Extent of share capital: a proposal for operational measures.

Summary The objective of this article is, on the one hand, to review the debates on the notion of social capital and, in particular, on its measurement and, on the other hand, to show that it is possible to provide researchers and managers with an operational tool to measure social capital in a fine-tuned and open source manner. We present here the stakes of social capital in the light of economic and managerial issues and the available tools, highlighting their shortcomings. We also discuss the existing measures of social capital and their limitations and propose an operational measure, based on two concepts, which we call "relational strength" and "relational potential", that allow actors to position themselves within their social universe.