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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"social embeddedness"”.
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A friendly offer – fairness and social embeddedness = Baráti ajánlat – méltányosság és társadalmi beágyazottság)
… my thesis is the investigation of fairness and embeddedness using tools of experimental economics. I introduce a novel approach, which enables the investigation of the interaction between fairness and embeddedness using dictator and ultimatum games. / === / Értekezésem fő kérdése tehát a …
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Maybe less is more : congregation size and social embeddedness in the age of the megachurch.
… the relationship between congregation size and social embeddedness. Using multilevel data from the 2001 U.S. Congregational Life Survey (USCLS), I analyze the relationship between weekly church attendance and congregational belonging and friendship, and how these relationships vary across …
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When Do Ties Bind? Foreign Fighters, Social Embeddedness, and Combatant Repertoires of Behavior During Civil War
… off the battlefield are contingent on actors' embeddedness into local conflict conflicts. Using existing data on foreign fighters in civil wars, data from interviews with 50 subjects in Bosnia, combatant memoirs, as well as archival and secondary sources, I find that when soldiers are …
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Why the garden club couldn't save Youngstown : social embeddedness and the transformation of the rust belt
… and Thrift 1994; Florida 1995) and communitarian social capital (Putnam 2000) perspectives on sub-national socio-economic change processes, this thesis argues that the cities' economic divergence can be traced to differences in the social structures in which firms are embedded (Romo and Schwartz …
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New firm emergence: the significance of social embeddedness and resource bootstrapping to the process of nascent firm emergence
… faced with institutional barriers to the human, social, and financial capital resources necessary to progress to emergence. This study proposed that in the face of these barriers, successful emergence will be identified with (a) social embeddedness, i.e., efforts to endear the new venture in its …
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Examining the Role of Social Resources in Diabetes Control among Middle-Aged and Older Adults
… complications and related health care costs. Social resources are central to adherence of these self-management practices, particularly in middle-aged and older adults. Past research has examined the effect of social resources on health behaviors and health outcomes, but little has been done …
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Influence of formal and informal institutions on outsourcing of public construction projects in Uganda.
… that integrates institutional and social capital (SC) theories to examine what have hitherto been disparately employed to study their influence in policy reform implementation. By deploying this integrated framework, actors’ decision making in outsourcing process is analysed based …
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"My friends, they are people to rely on": The social foundation of business in Ghana
… growth, and exit. I further highlight the social embeddedness of this process, as ventures are based on knowledge templates acquired in full form social contacts. For the second paper, I explore post-start-up learning. I find this to be a spatially grounded phenomenon, with learning …
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De-/Constructing situations
… with the observation of a situation and its social embeddedness: settings, conventions, mechanisms, behavior, signs, tactics, or the organization of space. After looking at what a situation is about and how it "functions," I try to implement myself and apply my understanding to the situation. …
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The Relationship Between Facebook Use and Religiosity Among Emerging Adults
… formed during emerging adulthood as a result of socialization with peers. The difference for this cohort of emerging adults, compared to those who have preceded it, is that they are more connected to their social network of peers through the use of social media such as Facebook. This dissertation …
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Deploying collaborative artistic co-creative methods to strategically promote eco-social regeneration for small island communities
… to live well together at a time of increasing social isolation, climate crisis and growing alienation from our place in the ecological system. Art-related activities can be featured as ways of embedding knowledge that is deeply connected to everyday life precisely within and bound to our …
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Infusion cuisine: a study of the value of foods in a pottery context across the transition to agriculture in the southern Baltic
… prestige models (Fischer 2002) acknowledge the social embeddedness of food culture, foods are also implicated in multiple evaluation processes that cross-cut the categories of ritual and mundane, prestige and subsistence. Ethnographic accounts suggest that food may be valued as perhaps medicine, …
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Part-time employment in high school years: educational, social, and psychological effects
… during the school year has deleterious academic, social, and psychological effects on high school students' achievement (Bachman & Schulenberg, 1983; Mortimer & Finch, 1986; Steinberg & Dornbusch, 1991; Wright, Cullen, & Williams, 2002). The study made reference to the theory of social …
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Emerging Market Multinationals’ Home Non-Market Advantages and their Subsidiaries’ Strategic Responses to Institutions in a Host Emerging Country Environment
… Building on a multidimensional view of embeddedness, I suggest that proactive strategies leverage deeper and wider social embeddedness mechanisms, while reactive strategies rely much more on corporate embeddedness mechanisms. I also propose that proactive responses secure an advantage in …
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Internal Contingencies To The Value Of Firms’ External Relationships: Evidence From Corporate Venture Capital
… such as its capabilities, experience and social embeddedness. While this has facilitated many important insights, it overlooks potential differences arising from the way these relationships are organized within the firms, such as the backgrounds and incentives of the people involved. In …
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Moving Boxes Closer to Home: The Role of SYSCO Corporation in Food System Localization
… systems, focusing on how factors such as scale, social embeddedness, marketness, and instrumentalism influence these indirect markets. The results indicate that these factors appear as interrelated variables, influencing these markets and the relationships between network actors. While there are …
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Moving Boxes Closer to Home: The Role of SYSCO Corporation in Food System Localization
… systems, focusing on how factors such as scale, social embeddedness, marketness, and instrumentalism influence these indirect markets. The results indicate that these factors appear as interrelated variables, influencing these markets and the relationships between network actors. While there are …
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Mind Playing Tricks: Individualism, Upward Mobility, and the Commitment to Self-Determination Among the Urban Poor
… inequalities, and the value of relationships, social embeddedness, and mutual dependence. For the urban poor - facing down long histories of marginalization, reputations for cultural backwardness, and the harmful effects of concentrated poverty – the individualistic character of the American …
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Chinese Entrepreneurship And Cluster Formation: Multi-Case Studies From East China
… also indicates that individual (entrepreneurs & social relations), and the social interactions among individuals and their institutional context are the key ingredients for forming clusters. It is suggested that the established conceptual framework, based upon the theories of …
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Social Justice without Dividing: Mapping collective social intent within the capabilities space
… approaches are often seen as reflective of the social realities of the developed, and not sufficiently sensitive to those of developing world. Sen's capabilities approach to development has also attracted one such criticism. The capabilities approach thrives on the informational …
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