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The RAP website features multi-year data in the following nine key indicator areas: Basic Supports, Children & Families, Demographics, Education, Employment & Economics, Health, Housing, Public Safety, and Social Capital. The RAP website provides a centralized place in the public domain for accessing accurate, reliable and timely data that tracks key indicators over time.
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An introductory guide to large scale surveys providing social capital data. This provides details of surveys which include any questions on aspects of social capital and links to related documents. This guide extends the information in the interactive question bank.
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"Family firms can have a unique specificity and advantage compared to non-family firms: they have a social capital that non-family firms cannot imitate whatever they try and decide. This unique social capital comes from the family's social capital. Family firms should play on this specificity to develop sustainable competitive advantages.
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A third possible way of measuring social capital in specific organizations may be to look at changes in market valuations of a company before and after takeover offers. The market capitalization of any company represents the sum of both tangible and intangible assets; among the latter is, presumably, the social capital embodied in the firm's workers and management. There is no accepted methodology for separating out the social capital component of the intangible assets, which include other things like brand names, good will, expectations of future market conditions, and the like. Firms being taken over by other firms... are usually bought at a premium to their pre-takeover price. In such a situation, we can assume that part of the premium being offered is a measure of the degree to which the new owners believe that they can manage the new firm better than the old owners, with all other factors like tangible assets, expectations about market conditions, etc. being held constant.
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Social capital facilitates valuable information exchange about products and markets and reduces the costs of contracts and extensive regulations and enforcement. Repeated transactions and business reputation provide the necessary incentives for parties to act in mutually beneficial ways.
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Fourth, much of the discussion of social capital has treated it as a 'good thing'. Bourdieu, at least, was interested in the notion as a way of explaining how some were able to access resources and power, while others were not. However, the scale of local surveillance that can be involved, the possible impacts around what is deemed acceptable behaviour, and the ways in which horizons may be narrowed rather than expanded are not unambiguously 'good things'.
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