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Showing 1 to 20 of 136 for “"social ties"”.
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When networks matter : Mexican migrants' access to the welfare state through social ties
1 PDF file (viii, 118 leaves : illustrations ; 28 cm)
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Examining the relationship between social ties and perceived effect of stress on health among employees
1 PDF file (vii, 37 pages)
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The Influence of Institutional Environment on New Venture Performance in Egypt: The Mediating Role of Social ties
… performance is contingent on the entrepreneur’s social ties. Despite the importance of social ties, limited research has examined how the institutional environment interacts with the strength of entrepreneurs’ social ties to determine the success of new ventures in Egypt. Drawing upon …
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When I'm sixty-four : social ties in the housing decisions of the elderly in the housing allowance experiment
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1983.
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An Examination of Cultural Repertoires and Social Ties Related to Surviving, Navigating, and Exiting Chronic Unsheltered Homelessness in Asheville, NC
… homelessness grow nationwide, understanding the social lives of people experiencing homelessness becomes increasingly imperative. This study examines how cultural repertoires learned in adolescence influence the daily lives of people experiencing chronic unsheltered homelessness (PECUH) in …
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Investigating the relationship between social ties and intention to quit as mediated by job embeddedness: A study conducted within the pharmaceutical industry
… conducive to employee retention and engagement. Social ties is one such factor that is believed to be related to job embeddedness and the intention to quit. Better understanding the role that social ties play in employee engagement and the intention to quit will hopefully aid the development of …
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Social ties and farmers’ market access in Ghana: Structural Characteristics, Sociocultural Motives and Consequences of Social Capital-Facilitated Exchanges in a Subsistence Marketplace
This study explores how social ties influence farmers’ market access in the subsistence marketplace within the Sub-Saharan African regions. With the compelling evidence that smallholder farmers operate under dismal market access and the ongoing global action plan from the United Nations Decade of …
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Community and Land Attachment of Chagga Women on Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania
… states that community attachment is dependent on social ties and interactions. The three factors that lead to these ties are length of residence, social status, and age. In-depth interviews with women in 2002 and 2003, a survey from 2002, and field notes from 2002 and 2003 are used to explain the …
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Automated Discovery of Social Networks in Online Learning Communities
… insights into the operation of online communities, this dissertation applies automated text mining techniques to text-based communication to identify, describe and evaluate underlying social networks among online community members. The main thrust of the study is to automate the discovery of …
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Measuring and generating social influence using mobile telephony
… recent years, mobile telephony and manufactured social influence have received attention as tools for eliciting behavior change. This paper describes an experimental approach to studying the effect of these tools in combination. We demonstrate that mobile telephony can be used to generate social …
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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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The perceived fairness of ethnic ties-based hiring and promotion in Chadian PSOs
This thesis examines the use of ethnic ties in hiring and promotion and its perceived fairness within the multi-ethnic Chadian Public Sector Organisations. The role of social ties in hiring and promotion has been a subject of debate. On the one hand, it is characterised as nepotism or favouritism …
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Contribuições das ações psicopedagógicas em uma criança com características de espectro autista: um estudo de caso
… to children and their families, reflecting the social, academic and emotional aspects that are affected by this illness. Thus, this paper deals with the possible contributions of psycho-pedagogical actions in a child with suspected Autism Spectrum Disorder, seeking to inform and work on …
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Examining the role of mobile phones in minimising knowledge transfer impediments in students' projec teams
… were identified: nature of knowledge, social ties, time and motivation. These four were selected because literature shows that they affect project teams in academic and non-academic organisations. However the development of mobile phones and mobile technologies is promising to address …
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Socially Distant in the Age of Audit Independence: Rethinking the Impact of Social and Economic Ties on Audit Quality
… different conclusions regarding the impact of social ties on audit quality. Research on audit independence and professional skepticism treats independence rules as a mitigating factor to detection risk, suggesting that social cohesion between members of the audit triad (the audit committee, …
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Riding the dragon : entrepreneurship under market transition
… the mechanisms through which institutional and social factors impact entrepreneurial activities in developing countries. The first essay, "Evaluation or Attention", examines the causal mechanisms of social ties in venture financing. A staged model of network effects is developed, showing that …
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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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Social Networks and Individual Labor Market Outcomes - Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Panel Data
The dissertation focuses on the impact of social networks on the economic and employment opportunities of individuals. It examines the direct and indirect effects of professional ties on various labor market outcomes, such as job finding probabilities, wages, job stability, and upward mobility. …
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Social Networks, Social Support and the Working Lives of Self-Employed Young People in Ghana and Nigeria
This dissertation investigates how the social ties of self-employed youth in Ghana and Nigeria shape their transition into self-employment and impact their working lives. While many young people in the West African labour market are self-employed, there has been a lack of research into the social …
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