The Time Relevance of Social Capital

Mooweon Rhee
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Mooweon Rhee: University of Hawaii, mooweon@hawaii.edu

Rationality and Society, 2007, vol. 19, issue 3, 367-389

Abstract: This article examines how the time relevance of social capital from social networks affects upward mobility. An analysis of survey data from 229 employees in a high-technology workplace shows that the effects of position-related networks (measured by network size and density) on promotion are affected by the temporal distribution of ties (measured by whether a tie was formed before or after an employee's positional change), while the effects of person-related networks are insensitive to temporal effects. The results support a necessary emphasis on the time-contingent value of social capital. I conclude with a discussion of the implications of the findings for organization theories and network theories.

Keywords: social capital; network; career mobility (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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DOI: 10.1177/1043463107080451

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