Journal Article10.1300/J093V07N01_02
Organizational Social Capital and Religious Institutions
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TL;DR: In this article, a recently developed model of organizational social capital is used to demonstrate why religious institutions matter and examine several issues facing contemporary religious institutions, and the model is applied to the study of religious organizations.
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Abstract: In the past thirty years, a large and growing body of research in a construct called social capital has developed. Social capital scholarship has focused on three distinct levels of analysis: individual, organizational, and societal. Recent scholarship on organizational social capital has sought to explain differences in organizational-level outcomes; such scholarship might have broad applicability to the study of religious organizations like congregations. In this paper, a recently-developed model of organizational social capital will be used to (1) demonstrate why religious institutions matter and (2) examine several issues facing contemporary religious institutions.
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