Capital social em rede organizacional: uma análise de suas dimensões explicativas

Abstract

This article discusses the results of a research that aimed to investigate the explanatory constructs of social capital present in an organizational network composed of companies from the electrical and electronics sector in the municipality of Santa Rita do Sapucaí, Minas Gerais state, Brazil. We started from the assumption that the capital present in the network consisted of three analytic dimensions, that is, the constructs of structural and relational nature, and those that portray the benefits and restrictions of this type of social capital. To validate this explanatory model and test the hypotheses surrounding it, we utilized the method of descriptive research anchored by Partial Least Squares Path Modeling (PSL-PM). Analysis of the results obtained from the application of structural equation modeling showed that the proposed explanatory model presents structural and nomological validity.