Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance

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Social Capital and Organizational Change

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The Intellectual Origins of Social Capital

Nobel Laureate Elinor Ostrom and her colleague Toh-Kyeong Ahn (2003) give proper credit to the Sociologist James S. Coleman (1988) and the Political Scientist Robert Putnam (1993) for bringing the concept of social capital into broad discussion among scholars. They note that few social scientists were aware of the idea prior to their foundational works and that the scope of awareness and extent of adoption in social science research and scholarship were quick to grow (Woolcock 2010). There were a scant two citations to social capital on the Web of Sciencein 1991; in 2001 that number grew to 220. Clearly, something special was featured in the work of Coleman and Putnam to attract the attention of so many scholars, and the social science literature was soon flooded with studies, laudatory and critical alike, on social capital. Researchers in various applied fields such as planning, criminal justice, public health, community development,...

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Social Capital Collective Action Organizational Change Civic Engagement Intellectual Capital 
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Authors and Affiliations

  1. 1.School of Politics, Philosophy and Public AffairsWashington State UniversityPullmanUSA
  2. 2.School of Public Affairs and AdministrationUniversity of KansasLawrenceUSA