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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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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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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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Community quality of life indicators : best cases

Sirgy, Mack Joseph (contributor) - 2004

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Quo vadis, Soziale Markwirtschaft? Statement im Rahmen des Kommentargottesdienstes in der Lorenzkirche vom 19.10.2008 - erweiterte Fassung vom 30.10.2008 -

Ruckriegel, Karlheinz - 2008

Steht das christliche Denken in einem Widerspruch zur (Grundkonzeption der) Sozialen Markwirtschaft, deren 60jährigen Geburtstag wir in diesem Jahr gefeiert haben? Was ist das Menschenbild in der Konzeption der Sozialen Marktwirtschaft? In einem Aufruf zum Festakt zur Erneuerung der Sozialen...

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14.662 Labor Economics II, Spring 2005

Autor, David H.; Piore, Michael J. - 2005

The development and evolution of labor market structures and institutions. Particular focus on competing explanations of recent developments in the distribution of wage and salary income and in key institutions and organizational structures. Special attention to theories of worker motivation and...

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The role of financial information, social capital and reputation in lender decisions

Maier, Michael Shane - 2009

This Thesis contains three essays on the economic behavior of individuals. The first essay, co-authored with Andreas Blume and Douglas DeJong is an experimental investigation into the contribution of cognition in a strategic setting where the goal is to coordinate by choosing different courses...

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Social Capital and Entrepreneurial Performance in Russia: A Panel Study

Batjargal, Bat - 2000

Drawing on the social embeddedness perspective, this paper examines the impact of entrepreneurs' social capital on … the follow-up study in 1999, the study contrasts the effects of structural embeddedness, relational embeddedness and … resource embeddedness on firm performance. The main finding is that relational embeddedness and resource embeddedness have …

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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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