognitive dimensions of social capital were assessed. We used hierarchical Poisson regression models to estimate the prevalence ratio of self-reported oral health with individual structural and cognitive social capital variables adjusted for associated factors. Cognitive social capital was associated with self-reported oral health. Individuals who reported lack of neighbourhood trust and not having friends presented 14% (RP: 1.14; 95% CI: 1.07-1.21) and 9% (RP: 1.09; 95% CI: 1.01-1.19), respectively, higher prevalence of poor self-reported oral health, relative to those who trust in their neighbourhood and reported having friends. The cognitive dimension of social capital may be linked with self-reported oral health. Therefore, social capital can be stimulated in the context of social policies as its encouragement can be an efficient tool for improving individuals' health and, consequently, the oral health of the older people.

The Light and the Dark of Mindful Social Capital: Right Mindfulness and Social Capital Development

Despite the literatures on spirituality and social capital development remaining largely disconnected, we address how right mindfulness encourages organizational‐level social capital. We connect the philosophical foundations of ‘right mindfulness’ to bonding and bridging social capital, and the structural, relational and cognitive dimensions of social capital. We conclude that a skilful approach to right mindfulness, coupled with organizational learning heuristics, has much to offer the conversation on social capital development, and yet its potential has not been fully recognized. Despite this promise, we draw attention to a ‘dark side’ to the co‐optation by organizations of mindfulness practices and draw some further boundary conditions. We argue that a secular interpretation of right mindfulness limits its potential in organizational contexts. We conclude with managerial implications and pathways for future research.

Internal social capital and the life cycle of agricultural cooperatives

This paper provides an integrated analysis of the structural, relational, and cognitive dimensions of social capital in cooperatives. The social capital concept is integrated with cooperative lifecycle theory to describe the change of cooperative social capital along the lifecycle. We propose that cooperatives in different stages of the lifecycle are featured with different levels of social capital. Cooperatives usually enjoy a high level of social capital in the early stages of the lifecycle. However, the level of social capital in cooperatives exhibits a declining trend along the development of the organization. The decrease of social capital will lead to an imbalance of the social and economic attributes of cooperatives. The cooperative’s governance structure must change accordingly. We argue that it is important for cooperatives to maintain and develop the social capital strategically over time. Otherwise, the comparative advantage of the cooperative business form may disappear.

CONCEPTUALIZATION OF SOCIAL CAPITAL IN CROSS-SECTIONAL DESIGN STUDIES: RAPID REVIEW OF LITERATURE

Social capital is a concept that is widely studied in different fields of science, in different dimensions of this concept, and consists of a number of elements, including trust, sense of belonging and affiliation. Given the multidimensional nature of social capital, researchers point to the challenges of its conceptualization and operationalization of its elements. Objective: To identify cross-sectional design studies, with nationally representative samples from European countries, where each study assessed following social capital elements: either trust and sense of belonging, or trust and affiliation, to identify other included social capital elements, to clarify how these elements are operationalized, to identify what social capital determinants are taken into account and what social capital manifestations have been evaluated.Method: Cross-sectional design studies, with nationally representative samples for European countries, conducted between 2014 and 2019, were sought in Science Direct, ProQuest, SAGE, EBSCO, Google Scholar, using the key words “social capital”, “trust”, “sense of belonging” and their synonyms. The methodological quality was assessed by Appraisal tool for Cross-Sectional Studies (Axis). Results: From initially identified 173 studies, the literature review included 3 studies. The included studies identify determinants of social capital (socio-demographic factors (2 studies) and political affiliation (1 study)) and manifestations of social capital (self-rated health (1 study), loneliness (1 study), willingness to pay for environmental quality (1 study)). The included studies define the bonding, bridging and linking types of social capital, as well as the structural and cognitive dimensions of social capital. The studies assessed and operationalized the following social capital elements: trust (3 studies), sense of belonging (1 study), support (1 study), frequency of contacts (2 studies), participation in associations (1 study), religious affiliation (1 study), civic activity (2 studies).

The Influential Factor of Financial Products in Social Network Environment

The ever-progressing development of social network and Internet finance has changed consumers’ perception and purchase decision of online financial products. Compared with traditional financial products, the online ones, originated from social networks with huge flow, present a wealth of information including both product and platform information, such as product recommendation, comments and purchase record. Consumers exchange useful information through social networks and changed their perceptions of financial products, thus affecting their choice and purchase. In this process, social capital plays an important role. Based on social capital theory, this paper explored the influence of social capital from different dimensions on users’ perceived benefit and perceived risk, thus affecting their decision. This paper collected data from 263 sample members who purchased financial products on WeChat, and adopted structural equation model to verify relevant hypothesis. The results reveal that perceived risk and perceived benefit in social network environment both have significant impacts on consumers’ purchase intention of financial products. The structural dimension of social capital has negative impacts on perceived benefit and slight impacts on perceived risk. The cognitive dimension of social capital has positive effects on perceived benefit and perceived risk. The relational dimension of social capital bears significant positive impacts on perceived benefit and significant negative impacts on perceived risk. The results of this paper provide favorable theoretical basis and practical value for the understanding of consumers’ willingness to purchase financial products in social network environment.

