The relationship between social capital and opportunistic behavior

Abstract

© 2019, Research Trend. All rights reserved. The article examines the mutual influence of social capital and opportunistic behavior of economic agents. Based on the application of the phenomenological method, the analysis of scientific sources, own research and author observations, they showed that greater social capital allows its subject-owner to implement opportunistic behavior in additional part of benefits redistribution in his favor due to a stable opinion of his greater rights during benefit distribution as compared to a subject with less social capital. The article studies for the first time, using the set of classical methods, the relationship between the level of social capital and the manifestations of opportunistic actions from a theoretical point of view. The practical significance of this study is explained by the fact that all main provisions and conclusions of the article can be used in scientific and pedagogical activity when they consider the issues of communication process trend nature and development, manipulative technologies, and will become the basis for the further development of methods for the quantitative assessment of social capital and the costs of economic agent opportunistic behavior. The results of the study can be used to improve the measures of state economic policy.