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International Journal of Management and Decision Making

 

Special Issue on: “Social Capital and Organisations”

Guest Editor: Professor K. Sankaran, T.A. Pai Management Institue, India

This Special Issue aims to explore how better performance and effectiveness in organisations is achieved through a better understanding and fostering of social capital. It will bring to the attention of readers recent developments in theory, theoretical frameworks and measurements of social capital. It will also explore the most recent empirical advances in social capital applied to intra–organisational contexts, and the development of social capital through inter–organisational systems consisting of corporates, NGOs, government and other sectors.

Subject Coverage
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Theoretical developments in social capital
• Empirical studies in social capital
• Social capital formation for for-profit and other types of organisations and across organisations
• Citizenship behaviour in organisations, intra–organisational build-up of social capital and its drivers
• Typologies and implications: types and forms of social capital and new conceptualisations
• Networks and social capital
• Trust, norms, shared values and social capital
• Communities of practice, action learning and social capital
• Knowledge management and social capital
• Social capital, complexity and self-organisation
• Social capital enabled by advances in IT and ITES
• Social capital and knowledge management
• Social capital and organisational structure, processes and strategy
• Social capital and technology development, diffusion and deployment
• Impact of social capital in functional areas/key processes in for-profit and other types of organisations
• Team building approaches: frameworks for enhancement of social capital
• Strategic alliances and social capital
• Social capital and inter cultural issues in global context for-profit and other types of organisations
• Employment practices, human resources, compensation, career success and social capital
• Social capital and entrepreneurial performance
• Social capital impact on research and development outcomes
• Social capital and the global market place
• Role of government and international organisations in promotion of intra-organisational and inter-organisational social capital
• Social capital investments

Notes for Prospective Authors

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Important Dates

Full paper: 30 July 2005

Notification of acceptance: 30 October 2005

Final version of paper: 20 December 2005