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Achieving success through social capital : tapping the hidden resources in your personal and business networks

Title
Achieving success through social capital : tapping the hidden resources in your personal and business networks / Wayne Baker.
Author
Baker, Wayne E.
Publication
San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, [2000], ©2000.
Supplementary Content
  • Contributor biographical information
  • Publisher description
  • 20090327033541

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Description
xvii, 238 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
Summary
"In this book, an expert on networks guides you through the process of evaluating, building, and using your social capital. Among the wealth of practical advice the author delivers, you'll discover: why social capital is so important today; the strengths and weaknesses of your networks; the types of networks that yield the best results; thirty proven practices to build entrepreneurial networks; how to use social capital ethically and invoke the power of reciprocity; how to energize your firm by building social capital as a core competence; and how to thrive in the Network Society."--Jacket.
Series Statement
University of Michigan Business School management series
Uniform Title
University of Michigan Business School management series.
Subject
  • Business networks
  • Social networks
  • Social capital (Sociology)
  • Success in business
  • Human capital
  • Soziales Kapital
  • Unternehmenserfolg
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-224) and index.
Contents
What is social capital, and why should you care about it? -- Evaluating your social capital -- Building entrepreneurial networks -- Using your social capital -- Building social capital as an organizational competence.
ISBN
  • 0787953091
  • 9780787953096
LCCN
00009554
OCLC
  • ocm44076181
  • 44076181
  • SCSB-5924382
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries