Firms establish a presence in a wide range of alliances to access the critical resources that they may need at any one time. Although inter-organizational relationships constitute the channels through which social capital flows, firms should consider which mechanisms or characteristics of the...

The present work addresses how and to what extent the personal and professional relationship networks of small-scale local entrepreneurs help improve their scarce resource endowments. Adopting a mechanistic and functioning oriented view of social capital, the paper suggests the existence of two...