Proceedings of the 12th European Conference on Knowledge ...

Marguerite Cronk
Figure 4: The relationship between social capital, knowledge sharing and intellectual capital in <strong>the</strong>
‘web 2’ enabled environment.
As mentioned at <strong>the</strong> beginning <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> paper, <strong>the</strong> constructs discussed have many components and
this discussion has taken place at a high level, identifying some <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> possible connections and
relationship that exist in <strong>the</strong> conversion <strong>of</strong> social capital into intellectual capital via <strong>the</strong> web 2 enabled
information and knowledge sharing. Questions that remain include; which types <strong>of</strong> social capital are
most important for <strong>the</strong> formation <strong>of</strong> intellectual capital, which types <strong>of</strong> social capital are best supported
by web 2 social networks, which types <strong>of</strong> web 2 technologies best engender <strong>the</strong> building <strong>of</strong> social
capital and knowledge sharing, and what types <strong>of</strong> knowledge is shared under what social
circumstances?
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