Implementation capital: merging frameworks of implementation outcomes and social capital to support the use of evidence-based practices

Although there is growing recognition that the implementation of evidence-based practices is a social process, the conceptualization of social capital in implementation frameworks often conflates bonding and bridging social capital. This conflation makes it difficult to concretely operationalize social capital and limits the concept’s utility for explaining implementation outcomes. We propose a new framework of implementation capital that merges...