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The China-West divide on social capital: A meta-analysis

    The mixed empirical results on the impact of social capital call for a better
    understanding of the conditioning effect of contextual differences. We conducted a
    meta-analysis to assess whether and how social capital functions similarly or differently
    between China and the West. Both network centrality and the bridging of structural
    holes are positively related to performance, but the impact of structural holes is not
    significant in China. The findings suggest that network centrality is more effective than
    the bridging of structural holes in China, whereas network centrality and the bridging of
    structural holes both have a positive impact on performance in the West.

    By
    Hongjuan Zhang, Liang Wang, Rong Han