Mixing or Matching? The Influence of Voluntary Associations on the Occupational Diversity and Density of Small Business Owners' Networks
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2361975 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Amy E Davis (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Amy Davis (0000-0001-7100-1674, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, corresponding author), Linda A Renzulli (University of Georgia), Linda Renzulli (0000-0003-3213-3177), Howard E Aldrich (0000-0003-2669-5536, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 42-72 |
| Publication date | 2006-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Work and Occupations (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0730-8884 • E-ISSN: 1552-8464 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0730888405281914 |
| OpenAlex | W1984810073 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 48 |
Most employeeswork in large organizations, enjoying the potential benefits of forming career-enhancing intraorganizational networks. By contrast, small business owners must look to external contexts such as voluntary associations for their business-enhancing ties. This research discusses ways through which involvement in voluntary associations can enhance or diminish occupational diversity and density for owners' networks. Whether owners met their alters (members of respondents'business discussion network, individuals they nominated as persons with whom they would discuss business matters) in voluntary association memberships and whether comemberships are concentrated in one or dispersed among several organizations influence the occupational diversity and density of their networks. The article concludes that voluntary association memberships help owners overcome some of the career isolation produced by their social location
Business · Demographic economics · Economics · Management · Political science · Public relations · Small business · Social capital · Structural holes · Turnover · Voluntary association · Cooperative Studies and Economics · Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences · Law · Nonprofit Sector and Volunteering · Psychology · Marketing
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Time Is Our Commodity
Cosmopolitan social infrastructure and immigrant cross-ethnic friendship
We have to leverage those relationships
Social Network Analysis
Structural Holes
Gender and Organizational Performance
Bowling alone
For the Common Good
The relationship of board member diversity to organizational performance
Economic Action and Social Structure
Social resources and socioeconomic status
Access to occupations through social ties
Voluntary Associations and Social Network Structure
Who Can You Turn To? Tie Activation within Core Business Discussion Networks
A note on social capital and network content
Core Discussion Networks of Americans
Resources and Relationships
Who Cares? Toward an Integrated Theory of Volunteer Work
Sex Segregation in Voluntary Associations
Measuring Population Diversity
Gender, Children, and Social Contact
Testing a Dynamic Model of Social Composition
Collective Action and Network Structure
Homophily in Voluntary Organizations
Social Networks and Organizational Dynamics
The Web of Group Affiliations Revisited
Organizational Diversity and the Production of Social Capital
Prospecting for Participants
Changing Connectivity
Participatory Pluralism
(In) Voluntary Association
Gender Differences in Job-Related Networks
Risk, Opportunism, and Structural Holes
Birds of a Feather
Volunteering
Sex Segregation in the Workplace
Voluntary Associations and the Integration Hypothesis
On the Edge or In Between
Social Capital in the Creation of Human Capital
Women and Weak Ties
| Unique citing works | 10 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,63 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2026 (17) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |