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Job embeddedness versus traditional models of voluntary turnover: A test of voluntary turnover prediction.

Besich, John - 2005

to be utilized in a number of ways in both academia and industry. A newer model of turnover, job embeddedness, has … recently been developed in an attempt to better predict voluntary turnover than existing models. Job embeddedness consists of … analyses were conducted on the job embeddedness model. Exploratory factor analyses were conducted on the dimensions of job …

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Determining the Criteria for Success in Social Ventures: A Case Study of Social Entrepreneurship

Gumaste, Varun - 2010

) Acceptance by the Community and Involvement of the Beneficiaries, 2) Social Capital, 3) Appropriate Level of Embeddedness, 4 …

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How Do Partnerships Lead to a Competitive Advantage? Applying the Resource Based View to Nascent Social Ventures

Meyskens, Moriah A - 2010

This dissertation is one of the earliest to systematically apply and empirically test the resource-based view (RBV) in the context of nascent social ventures in a large scale study. Social ventures are entrepreneurial ventures organized as nonprofit, for-profit, or hybrid organizations whose...

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Community quality of life indicators : best cases

Sirgy, Mack Joseph (contributor) - 2004

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Essays on Interarea Wage Determination

Winters, John V - 2009

This dissertation consists of two essays concerning the determination of wages across areas. The first essay investigates the equilibrium relationship between wages and prices across labor markets. Of central interest is the extent to which workers receive higher wages to compensate for...

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Effect of Social Capital on Performance of Smallholder Producer Organizations: The Case of Groundnut Growers in Western Kenya

Wambugu, Stella N.; Okello, Julius Juma; Nyikal, Rose … - 2009

Development literature has recently promoted the use of producer organization in linking farmers to better-paying commodity markets. However, empirical studies find mixed performance of such organizations. This study examines the producer organization’s internal factors that may explain the...

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Foreign Direct Investments as Initiators of Change: The ”Swedmilk” dairy case- Reasons behind the failure

Tuna, Emelj - 2011

Institutional problems and the corruptive use of social capital give ground for misuse ofinstitutional gaps and cause intentional failures for financial benefits. Based on socialcapital theory and transaction cost economics (TCE) this paper describes how theinstitutional environment in the...

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A comparative analysis of the purchase motivations of Fair Trade products: the impact of social capital

De Devitiis, Biagia; D'Alessio, Massimiliano; Maietta, … - 2008

Objective of this paper is to analyse themotivations in the purchase of Fair Trade (FT) foodproducts sold in the World Shops (WS) in order tocharacterize WS consumer profiles according to theethical content of their motivations. A questionnaire hasbeen distributed, at this end, to a sample of...

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Social Network Capital and Academic Careers

Medicamento, Umberto; Wilson, Paul; Rahman, Tauhidur; … - 2010

Social Network Capital and Academic Careers: The Case of a College of AgricultureABSTRACT The relationship between economic performance and various forms of capital anchors a significant portion of mainstream economic theory and applied economics. Human, physical and financial capital represent...

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Trade-off between Economic Revitalization and Social Capital: Application of Structural Equation Model in Japan

Kunimitsu, Yoji - 2010

An income inequality has been expanded in Japan and some policy is highly needed to revitalize rural areas. This study aims to show causative factors on regional satisfaction level by the estimation of the structural equation model (SEM) with data of each town in Yamagata and Yamaguchi...

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