Search Results - subject:"Social Relationships"

Normative and enforcement asymmetries in cross cultural brokerage

Goxe, François; Mitussis, Darryn - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2011

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From Bad to Worse ? The Survival of Guanxi and Corruption in the Evolving Institutional and Legal Context

Goxe, François; Mitussis, Darryn - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2010

Recent history has not favoured China with a stable legal and regulatory environment. Instead, personal connections – guanxi – enabled individuals and their networks access to support and resources. As the clarity of laws improves, functioning markets established and mechanisms for...

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Measuring Social Isolation in Older Adults: Development and Initial Validation of the Friendship Scale

Hawthorne, Graeme - In: Social Indicators Research 77 (2006) 3, pp. 521-548

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The Social Assimilation of Immigrants

Palo, Domenico de; Faini, Riccardo; Venturini, Alessandra - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

Policy makers in migrant-receiving countries must often strike a delicate balance between economic needs, that would dictate a substantial increase in the number of foreign workers, and political and electoral imperatives, that typically result in highly restrictive immigration policies....

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The Social Assimilation of Immigrants

de Palo, Domenico; Faini, Riccardo; Venturini, Alessandra - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

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Milieu as a pertinent unit of analysis in project marketing

Cova, Bernard; Mazet, Florence; Salle, Robert - In: International Business Review 5 (1996) 6, pp. 647-664

The purpose of this article is to shift gear from the purely economic to the socioeconomic level in project marketing and consequently to demonstrate that project marketing consists, to a certain extent, in the management of a firm's relationships to a local network of business and non-business...

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Social relationships and business networks: The case of Western companies in China

Björkman, Ingmar; Kock, Sören - In: International Business Review 4 (1995) 4, pp. 519-535

This article discusses the role played by social relationships when penetrating a foreign business network. In the …-Chinese employees the role of social relationships in the marketing of projects and industrial goods by Western companies in China. In … social relationships in China are discussed, and different ways to develop such relationships are suggested. The choice of …

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China Peril or China Mania ? Entrepreneurs' “host” country perceptions, social interactions, and internationalization.

Goxe, François - Université Paris-Dauphine

This paper examines how entrepreneurs' perceptions of a foreign country prior to internationalization are affected by social interactions with peers and other actors during initial approaches of that country and what consequences do these evolving perceptions have upon internationalization...

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Social relationships of men at risk for AIDS

O'Brien, Kerth; Wortman, Camille B.; Kessler, Ronald C.; … - In: Social Science & Medicine 36 (1993) 9, pp. 1161-1167

features of social relationships that were most conductive to changes in both psychological health and AIDS-related sexual risk … accepted by others) was related to a higher level of risk activity. These findings are discussed in terms of the social … relationships among community members that share a common stressor--in this case the shared problem of being at risk for AIDS. …

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