Institutional Affiliation as a Measure of Organizational Social Capital: A Case Study of Korea

It has been a widespread practice in the literature to measure organizational social capital with a summated scale of the number of memberships in voluntary associations. However, treating all associations alike may produce biased conclusions. This study therefore proposes that institutional affiliation, defined as a socially contextualized pattern of group belonging, is a form of organizational social capital. Specifically, I suggest that there...