Social network theory emphasizes that organizations need social support from the important actors in their environment just as an individual or a group of people. Having social ties with the key decision makers and the other organizations can enable flow of resources into an organization. Famous French sociologist Pierre Bordieu and other network researchers define social capital as network relations of an actor that can provide benefits. Organizations, which have broad and influential social networks, can have a significant competitive advantage over others that are having few social connections. If this assumption is valid in business life, organizations should spend their efforts to increase quantity and quality of their social connections. Their intention to form organizational social capital may lead to emergence of complex inter-organizational networks. It can be vitally important for a manager to examine and analyze these networks in the external environment. Organizations can form a network of relations by hiring individuals who can provide the required social connections, collaborating with other organizations or promoting employees who have powerful social networks to the critical positions – strategic level. In the given example, too, this kind of an advatage is described. Therefore, choice (d) is the correct answer.