How do private entrepreneurs transform local social capital into economic capital? Four case studies from rural Denmark

Journal of Socio-Economics

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 631-644

  Haase Svendsen, Gunnar Lind ^a   Kjeldsen, Chris ^b   Noe, Egon ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Bourdieu; Economic capital; Forms of capital; Local communities; Private entrepreneurs; Repeated Prisoner's Dilemma game; Rural Denmark; Social capital

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956912414     PISSN: 10535357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socec.2010.06.012     Document Type: Article

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