The forms of reciprocity as social capital in the economic activity of small enterprise

Abstract

This research aims at elaborating and formulating the forms of reciprocity as a part of social capital in the economic activities of the small economic enterprise, kacang tore in Kawangkoan district, Minahasa, North Sulawesi. This Kacang Tore small enterprise is significant to be carried out due to the fact that this kind of small enterprise is the most dominant and generating for the local economic activity in Minahasa and this small enterprise involves doers of different function which are important to picture its contribution to increase a local economy and to design a schema for developing a small enterprise based upon social capital in the wider region or even to inspire the strengtning national economic and rural area. As a qualiative study, this study employs domain and taxonomy analizes for meetings its purpose in light of this, the result show that the functional forms of the reciprocity in the economic activity of Kacang Tore small industry are formulated into the open transfer of the business activity, the mutual help in terms of production process tool sharing the availability of information, the capital loans and the economic incentive. these forms of reciprocity are reflected in the relationship pedagang (vendor), tibo (local broker), pengusaha (small industry owner), konsumen (consumer), and pengusaha (small industry owner), pedagang besar (big vendor).

This research aims at elaborating and formulating the forms of reciprocity as a part of social capital in the economic activities of the small economic enterprise, kacang tore in Kawangkoan district, Minahasa, North Sulawesi. This Kacang Tore small enterprise is significant to be carried out due to the fact that this kind of small enterprise is the most dominant and generating for the local economic activity in Minahasa and this small enterprise involves doers of different function which are important to picture its contribution to increase a local economy and to design a schema for developing a small enterprise based upon social capital in the wider region or even to inspire the strengtning national economic and rural area. As a qualiative study, this study employs domain and taxonomy analizes for meetings its purpose in light of this, the result show that the functional forms of the reciprocity in the economic activity of Kacang Tore small industry are formulated into the open transfer of the business activity, the mutual help in terms of production process tool sharing the availability of information, the capital loans and the economic incentive. these forms of reciprocity are reflected in the relationship pedagang (vendor), tibo (local broker), pengusaha (small industry owner), konsumen (consumer), and pengusaha (small industry owner), pedagang besar (big vendor).