Template-type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Akcomak, Semih 
Author-Email: akcomak@merit.unu.edu
Author-Workplace-Name: UNU-MERIT, and Maastricht University
Title: Bridges in social capital: A review of the definitions and the social capital of 
	 social capital researchers
Abstract: There has been a recent surge of interest in social economics and social 
	 capital. Articles on social capital that are published in the last five 
	 years constitute more than 60 percent of all articles on social capital. 
	 Research on social capital is now massive and spans sociology, 
	 economics, management, political science and health sciences. Despite 
	 this interest there is still not a consensus on the definition and the 
	 measurement of social capital. This paper argues that this is due to 
	 lack of interaction between disciplines. The social capital of social 
	 capital researchers is low between disciplines. Different from other 
	 theories of capital, social capital theory has concurrently been 
	 developed by various disciplines and as such, advancements in social 
	 capital research could only be achieved by conducting cross-disciplinary 
	 research.
Classification-JEL: A13, D85, O33, Z13
Keywords: Capital, social capital, co-authorship network, network analysis, 
	diffusion processes
Series: UNU-MERIT Working Papers
Creation-Date: 2009
Number: 002
File-URL: http://www.merit.unu.edu/publications/wppdf/2009/wp2009-002.pdf
File-Format: application/pdf
File-Size: 275 Kb
Handle: RePEc:unm:unumer:2009002