社会杂志 ›› 2015, Vol. 35 ›› Issue (4): 177-.

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近朱者赤：基于社会网络分析方法的归国者跨国社会资本转移研究

杨张博   高山行   刘小花   

  • 出版日期:2015-07-20 发布日期:2015-07-20
  • 通讯作者: 杨张博，西安交通大学管理学院 E-mail：axins@stu.xjtu.edu.cn E-mail:axins@stu.xjtu.edu.cn
  • 作者简介:作者1：杨张博，西安交通大学管理学院；作者2：高山行，西安交通大学管理学院；作者3：刘小花，西安交通大学管理学院
  • 基金资助:
    本文受国家社会科学基金重大项目（11&ZD170）资助.

Keep Good Men Company: A Study on Transnational Social Capital Transfer of Expatriates Based on Social Network Analysis Model#br#

YANG Zhangbo, GAO Shanxing, LIU Xiaohua   

  • Online:2015-07-20 Published:2015-07-20
  • Contact: YANG Zhangbo，School of Management，Xi’an Jiaotong University.E-mail：axins@stu.xjtu.edu.cn E-mail:axins@stu.xjtu.edu.cn
  • About author:Author 1：YANG Zhangbo，School of Management，Xi’an Jiaotong University；Author 2：GAO Shanxing，School of Management，Xi’an Jiaotong University；Author 3：LIU Xiaohua，School of Management，Xi’an Jiaotong University
  • Supported by:
    The article was supported by the Major Program of National Social Science Foundation of China（11&ZD170）.

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摘要： 本文基于同质性理论、同群效应和类聚效应，建立了归国者跨国资本转移机制的模型，并根据“千人计划”学者合作者网络，计算并分析了他们的跨国学术资本转移情况。结果表明，“千人计划”学者归国后积累了更多的学术社会资本；通过“三元闭包”机制，将国外学术社会资本转移至国内；归国后所积累的资本转移效率更高；通过资本转移，“千人计划”学者有助于打破聚簇密度，引发创新级联。本研究的意义在于提出了社会资本的转移模型和计算公式，发现社会资本的转移是一个弱关系到强关系、间接联系到直接联系的过程，并通过定量的方法研究了归国者所带来的社会影响。

关键词: 合作者网络 , “千人计划”, 社会资本转移, 社会资本

Abstract:

Returning expatriates not only brought back to their native countries intellectual capital but also social capital. The transfer of academic social capital by expatriates give domestic scholars better access to foreign information, foster participation in the global academic community, and build confidence and academic reputation. But current research concerning the phenomenon of social capital transfer of expatriates is very limited.
This study proposes a crossborder social capital transfer model of expatraites by applying the theory of homophily, peer effects and group homogenization. An analysis of the data on transnational academic capital transfers, collected from the Network of Thousands of Academic Collaborators, a recruitment network of returning expatraites, shows that returnees are able to accumulate significantly more academic social capital in their postreturn career. Foreign academic social capital is transferred to the domestic academic community through a threeway triadic closure mechanism. The postreturn accumulated capital appears to be transferred with higher efficiency. With such capital transfers, returnees help break stagnation and trigger a cascade of innovation.
We propose a model as well as an analytic formula of transnational social capital transfer. We find that social capital transfer is a process, by which weak relations become strong and indirect contacts becomes direct contacts. Our research implies that crossborder social capital transfer happens when a scholar who possesses the homogenizing characters mediates between two heterogeneous groups and is able to bridge the differences. However once the transfer is completed, the mediator will lose his/her role, which leads to a decrease of clusters and an increase of cluster coefficient. Our study also examines the social impact of returning expatraites by means of quantitative methods. The paper recommends that in planning and modifying Chinese talent recruitment programs, the government should take into consideration the efficiency of social capital transfer.

Key words: social capital, transfer of social capital
, collaborators networks, recruitment program