Search results for " Social Capital"

Capital social i xarxes relacionals en els processos de creació de conexement i innovació

2010

Fa aproximadament dues dècades, el concepte de capital social va ser integrat al debat i discurs sobre el desenvolupament, en termes d'un actiu de cooperació, reciprocitat i confiança, present en normes i valors, i en les relacions socials de certs grups. El concepte de capital social guarda relació amb la necessitat d'aprehendre en un sol concepte un conjunt de dimensions de la interacció col·lectiva, en les quals els individus s'han de situar a fi d'estructurar una interacció amb sentit i establir-se com a persones en la trama de normes i valors morals que constitueixen i construeixen la comunitat i la societat que es viu. Així, doncs, el capital social de forma implícita porta associada …

Uno strumento per la esplorazione dei fabbisogni di orientamento negli studenti universitari: il Career Resources Questionnaire

2021

Virtual network, emotional capital and social movements

2019

In the first chapter, I examine the strong impact of social media on the creation of virtual communities and if and how mobile technology and social networks represent elements for relational occasions, in order to and build of bridging social capital. Relational occasions are the bridges that individuals use and “cross” to create sharing on issues of social interest. Social media transform the traditional characteristics of so- cial relationships in the pre-digital age. The way technology is used changes the quality, frequency, availability, selection and exit mechanisms of social relationships. In this way, social re- lationships modify the mechanisms that generate social and emotional ca…

Economía social y dinámica innovadora en los sistemas territoriales de producción y de innovación. Especial referencia a los sistemas agroalimentarios

2008

Las cooperativas desarrollan su actividad económica de acuerdo con unos principios que pueden alimentar el crecimiento de una trama de relaciones socio-económicas (capital relacional) y socio-políticas (capital social) propicias, a su vez, para generar la confianza que requiere la cooperación entre empresas y entre éstas y el sistema científico-tecnológico. Así se podría facilitar la creación de la proximidad organizada (relacional) necesaria para dotar de fluidez a las relaciones entre actores distintos dentro de los sistemas territoriales de producción y de innovación. Pero la presencia de una amplia red de cooperativas también podría definir ciertas inercias y factores de bloqueo. Este a…

Riconfigurazioni identitarie nei contesti urbani degradati: discontinuità e riflessività

2019

Che rilevanza ha il contesto territoriale nei percorsi biografici dei residenti? Che significato assumono in un determinato territorio i turning point, le discontinuità, gli eventi imprevisti che si verificano nella vita degli individui? E ancora, perché soggetti che nascono e vivono in ambienti degradati economicamente e culturalmente riescono a cambiare il corso della propria vita che sembrerebbe ripetersi con modalità abituali per altri consociati (familiari o residenti) con esiti di degrado personale o marginalità sociale? Nell’articolo, attraverso i dati di una ricerca si svilupperà la relazione che intercorre tra discontinuità biografiche e riflessività che nei turning point influenza…

The Different Roles of Structural and Cognitive Social Capital on Oral Health-Related Quality of Life among Adolescents

2023

This study evaluated the relationship of structural and cognitive dimensions of social capital with oral health-related quality of life (OHRQoL) among adolescents. This was a cross-sectional study nested in a cohort of adolescents from southern Brazil. OHRQoL was evaluated using the short version of the Child Perceptions Questionnaire 11-14 (CPQ11-14). Structural social capital was measured by attendance of religious meetings and social networks from friends and neighbours. Cognitive social capital was evaluated through trust in friends and neighbours, perception of relationships in the neighbourhood, and social support during hard times. Multilevel Poisson regression analysis was performed…

Diseguaglianze, fiducia e capitale sociale nel Mezzogiorno

2014

How can it be explained that certain societies have a higher or lower endowment of social capital in than others? Some data will be provided here which suggest that the endowment of social capital can be traced to a certain configuration of social relationships. It is possible to identify in social relationships the reasons that motivate the social actors to not be involved in producing social capital. The aim is to explore the relationship between social capital and inequality, verifying whether the available data corroborate the argument that the shortage of social capital in the south of Italy can be attributed to a greater incidence of inequality and identifying which social mechanisms …

From the crowd to the market: The role of reward-based crowdfunding performance in attracting professional investors

2017

Abstract We focus on new technology-based entrepreneurial ventures engaging in reward-based crowdfunding and examine the effect of their performance in such funding channel on the likelihood of securing subsequent funding from professional investors. We also study how this effect is influenced by the presence of patents granted for the new product idea and the entrepreneur social capital. Results from a sample of technology projects launched on Kickstarter demonstrate that pledging a higher amount of money in crowdfunding can ignite professional investors’ interest and thus help secure subsequent funding. However, this positive evidence is effective only when complemented by the presence of…

Leisure, Social Capital and Life Turns in Deviant Youth,

2010

The production of social capital in a specific area of everyday life such as leisure & the different socio-cultural contexts it is experienced in, is a very interesting research issue, especially in the light of certain specific meanings of the notion of social capital, like Bourdieu’s or, more recently, Putnam’s. Nonetheless, this research issue is scarcely taken into consideration in Italy. Building briefly on the literature about the production of social capital in youth’s leisure contexts, this paper is going to present a research on the biographies of young people living in deviant contexts who decide to take a “turn” in their daily lives. In order to observe how the social capital pro…

Supply chain of innovation and new product development

2015

This paper conceptualizes the supply chain of innovation of a company as its supply chain not related to physical goods exchanges but to R&D commodities exchanges. R&D commodities, being the outcomes of research activities, are for example patents, technologies, research services, studies, projects, etc. Spe- cifically, we focus on the relationship between the activities of purchasing/selling R&D commodities and the propensity of the firm to develop new products; we examine how the position of the firm within its innovation network moderates this relationship. The empirical setting of the research consists of a cross- sectional dataset of 544 biopharmaceutical companies that hav…