Last update: 04/28/04. Thank you for visiting Lincoln, Nebraska, USA.
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Events are generally on the 2nd Friday of each month, at 11:45 a.m. - 1:00 p.m., CBA 222: Bring your lunch (and a guest/colleague)!
Sept. 12: No scheduled program for September
Oct. 9 (On Thursday: NOTE CHANGE OF DAY and PLACE; this event will be held in the East Campus Union, 11:45-1 p.m. ... the room number will be posted on the Kiosk):
Discussion will be led by Sandra Sattler Weber on a paper she is presenting at a leadership conference at the end of this month. "font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Times New Roman">She is a second year doctoral student at UNL, majoring in Community and Human Resources and specializing in leadership studies. Sandi has experience as an information scientist in large and small corporations and is also an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Doane College in Lincoln, Nebraska. She is currently a research assistant at the Center for Applied Rural Innovation working on community development issues.
Sattler, S. "An Analysis of Leadership and Gender in the Context of Social Capital." Working Paper. Lincoln: University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2003.
Nov. 14. In CBA 222 (with free lunch!), presentation and discussion led by Tuba Üstüner, doctoral student in marketing at Harvard University. For an abstract, see:
Selling in Complex Contexts: The Role of Social Capital.
Üstüner is exploring "..how salespeople accumulate and mobilize their social capital at each critical stage to manage the specific knowledge challenges that they face. ... (and providing) testable propositions about the role of social capital as a driver of sales effectiveness in complex sales contexts."
Dec. 11: (Please note this is THURSDAY) In the East Campus Union -UNL, John Allen, Director, Center for Applied Rural Innovation, will lead the dialogue on the paper:
Cordes, S., J. Allen, R. C. Bishop, G. D. Lynne, L.Robison, V. D. Ryan, and R. Shaffer. "Social Capital, Attachment Value, and Rural Development: A Conceptual Framework and Application of Contingent Valuation." American Journal of Agricultural Economics (in press).
January event has been canceled.
February event has been canceled.
March 11, Thursday in East Campus Union. On casting a nomological net around the construct of social capital, which in some ways takes us back to the original intent for this group: "Adding analytical precision" to the social capital construct. We seek refined analytical machinery to make the construct the most meaningful and useful for helping ensure advances in scientific knowledge about this particular phenomenon.
April and May events were canceled. The next meeting of the Interest Group will be in September, 2004. Please contact either Linda Price or Gary Lynne for suggested programs. In the mean time, consider contributing ideas to the Listserv in order to keep the dialogue about social capital going within the group!
World Bank Reading List on Social Capital. Social Capital Interest Group at Michigan State University.
NU System - Social Capital, Rationality and Community Reading List
Ideas and Articles on Social Capital.
Papers on Social Capital and Trust
Social Capital Links:
Social Capital - Italy: Site maintained at the University of Rome La Sapienza
Send e-mail to LISTSERV@UNL.EDU . In the message field (not the subject), type:
SUBSCRIBE SOCIALCAPITAL
Contact Gary Lynne and/or Linda Price with questions and suggestions, especially regarding references to papers, books you think we need to add to the Reading List and/or consider during a session.