***Paper submitted to the MOPAN Conference 2008*** The Dark Side of Social Capital 1 Ragnhild Silkoset Associate professor BI Norwegian School of Management Department of Marketing Nydalsveien 37 N-0484 Oslo, Norway Phone: +47 464 10 565 ragnhild.silkoset@bi.no May 2008 1 The Norwegian Research Consul and BI Norwegian School of Management provided financial support for this project. I wish to thank the following persons for valuable comments on an earlier version of this paper: Arne Nygaard, Harald Biong, Sven Haugland, Robert Dahlstrom, Aksel Rokkan, Inger Beate Pettersen, Trond Pettersen and Jon Bingen Sande. The objective data were provided by Bjørn Nygaard at Experian/Credit Inform. For technical assistance during the data collection I wish to thank Pernille Hverven, Martine Grøterud, Knut Nordheim and Steinar Kasbo. The paper is accepted for presentation at the international MOPAN conference in Boston, 2008. Sitation: Silkoset, Ragnhild (2008), The Dark Side of Social Capital. Paper presented at the MOPAN Conference, Suffolk, Boston, USA.