The concept of social capital or the value that can be derived fromsocial ties created by goodwill mutual support shared language common beliefsand a sense of mutual obligation has been applied to a number of fields fromsociology to management it is only lately however that researchers in informationtechnology and knowledge management have begun to explore the idea of social . A multidisciplinary examination of the interplay between social capital the value derived from social ties and information technology the concept of social capital or the value that can be derived from social ties created by goodwill mutual support shared language common beliefs and a sense of mutual obligation has been applied to a number of fields from sociology to management it is only lately however that researchers in information technology and knowledge management have . Social capital and information technology book abstract the concept of social capital or the value that can be derived from social ties created by goodwill mutual support shared language common beliefs and a sense of mutual obligation has been applied to a number of fields from sociology to management it is only lately however that researchers in information technology and knowledge . Abstract the concept of social capital or the value that can be derived from social ties created by goodwill mutual support shared language common beliefs and a sense of mutual obligation has been applied to a number of fields from sociology to management it is only lately however that researchers in information technology and knowledge management have begun to explore the idea of social capital in relation to their fields this collection of thirteen essays by computer scientists