building inter-organizational social capital instruments to evaluate collaborative networks建立组织间社会资本工具来评估合作网络.pdfVIP

iBusiness, 2010, 2: 67-71 67 doi:10.4236/ib.2010.21007 Published Online March 2010 (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/ib) Building Inter-Organizational Social Capital Instruments to Evaluate Collaborative Networks 1 2 1 Janaina Macke , Rolando Vargas Vallejos , Eduardo Dalpiccoli Toss 1Universidade de Caxias do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil; 2Faculdade de Tecnologia TECBrasil, Porto Alegre, Brasil. Email: jmacke@.br , {rolandovvallejos, tosspuc}@ Received October 20th, 2009; revised November 29th, 2009; accepted December 30th, 2009. ABSTRACT This paper presents the development process of an inter-organizational social capital survey to evaluate collaborative networks. The survey instrument construction was based on three main sources. The first one, was a deep literature research that covered social capital and collaborative network issues. The second, a meta-analysis from well-known journals basically taken from the Business Source Premier Database. Finally, the third, was an exploratory research done in a Brazilian enterprise collaborative network. In this exploratory phase, we used semi-structured interviews, direct observation and document analysis. As a result of this work, we present two instruments for inter-organizational social capital evaluation: a qualitative instrument, built in the first stage of the study and a quantitative instrument (survey) built from the results of the exploratory phase. Keywords : Interorganizational Social Capital, Collaborative Networks, Qualitative Instrument, Survey Instrument, Brazil 1. Introduction There are also important research and projects in