The Handbook of Social Capital offers an important contribution to the study of bonding and bridging social capital networks, balancing the'troika' of sociology, political science and economics. Eminent contributors, including Nobel Prize winner Elinor Ostrom, explore the different scientific...

1. Introduction -- 2. Individual-level influences -- 3. Firm- and team-level influences -- 4. External environmental influences -- 5. Relationships, networks, and social capital -- 6. Organizational learning -- 7. Capabilities -- 8. Orientation and strategy -- 9. Performance and innovation outcomes.

Introduction / Kleio Akrivou -- Part I the common good in history: virtue epistemology as knowledge foundation for the relationships between institutions, society and person(s) -- 1. The merchant and the common good: social paradigms and the state's influence in western history / Agustín...

As defined by the editors of this book, 'non-market entrepreneurship' consists of all forms of entrepreneurship not being undertaken solely for purposes of profit maximization or commercialization, and encompasses entrepreneurial activities such as social enterprise and entrepreneurship, public...

Most work on industrial ecology continues to emphasize its roots in engineering and the technological sciences. This book differs in that it explores the social context of industrial ecology and presents empirical work addressing how cognitive, cultural, political and structural mechanisms...

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During the past twenty years there has been an explosive growth in research into environmental issues from a social science perspective. Ecological economics, in particular, has emerged as a true transdiscipline which seeks to conceptualise environmental concerns, thus allowing for the...

1. The disaster cycle -- 2. Hurricane Katrina : a classic natural disaster -- 3. The first World War -- 4. The Great Depression -- 5. Mining disasters -- 6. Tobacco -- 7. The twin financial disasters of the early twenty-first century -- 8. Conclusion.