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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"social tie"”.
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Constructing entrepreneurial identities: the case of entrepreneurial dyads
… in which members are bound both by a strong social tie and by a common commitment to start and manage a new business venture. The thesis builds on the work of Watson (2008) and adopts his conceptual framework for understanding how discourse shapes social identities and how these are used to …
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Strength matters : tie strength as a causal driver of networks' information benefits
Studies of social networks have often taken the existence of a social tie as a proxy for the transmission of information. However, other studies of social networks in the labor market propose that the likelihood of information transmission might depend on strength of the tie; and that tie strength …
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Milk, meaning and morality : tracing donated breast milk from donor to baby
… babies', the effect of which is to deny the social tie between donor and recipient, or the potential for consubstantiation. Technologies play a crucial role in aiding the milk's transformation as it follows its trajectory through four nodal points (expressing and storage, pasteurisation and …
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"it's Only Fellow Refugees Who Assist:" Social Capital, Social Institutions, And Self-Reliance In Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya
… crucial role of humanitarian organizations and social networks. Drawing on ethnographic observation and interviews with refugee households and humanitarian workers in Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya, along with weekly questionnaires with refugee families, this dissertation brings together three …
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Essays on Information Technologies, Social Networks and Individual Economic Outcomes
… pay. The last two focus on connectivity through social and communication networks and labor market outcomes. The first paper offers a simple model of how technology may be reshaping the distribution of individual income in the US between 1960 and 2008. First, is shows fractal patterns of the …
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Gender, diet quality and obesity: economic and social determinants, and their interactions, in older adults
… of factors describing the economic and social contexts in relation to healthful eating and adiposity. A systematic review of economic determinants of diet in the elderly indicated that longitudinal evidence remains limited and focused on employment-related changes affecting diet. Thus, …
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Network effect and investor’s perceptions: An empirical investigation
… in economic and investment settings. Social media is increasingly playing a vital role in influencing investors’ perceptions and investors’ decisions in the financial arena. Social media is a comfortable and easy tool to use. That’s why it has just become a fundamental part of online …
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Tra locale e translocale: disuguaglianze, mobilità e legami di stayers e movers di un’area marginale del Mezzogiorno.
… e geografiche nel determinare le disuguaglianze sociali in Italia, con un focus sul Reventino-Savuto, un’area marginale del Mezzogiorno. Basata su 52 interviste semi-strutturate a stayers (residenti) e movers (migranti), la ricerca indaga come risorse personali, reti sociali e contesti …