Contemporary definitions of leadership advance a view of the phenomenon as relational,
situated in specific social contexts, involving patterned emergent processes, and …

This chapter reviews social capital as discussed in the literature, identifies controversies and
debates, considers some critical issues, and provides conceptual and research strategies for …

In this work, Nan Lin explains the importance of using social connections and social
relations in achieving goals. Social capital, or resources accessed through such connections …

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme
and is available on www. bloomsburycollections. com. This book introduces the non …

Community ties with friends and relatives are a principal means by which people and
households get supportive resources. Quantitative and qualitative data from the second East …

In business-to-business settings, dyadic relationships between firms are of paramount
interest. Recent developments in business practice strongly suggest that to understand …

The concept of brokerage has gained considerable attention in recent years, but few
researchers have attempted to specify what the phenomenon is. In this paper, we develop a …

To date, most network research contains one or more of five major problems. First, it tends to
be atheoretical, ignoring the various social theories that contain network implications …

Given the growing popularity of the social network perspective across diverse organizational
subject areas, this review examines the coherence of the research tradition (in terms of …

Theory supporting the key premise of the leader-member exchange (LMX) approach to
leadership, that leaders differentiate between subordinates, has not been fully developed …