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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Structural Holes"”.
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Social Capital, Structural Holes, and entrepreneurship: A study on refugees entrepreneurship in Kenya
In the past decade the refugee population has more than doubled with more than 89 million people forced to flee their homes. Kenya presents a unique context through its encampment policy by which more than 500,000 refugees and asylum seekers are put in refugee camps in rural parts of the country …
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Structural Holes and Simmelian Ties: Exploring Social Capital, Task Interdependence, and Individual Effectiveness
… open network characterized by large numbers of structural holes. In contrast, Coleman (1990) and Simmel (1950) have suggested that network closure, exemplified by large numbers of Simmelian ties, enables actors to develop trust, cohesiveness, and norms which contribute to effectiveness. …
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The Association Between Co-authorship Network Structures and Successful Academic Publishing Among Higher Education Scholars
… cohesion (Coleman, 1988) or one which fills more structural holes (Burt, 1992), both of which are theorized, from contrasting perspectives, to be associated with publication success. Therefore, this study examined the association of these two academic co-authorship network structures with …
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Topology of Social and Managerial Networks
… Many sociological theories such as the theory of structural holes and of weak ties relate social capital, in terms of profitable managerial strategies and the chance of rewarding opportunities, to the topology of the underlying social structure. We review the known connectivity measures for social …
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Politics, jobs and workforce development : the role of workforce intermediaries in building career pathways within Boston's health care industry
… of the labor market. However, given the current structural holes in the publicly funded workforce development system, workforce intermediaries play a critical role in serving populations who otherwise would have a difficult time entering into the regional labor market.
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Strength of weak ties in microfinance
… research also investigates Burt’s theories on structural holes (1992), brokerage and closure(2005) and network spillover (2010) can assist with the building of weak bridging ties. Microfinance is the delivery of financial services to the poor which includes credit, savings, insurance and …
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When will they (ever) learn?
… others have highlighted networks that span structural holes, a network form that encourages divergent thinking and creative problem solving. Without direct evidence, we do not know if social networks affect learning, and if they do which network forms are most conducive for learning. We …
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Strategies and Challenges for Bridging Tradition and Innovation: A Case of Tourism Management in Ebian Yi Autonomous County in China
… Second, their functions are constrained by structural exclusion and institutional fragmentation, leaving them present but ineffective. Third, three strategies emerged: enhancing structural conditions, enabling institutional empowerment, and fostering cultural integration. Academically, this …
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Social capital in Jordan: the impact of wasta on employee selection in banks operating in Jordan
… wasta as a method to transfer information over structural holes between the organisation and the job seeker.
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Networks, [Mis]trust, and Pentecostal Conversion: narratives of divergent pathways among small Black entrepreneurs in Tshwane
… are a key component of entrepreneurial networks. Structural economic sociologists tend to emphasise 'structural holes', whereby a social actor who is in a position to bridge two actors with no direct ties to each other can parlay control over information into strategic advantage. Recent …
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Manufacturing Social Capital: Social Networks through Civic Innovation Initiatives
… create collaborative relationships with firms structurally and culturally embedded in the local economy; 2) whether firms with strong innovative potential that occupy “structural holes” in these innovation networks also “bridge” heterogeneous industries to promote inclusiveness; and 3) how the …
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The mediating role of entrepreneurial leadership: an investigation of the competitiveness of SMEs in the UK South-West food and drink manufacturing
… food and drink manufacturing, this study uses a structural equation model to evaluate the relationships of interdependence between Social Capital, Leadership and Entrepreneurship Process. The mediating role of leadership in this interaction first, explains the relationship between Social Capital …
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Language change and evolution in Online Social Networks
… predictable manner, which can be modelled using structural, grammatical and temporal measures, using a logistic regression model to predict the vitality of the diffusion. With regard to network structure, we show how innovations that manifest across structural holes and weak ties diffuse deeper …
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Essays on social networks and information worker productivity by Lynn Wu.
… of a social networking tool, I find that a structurally diverse network (low in cohesion and rich in structural holes) has a positive effect on work performance. The size of the effect is smaller than traditional estimates, suggesting that omitted individual characteristics may bias the …
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Gli assetti dipartimentali ospedalieri tra strutture formali e organizzazione informale
… indicatori relazionali (centralità, densità, structural holes etc.), e Pajek per l’analisi grafica dei network. L’ultima fase è stata realizzata con l’ausilio del software statistico STATA vers. 10. L’analisi dei risultati è distinta in due 2 fasi principali. In primis è stato descritto il …
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Modelización de redes virtuales de fabricación global en la industria aeronáutica
… o cerradas o la importancia de los agujeros estructurales. También se analizará cómo los actores se enfrentan a la paradoja estratégica inherente en estas redes de colaborar con competidores o la importancia de una cultura organizacional sistémica (a nivel de red) que facilite las …
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Un nouveau modèle de développement économique (DÉ) par l’innovation : la co-innovation, l’entrepreneuriat technologique et le rôle des agents de DÉ
… works on complexity theory, network theory and structural holes and co-innovation. Twenty-one interviews have been conducted in Montréal, the Province of Québec province, France and The United States between August and December 2012 with economic developers, scientific and technological parks …