From Theory to Practice: Social Capital in Agricultural Cooperatives in Flanders, Belgium

peer reviewed ; Cooperatives are considered resilient enterprises in times of crisis, partly due to their social logic as eminent through cooperative values and principles, such as democratic governance. Increasingly, social capital theory has been applied to study cooperatives’ social relationships. In this chapter, we focus on the organizational level (Leana and Buren in Academy of Management Review 24:538–555, 1999), asking how the three dimensions of social capital as identified by Putnam (Making democracy work: Civic traditions in modern Italy. Princeton University Press, 1993) and furthe... Mehr ...