What Makes Firms Innovative? The Role of Social Capital in Corporate Innovation

This paper offers a social capital explanation for the purported relationship between human capital investment and an organization’s innovation capability. We argue that social capital plays a mediating role in the relationship between the level of individual knowledge of employees and organizations’ innovation capabilities. The mediating mechanism is attributed to the role of social capital in knowledge exchange and combination that help enhance knowledge creation. Using survey data of 319 manufacturing firms in Korea, we conducted structural equation modeling (SEM) analysis to verify the mediating role of social capital in firms’ innovation performance. The results demonstrated that relational and cognitive dimensions of social capital are important mediators in realizing organizational innovation performance.

Building new social capital with scenario planning

Practitioners have observed that scenario planning contributes to building new social capital. In scenario planning terms, new social capital can provide access to new information, novel strategic options and unprecedented collaborative opportunities. However, there is no description or explanation in the literature as to how scenario planning can build new social capital. Reporting on research into the scenario planning process of two organizations, we find that scenario planning generates new social capital through learning with the conceptual future, which is a direct investment in building new shared systems of meaning – the cognitive dimension of social capital. This then enables the structural and relational dimensions of new social capital to emerge as by-products. The building of new social capital provides another purpose for scenario investments and another quality criterion by which to assess the value of these interventions. The insights of the research will be of interest to: scenario planning scholars; leaders interested in how to purposefully design and conduct scenario planning if a core intent is to build new social capital; and scholars interested in the cognitive dimension of social capital and its creation.

Quality Assessment Framework for Mobile Health Systems

Web-based, online social networking has received much attention from researchers in a variety of academic disciplines, with interesting issues addressed from different perspectives. Although Internet technologies play an instrumental role in the provision of the connectivity and message exchange capabilities that are required for the member interactions, the impacts of extensive usage of online social networks often are often on the non-technological aspects. This research investigates the driving forces of website loyalty, an issue of interest to both the individuals using the service for socializing and for the businesses deploying social networks as a serious technological tool for business promotion purposes. Using Facebook as the target of observation, this study evaluates the effects of social presence and social capital on website loyalty. The analysis reveals a positive influence of social presence on all three (structural, relational and cognitive) dimensions of social capital. Further, both the relational and cognitive dimensions of social capital have positive influence on the website loyalty.

PENGARUH KEPEMIMPINAN TRANSAKSIONAL-TRANSFORMASIONAL PADA MODAL SOSIAL ANGGOTA ORGANISASI (Kasus untuk Karyawan Setingkat Staf pada Sebuah Perusahaan Otomotif di Jawa Tengah)

Recently, social capital becomes a popular term in business world. Researchers believe that social capital has significant influence on employee performance. However, there has not been found any research examining how social capital can be built. This article tries to fill the gap by examining the effect of leader behavior to employees’ social capital. The results find strong support for the effect of transactional and transformational leadership to relational dimension ofsocial capital, and also strong support for the effect of transformational leadership to cognitive dimension of social capital. The results do not find any support for the effect of transactional and transformational leadership to structural dimension of social capital and the effect of transactional leadership to cognitive dimension of social capital.Keywords: transactional leadership, transformational leadership, social capital

How are social capital and sense of coherence associated with hazardous alcohol use? Findings from a large population-based Swedish sample of adults.

This study examined whether social capital and a sense of coherence are associated with hazardous alcohol use in a large population-based Swedish sample. In particular, the objectives were (a) to examine which of five subdimensions of social capital is associated with hazardous alcohol use, (b) to investigate the moderating role of sense of coherence and (c) to examine possible sex differences. A postal survey was distributed to a sample of respondents (aged 18-84 years) from five Swedish counties that was stratified by sex, age and city; 40,674 (59.2%) participants responded, of which 45.5% were men and 54.5% were women with a mean±SD age of 53.8±17.9 years. Structural dimensions of social capital were associated with an increased probability of hazardous alcohol use among both men and women, whereas the increased probability associated with cognitive dimensions occurred mostly among women. Sense of coherence was robustly associated with a decreased probability of hazardous alcohol use among both men and women. There were few moderating effects of sense of coherence and sex differences emerged mainly for the cognitive dimension of social capital. CONCLUSIONS ASSOCIATIONS BETWEEN SOCIAL CAPITAL DIMENSIONS AND HAZARDOUS ALCOHOL USE WERE PARTLY SEX-SPECIFIC, WHEREAS THE BENEFITS OF A SENSE OF COHERENCE ACCRUED TO BOTH SEXES SOCIAL CAPITAL DIMENSIONS AND SENSE OF COHERENCE WERE GENERALLY UNRELATED TO EACH OTHER ONLY ASSOCIATIONS BETWEEN THE COGNITIVE DIMENSIONS OF SOCIAL CAPITAL AND HAZARDOUS ALCOHOL USE DIFFERED BY SEX.

