Table 1

Four views of social capital

PerspectiveActorsIn action
Communitarian viewWomen artisan formal/informal groupsLocal artisans coming together with their crafts
Networks viewArtisan Entrepreneurs
Artisan Collectives
Artisan Cooperatives
Bridge to larger markets
Institutional viewGovernment Groups
NGO's
Policies promoting cooperatives
Synergy viewCommunity Groups
Regional Trade agreements
Government and private artisan market spaces

Source(s): Authors’ own work but adapting it to artisan entrepreneurs from “Social Capital: Implications for development theory, research, and policy,” Woolcock and Narayan, 2000, The World Bank Research Observer, p. 239. (https://doi.org/10.1093/wbro/15.2.225)

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