Yanjie Bian, University of Minnesota and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Guanxi Capital and Social Eating in Chinese Cities: Theoretical Models and Empirical Analyses

John Brehm, Duke University
Who Do You Trust? People, Government, Both or Neither?

Ronald Burt, University of Chicago and INSEAD
The Network Structure of Social Capital
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Karen Cook, Stanford University

Bonnie Erickson, University of Toronto, Canada
Social Capital and Its Profits, Local and Global

Roberto Fernandez, Emilio Castilla and Paul Moore, Stanford University
Social Capital at Work: Networks and Hiring at a Phone Center

Henk Flap and Ed Boxman, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands
Getting Started: The Influence of Social Capital on the Start of the Occupational Career

Kenneth Frank, Michigan State University, and Barry Wellman, University of Toronto, Canada
Network Capital in a Multi-Level World: How Individuals,
Ties and Networks Provide Social Support in Contemporary Communities

Russell Hardin, New York University
Social Capital

Ray-May Hsung, Tunghai University, Taiwan
The Concepts of Social Networks and Guanxi: The Application to Taiwan Studies

Jeanne Hurlbert John J. Beggs, Louisiana State University and Valerie A. Haines University of Calgary
Exploring the Relationship between the Network Structure and Network Resources
Dimensions of Social Isolation: What Kinds of Networks Allocate Resources in the Underclass?

Emmanuel Lazega, University of Versailles and LASMAS, Philippa E. Pattison, University of Melbourne
Social Capital and Organizations: Multiplex Generalized Exchange and Co-operation in Organizations: A Case Study

Margaret Levi, University of Washington
Do Good Defenses Make Good Neighbors? A Transactional Cost Approach to Trust and Distrust

Nan Lin (Duke University), Ray-May Hsung (Tunghai University, Taiwan), and Yang-chih Fu, (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
Position Generator as a Measurement for Social Capital

Barry Markovsky, University of Iowa and National Science Foundation
Social Networks and Complexity Theory
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Peter V. Marsden and Elizabeth H. Gorman, Harvard University
Informal Social Ties and Social Capital in Employer Staffing Practices

Alejandro Portes, Princeton University and Dag MacLeod, The Johns Hopkins University
Family Bonds and Immigrant Achievement: Some Recent Evidence

Robert Putnam, Harvard University
New Evidence on Trends in American Social Capital and Civic Engagement: Are We Really "Bowling Alone"?

Brian Uzzi, and James J. Gillespie, Northwestern University
Social Embeddedness and Corporate Financing:
The Benefits of Social Networks in the Acquisition and Cost of Capital