Education and Self-Reported Health: Evidence from 23 Countries on the Role of Years of Schooling, Cognitive Skills and Social Capital.

We examine the contribution of human capital to health in 23 countries worldwide using the OECD Survey of Adult Skills, a unique large-scale international assessment of 16–65 year olds that contains information about self-reported health, schooling, cognitive skills and indicators of interpersonal trust, which represents the cognitive dimension of social capital. We identify cross-national differences in education, skill and social capital gradients in self-reported health and explore the interaction between human capital and social capital to examine if and where social capital is a mediator or a moderator of years of schooling and cognitive abilities. We find large education gaps in self-reported health across all countries in our sample and a strong positive relationship between self-reported health and both literacy and trust in the majority of countries. Education and skill gradients in self-reported health appear to be largest in the United States and smallest in Italy, France, Sweden and Finland. On average around 5.5% of both the schooling gap in self-reported health and the literacy gap in self-reported health can be explained by the higher levels of interpersonal trust that better educated/more skilled individuals have, although the mediating role of trust varies considerably across countries. We find no evidence of a moderation effect: the relationships between health and years of schooling and health and cognitive skills are similar among individuals with different levels of trust.

Can Ethno‐Linguistic Diversity Explain Cross‐Country Differences in Social Capital?: A Global Perspective

Motivated by the inconclusiveness of empirical studies on the relationship between ethno‐linguistic diversity and social capital (SC) at various levels of regional aggregation, this paper provides new evidence on the relationship between the two variables at a global scale. A cross‐sectional analysis of 68 developed and developing countries applying two‐stage least squares estimations suggests not only that the cognitive dimension of SC (shared codes and languages) is highly important for SC formation across regional origin, but also that countries with a greater degree of linguistic fractionalisation have a lower SC stock. In particular, countries with fractionalized ethnic and linguistic groups, as captured by number of languages and measures of linguistic diversity, tend to have lower levels of social trust, fewer memberships in social organisations, and deteriorated social norms and structures. The negative ethnic fractionalisation effect on SC is also found weaker in higher‐income and in non‐African countries.

Relationships between Social and Intellectual Capital: Empirical Evidence from IC Statements

This paper investigates on the determinants of a firm's intellectual capital (IC). Acknowledging the literature on this topic, we focused on the effect that the assessment of social capital (SC) has on intellectual capital, according to the theoretical model put forward by previous studies. Starting from the concept of organisational advantage, they argued that three SC dimensions, namely, the structural, the cognitive and the relational dimensions, contribute to the creation of IC. Different facets of the three dimensions help in providing combination capabilities and motivating the exchange of IC that eventually produce new IC. This study extends this literature by empirically investigating on these relationships. By analysing the contents of the IC statements disclosed by 36 firms, we first identified which indicator, or measure, has been developed and assessed to monitor the facets of SC and the level of IC. Then, we performed a path analysis, using partial least square models, in order to uncover the effect that the single SC dimension has on the creation of IC. Sometimes results contradict the theoretical assumptions. Theory, in fact, predicts that cognitive and structural dimensions of SC enhance human capital, but empirical evidence did not support this hypothesis. Similar argumentations can be put forward for the empirical evidence from the path between the cognitive dimension of SC and organisational IC. On the other hand, as theoretically predicted, an increase in the assessment of the level of relational SC has a positive effect on the level of human capital. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Entrepreneurs’ network evolution – the relevance of cognitive social capital

Purpose– The purpose of this paper is to investigate entrepreneurs’ network evolution in the start-up phase.Design/methodology/approach– Based on the case studies of six fashion start-up firms, this study uses a three-dimensional perspective on social capital (structural, relational, cognitive) to investigate entrepreneurs’ network evolution (i.e. initiation of new relationships) in the start-up phase so as to acquire resources and support for firms’ goals. The study focuses particularly on the understudied cognitive dimension of social capital. The fashion industry provides a relevant research setting because it is characterised by changes in demand, which generate opportunities for entrepreneurship.Findings– The findings show that the display of cognitive attributes is important for the creation of structural social capital (the establishment of new relationships). The findings also indicate that relationships initiated based on the cognitive dimension have a high probability of developing into embedded relationships, thereby becoming high in the relational dimension and providing access to private information containing referrals to other actors. Thus, these relationships also promote the continued development of the structural dimension.Originality/value– The findings imply that the entrepreneurs’ sets of cognitive attributes constitute an important asset in the creation of social capital. They also point to the importance of signalling these values to potential resource holders. Relationships initiated through the display of cognitive attributes can provide resources without requiring immediate economic remuneration.