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Before Going Any Further With Social Capital: Eight Key Criticisms to Address

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The concept of social capital emerged as an influential research theme in a number of disciplines in the past twenty years, as measured by the exponential growth in social capital literature throughout the 1990s and the early 2000s. While some of the assumptions of social capital theory have been challenged individually, its limitations as a unified concept have not been adequately tackled within the academic literature. This paper is an attempt to address this challenge, identifying eight key questions that the concept needs to tackle. The paper concludes that a stronger concept of social capital will emerge only by addressing these limitations explicitly and as a cluster rather than individually.

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  • Haynes, Paul, 2009. "Before Going Any Further With Social Capital: Eight Key Criticisms to Address," INGENIO (CSIC-UPV) Working Paper Series 200902, INGENIO (CSIC-UPV).
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    1. Piotr Zmyślony & Grzegorz Leszczyński & Anna Waligóra & Wiesław Alejziak, 2020. "The Sharing Economy and Sustainability of Urban Destinations in the (Over)tourism Context: The Social Capital Theory Perspective," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(6), pages 1-26, March.
    2. Emmanuel Debrah & Emmanuel Graham, 2015. "Preventing the Oil Curse Situation in Ghana: The Role of Civil Society Organisations," Insight on Africa, , vol. 7(1), pages 21-41, January.
    3. Vincenzo Alfano, 2022. "Does social capital enforce social distancing? The role of bridging and bonding social capital in the evolution of the pandemic," Economia Politica: Journal of Analytical and Institutional Economics, Springer;Fondazione Edison, vol. 39(3), pages 839-859, October.

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