A growing body of literature has started to study the impact of social capital on local development, according to Putnam's(1993) hypothesis. In this paper I focus on Italian provinces and try to relate the diffusion of social cooperatives to value added per capita. To tackle the issue of...

"Social Capital of Old People on the Example of Bialystok Residents" is a book based on theoretical and empirical study, which presents an issue of diagnosing and using of old people social capital in the local and regional development processes. This issue is significant because of the threats...

The main question of this paper is to investigate if and how the voluntary sector – as an institutional agent of the third sector - matters for the local development path. By adopting a multimensional and relational approach to the development, the paper surveys, compares and overlaps three...

O presente estudo verificou e avaliou o grau de acumulação de capital social como fator de desenvolvimento local, do assentamento Che Guevara, localizado no município de Ocara, no Estado do Ceará. O índice de capital social (ICS) foi calculado com base nas respostas de um questionário...

A produção de leite e seus derivados na Região do Inhamuns tem elevada importância economica e social para as propriedades do segmento da Agricultura Familiar. O sabor diferenciado do queijo da região, abre possibilidades de tornar-se um produto de alto valor agregado por uma certificação...

The article offers some reflections on the important changes that local development has experienced along the last decades. In particular, it emphasizes the strong and increasing presence of uncertainties and the complex character of the actual urban and territorial problems. All this must be...

The essay focuses on three main topics. The first one concerns the charac-teristics of the model of local development in Italy, based on the industrial districts, and the increasing weight of these districts in the economic sys-tem. Moreover, the evolution and the transformation of the...

In this paper three components of social capital (collaboration, trust and reciprocity) on the local metalworking industry are analyzed. These components relate to contribute to the coordination on transmission of information from agents. The processes, for innovation and technological...

This paper aims to explain the role of local context in the development of start-ups’ social networks, according to a sociological perspective of entrepreneurship, which considers social capital as a main factor of success for the growth of young firms. This research problem is dealt with in...

In this paper, we deal with the analytic hierarchy process (AHP)-based group decision making using keypads. It is a way of aggregating group judgements that allows a group to enhance the validity of the outcome by including the importance of people's knowledge, expertise and experience, to...