Review and expansion of the organizational social capital from multilevel perspective

Science Research Management ›› 2015, Vol. 36 ›› Issue (1) : 97-103.

Zhuang Yumei

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Organizational social capital is the resource which can bring the endogenous advantage. Its feature in originating from the individual interaction network determines its multi-level characteristics. But the research focusing on different levels and perspectives leads to the fuzzy framework of the concept. Based on the logic of the multilevel theory, the paper reviews the concept, emergence and efficiency from the multilevel perspective, illustrates the organizational social capital in the single level and the cross level. At last, the paper constructs an cross-level theoretical framework including its cross-level antecedents and outcomes, making clear the multilevel feature of the organizational social capital and the interrelations between the micro interaction and macro phenomena, and puts forward the problem to be advanced in the future.

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organizational social capital / multilevel theory / cross-level framewor

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Zhuang Yumei. Review and expansion of the organizational social capital from multilevel perspective[J]. Science Research Management. 2015, 36(1): 97-103

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