...innovation. Social capital, according to Fountain (1998: 85), refers to features of social organizations, such as networks, norms, and trust, that facilitate coordination and cooperation for mutual benefits. The Internet, with its associated information and human resources, has helped in the creation...

...seemed to have in mind when he wrote that social capital refers to "features of social organization, such as networks, norms, and trust that facilitate coordination and cooperation for mutual benefit." Social capital, continued Putnam, who has written frequently on civic and community life,...

...Coleman (1957, 1990). Putnam (1993a) notes: "Social capital" refers to features of social organization, such as networks, norms, and trust, that facilitate coordination and cooperation for mutual benefit. . . . First, networks of civic engagement foster sturdy norms of generalized reciprocity:...

...differences.) Societies differ in their stock of "social capital — those features of social organization such as networks, norms, and trust that facilitate coordination and cooperation for mutual benefit" (Putnam 1993, 36). These structures depend on traditions o( collaboration and a certain level...

...Robert Putnam has defined social capital in a similar fashion as "features of social organization, such as networks, norms, and trust, that facilitate coordination and cooperation for mutual benefit."62 Unlike physical capital, social capital is a resource that becomes depleted if not used...

...the Conflict Management Plan. 6 Social capital can be defined as 'features of social organization, such as networks, norms and trust, that facilitate coordination and cooperation for mutual benefit'. It is argued that 'working together is easier in a community blessed with a substantial stock...

...basis. Civil society encompasses voluntary aspects, such as those "features of social organization, such as networks, norms, and trust, that facilitate coordination and cooperation for mutual benefit" (Putnam 1993). It also encompasses structural aspects, such as institutional responsiveness...

...the nature of horizontal relations. Social capital consists of "the features of social organization, such as networks, norms, and trust, that facilitate coordination and cooperation for mutual benefit" (Putnam 1993: 36). Communities with positive economic development and effective governments...

...promote the formation of social capital, which Putnam defines as "features of social organization, such as networks, norms, and trust, that facilitate coordination and cooperation for mutual benefit" (1993b:35). 3 Horizontal networks of social interaction and the density of associational life...

...Kennedy 1997). Social capital has been formally defined as "those features of social organization, such as networks, norms, and trust, that facilitate co-ordination and co-operation for mutual benefit" (Putnam et al. 1993, cited in Harrison 1999, p. 132). The social consequences of income inequality...