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Developing social capital for facilitating knowledge management practices

Monavvarian, Abbas; Asgari, Nasser; Akhavan, Peyman; … - In: International Journal of Social Economics 40 (2013) July, pp. 826-844

of SC, trust has the most influential effect on KM practices. Research limitations/implications – In spite of lacking …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010742448

Developing social capital for facilitating knowledge management practices

Monavvarian, Abbas; Asgari, Nasser; Akhavan, Peyman; … - In: International Journal of Social Economics 40 (2013) July, pp. 826-844

of SC, trust has the most influential effect on KM practices. Research limitations/implications – In spite of lacking …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010686095

Developing social capital for facilitating knowledge management practices

Monavvarian, Abbas; Asgari, Nasser; Akhavan, Peyman; … - In: International Journal of Social Economics 40 (2013) 9, pp. 826-844

of SC, trust has the most influential effect on KM practices. Research limitations/implications – In spite of lacking …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014807486

Measuring trust and commitment in collective actions

Tadesse, Getaw; Kassie, Girma Tesfahun - In: International Journal of Social Economics 44 (2017) 7, pp. 980-996

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the theoretical and empirical possibility of measuring trust and … commitment in collective actions. Design/methodology/approach The study employs choice experiments to estimate trust implicitly … as opposed to the common practice of measuring trust explicitly. Several experiments were conducted to assess members …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014807679

Trust in countries in transition: empirical evidence from agriculture

Slangen, Louis H.G.; Suchánek, Pavel; Cornelis van … - In: International Journal of Social Economics 30 (2003) 10, pp. 1095-1109

trust is an important component of social capital. In this paper, factor analysis and three regression models are employed … to analyze determinants of trust in central and eastern European countries (CEECs). The results indicate that the rule of … trust in agriculture. …

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Human capital vs social capital: Employment security and self-employment in the UK construction industry

Nisbet, Peter - In: International Journal of Social Economics 34 (2007) August, pp. 525-537

Purpose – The aim of this paper is to assess whether employment insecurity/instability is a necessary consequence of operating as a self-employed worker in the external labour market (ELM) and to examine the role for social capital to influence any such potential insecurity/instability....

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Green community entrepreneurship: creative destruction in the social economy

Gliedt, Travis; Parker, Paul - In: International Journal of Social Economics 34 (2007) August, pp. 538-553

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the process of green community entrepreneurship in the social economy by studying creative responses among environmental non-profit organizations to an external fiscal shock. Design/methodology/approach – A total of 12 managers of...

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Groups and information disclosure: evidence on the Olson and Putnam hypotheses in Japan

Yamamura, Eiji - In: International Journal of Social Economics 39 (2012) May, pp. 423-439

Purpose – There is controversy between Putnam and Olson concerning the role of groups. Putnam argued that small groups contribute to economic growth, whereas Olson asserted that small groups hamper economic growth through rent-seeking behavior. Since the end of the 1990s in Japan, there has...

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The effects of industrialization on social capital: the case of Iran

Mahdavi, Abolghasem; Azizmohammadlou, Hamid - In: International Journal of Social Economics 40 (2013) July, pp. 777-796

Purpose – This article aims to take into consideration the mechanism in which the process of industrialization affects social capital in Iran. Design/methodology/approach – In order to investigate the way in which industrialization affects social capital, a system of simultaneous equations...

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Understanding social inclusion, social cohesion, and social capital

Oxoby, Robert - In: International Journal of Social Economics 36 (2009) October, pp. 1133-1152

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to delineate the concepts of social inclusion, social cohesion, and social capital. Design/methodology/approach – This paper reviews the existing literature and uses the ideas of Amartya Sen to develop a research and policy approach to these concepts....

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