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social capital theories  

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  • Social capital theories examine the moral resources and moral and collective goods that people invest in each other as members of a family, workplace, community, society, or nation. Moral goods such as truth, unlike other goods, are measured in value rather than price. [Source: Encyclopedia of Leadership; Social Capital Theories]

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