Stakeholder engagement involves actively soliciting the opinions and values of different groups affected by decisions, often through deliberative means, to shape decision implementation. As with many practices within public management and governance, instances of exemplary stakeholder engagement...

Social entrepreneurship is an emerging academic field generating a rapidly expanding literature on a growing range of topics. While the early stage of its development was nourished by many of the rich ideas developed within the "conventional" entrepreneurship literature, this is beginning to...

The concept of social capital emerged as an influential research theme in a number of disciplines in the past twenty years, as measured by the exponential growth in social capital literature throughout the 1990s and the early 2000s. While some of the assumptions of social capital theory have...

The Knowledge Grid has social characteristics. In the real world, people live and work in a social grid obeying social and economic rules and laws. The Knowledge Grid is a virtual social grid, where people enjoy and provide services through versatile flow cycles like cycle flows, material flows,...

Network models are ubiquitous and offer useful descriptions of a range of a wide variety of phenomena. However, such models lack a consistent and robust ontological framework and, as a consequence, network models are often not models at all, but merely descriptions composed of fragmented and...