Social cooperatives, social welfare associations and social networks

Giacomo Degli Antoni () and Fabio Sabatini

MPRA Paper from University Library of Munich, Germany

Abstract: We use an original dataset to study how participation in two types of nonprofit organizations, i.e. social welfare associations and social cooperatives, affects individual social capital, intended as networks of cooperative relationships. Participation in both the types of organization allows members to start new social relations. However, social welfare associations seem to play a significantly greater role in the development of volunteers’ social capital, favouring the creation of weak ties that are used to exchange information and advice, and offering the opportunity to establish stronger ties entailing concrete mutual support. Within social cooperatives, workers appear to develop their individual social capital to a greater extent than volunteers. Our results suggest that the composition of the workforce, the depth of members’ involvement in the organization’s activities and human resources strategies adopted by the management influence the creation of cooperative relations through on-the-job interactions.

Keywords: social capital; nonprofit organizations; social cooperatives; social networks; volunteering (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L31 L33 P13 Z1 Z13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015-11-03
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-hme, nep-soc and nep-ure
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/67623/1/MPRA_paper_67623.pdf original version (application/pdf)

Related works:
Journal Article: Social cooperatives, social welfare associations and social networks (2017)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pra:mprapa:67623

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in MPRA Paper from University Library of Munich, Germany Ludwigstraße 33, D-80539 Munich, Germany. Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Joachim Winter ().