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How change agents and social capital influence the adoption of innovations among small farmers: Evidence from social networks in rural Bolivia
Monge, Mario; Hartwich, Frank; Halgin, Daniel - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2008
interested in the design and implementation of projects and programs fostering agricultural innovation and who may want to take …
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Action, Function, & Structure; Interpreting Network Effects on Behavior in Rural Malawi
Stecklov, Guy; Weinreb, Alejandro Alexander - Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), United Nations - 2007
A long series of ethnographic and sociological studies on kinship systems and information flows in developing societies has portrayed networks as varying structurally, serving multiple functions, and expressing themselves in different types of interaction. Little of this earlier work has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005553379
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Scaling up in agriculture, rural development, and nutrition
Linn, Johannes F. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2012
of a broader process of innovation and learning. A new idea, model, or approach is typically embodied in a pilot project … & Melinda Gates Foundation: Catalyzing Agricultural Innovation by Prabhu Pingali •IFAD: Adopting a New Systematic Approach to …
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A Theoretical Analysis of the Role of Social Networks in Entrepreneurship
Leyden, Dennis Patrick; Link, Albert N.; Siegel, Donald S. - Economics Department, Bryan School of Business and Economics - 2013
Entrepreneurship involves innovation and uncertainty. We outline a theory of entrepreneurship, which highlights the … importance of social networks in promoting innovation and reducing uncertainty. Our findings suggest that this “social” aspect of … entrepreneurship increases the probability of entrepreneurial success. The results also lend credence to theories of entrepreneurship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010990965
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Toward a Theory of the Entrepreneurial Process
Leyden, Dennis Patrick; Link, Albert N. - Economics Department, Bryan School of Business and Economics - 2014
, and then choose the innovation to pursue and map a search process to discover how to bring the innovation to fruition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010886042
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SOCIAL CAPITAL FRAMEWORK AND ITS INFLUENCE ON THE ENTREPRENEURIAL ACTIVITY
Mihaela-Raluca, Badea - In: Annals of Faculty of Economics 1 (2013) 1, pp. 581-589
influence of social capital in the creation of innovation and economic growth, its dimensions in the entrepreneurial process and … dimensions and entrepreneurship, through attracting the right potential of human capital and the required level of financial …
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Innovation in virtual social networks: the widespread of new electronic currencies and the emergence of a new category of entrepreneurs
Hueber, Olivier - In: International Journal of Transitions and Innovation Systems 1 (2011) 2, pp. 163-174
The internet network hosts an increasing number of large synthetic worlds. These virtual worlds exhibit most of the characters we associate with the real world like interpersonal relationships, economic transactions, production of goods and services, political institutions… Inside these...
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A theoretical analysis of the role of social networks in entrepreneurship
Leyden, Dennis P.; Link, Albert N.; Siegel, Donald S. - In: Research Policy 43 (2014) 7, pp. 1157-1163
Entrepreneurship involves innovation and uncertainty. We outline a theory of entrepreneurship, which highlights the … importance of social networks in promoting innovation and reducing uncertainty. Our findings suggest that this “social” aspect of … entrepreneurship increases the probability of entrepreneurial success. The results also lend credence to theories of entrepreneurship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011046477
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Contemporary Studies in Entrepreneurship: All Inclusive. A Review on Book: Contemporary Classical Theorists of Entrepreneurship: Laureates of the International Award for Entreprene...
Alimova, Tatyana - In: Journal of Economic Sociology 15 (2014) 2, pp. 119-126
Today entrepreneurship as an interdisciplinary area of research attracts increased attention of representatives of … together storming economic, sociological, psychological and managerial principles of entrepreneurship. The reviewed book has … discussions on theory, methodology and practice of entrepreneurship research at the international level. After all, there is a …
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General problems related to innovation and its potential in the Hungarian agro-food sector
Husti, Istvan - In: Studies in Agricultural Economics (2009) 109
This paper stresses that innovation in Hungary leaves something to be desired, and a perpetual lack of innovation also … agriculture in a critical situation. To avoid this, the conditions for innovation and innovation performance must be improved. The … system of innovation in the Hungarian agro-food sector does not lend itself to the application of the model constructed on R …
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