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Do Corporative Social Programs Generate Social Capital? A Brazilian Case Study
2013
This study focuses on the promotion of the social capital and the development of a civic community through social commitment networks, and consequently, maintaining local development. The methodological procedure adopted was the case study and, as main technique of data analysis, the content analysis was used. The programs of social responsibility of companies renowned as socially responsible from the region of Serra Gaúcha (south Brazil) were studied, analyzing their contribution to the generation or strengthening of the social capital of the reached communities. As the main result of the study we presented the proposal of a new board of indicators for social projects of private companies …
Stakeholder relations as social capital in early modern international trade
2008
Stakeholder relations that are available through networks of various sorts are one benefit from social capital. According to the stakeholder approach to organizations, those relationships that contain most of the important attributes—such as power, legitimacy, frequency of contact, and urgency—hypothetically dominate the business environment. This has caused modern corporations to view chiefly the dominant stakeholders as important. This study tests the importance of these attributes in early modern international trade; in other words, which attributes played a major role in the relations between Finnish tradesmen and their foreign contacts? The archives of two major Finnish trading houses …
Bezpieczeństwo państwa — czynniki miękkie
2019
This article is divided into three parts, in the fi rst part it is explained what social capital is, and its role in national security is depicted. In the second part, the problem of the importance of social rules in the construction of social capital is discussed. The third part of the article is the culmination of the analysis and shows the role of soft factors in the process of building national security. The quality of social capital depends on how the society works. It is strongly related to other pillars of state security, including the armed forces. The most important message from the content of this article is the statement: a strong society means a safe state.
Capitalismo e coesione sociale. Qualche considerazione sul ruolo attuale della sociologia
2015
Negli ultimi venti anni, grazie al predominio dell’ideologia della globalizzazione e dell’impresa globalizzata, imposto dai think thank del liberismo internazionale, e forse anche ad una eccessiva specializzazione delle scienze sociali, il tema delle disuguaglianze crescenti determinate dal modo di produzione capitalistico, e quello correlato dell’integrazione sociale e della coesione sociale all’interno dell’economia capitalistica, sono rimasti nella penombra dell’analisi delle scienze sociali e della sociologia (Bowles, 2009), in Italia (Gallino, 2012) più che in altri paesi, dove al contrario si assiste da molti anni ad una crescente attenzione nei confronti delle trasformazioni del capi…
The Impact Of Hybrid Infrastructure On Trust, Motivation And Knowledge Sharing In An Intentional Community: A Latvian Case Study
2013
The role of ICT infrastructure in enhancing innovation processes through fostering knowledge and information exchange is a controversial topic in regional science. Opposing views exist, in particular, with regard to two topics: a) the persistence of a specific role of geographical proximity in knowledge exchange processes in the age of global virtual networking; b) the capability of virtual networking to recreate the social assets of a physical community (trust, solidarity?). Existing studies primarily focus on aggregated data, rely on doubtful epistemological assumptions (e.g. the equation of information with knowledge), and neglect several epistemological principles of social cognition (e…
Social media influencer: a new hybrid professionalism in the age of platform capitalism?
2023
International audience; Chapter 13 Social media influencer: a new hybrid professionalism in the age of platform capitalism? by P. Sedda and O. Husson, analyses the way social media influencers, acting in the context of communities of practice, participate in redefining professionalism and professional practices in marketing and communications fields while promoting social values or advocating for a cause of public interest. Using a methodological approach based on interviews and ethnographic observation, the study considers the influencer as a specific case of “hybrid professionalism” (Noordegraaf 2007) in which quantitative performance criteria, prescribed by platforms, are combined with c…
Network position and innovation capability in the regional innovation network
2019
This paper investigates the positioning of actors characterized by different natures in a regional innovation network and explores how these actors improve their innovation capabilities by assuming prominence or brokering positions. Innovation capability is widely seen to be the driving force in building regional competitive advantage, therefore investigating how the positioning of actors improves their innovation-related activities is relevant in terms of regional competitiveness. This paper builds on a survey conducted on the Sicilian regional area in Italy. A questionnaire was used to collect data concerning the relationships established between actors and the extent to which these relat…
The effect of early career social capital on long-term income development in Finland
2020
PurposeIn this study, the authors examine whether social capital embedded in individuals' social networks is connected to employees' long-term income development in Finland.Design/methodology/approachAnalyses are based on 25–35-year-old employees from the Finnish Living Conditions Survey of 1994 combined with register data on earned incomes from 1995 to 2016. The authors used questions addressing the frequency of meeting parents or siblings, spending free time with co-workers and participation in associational, civic or other societal activities as measures of the extent of network capital. Ordered logistic model was used to examine whether the size and composition of social networks differ…
El usufructo de acciones y participaciones sociales
2018
El propósito de este trabajo es estudiar el usufructo de acciones y participaciones sociales. Se trata de una institución cuya importancia no puede ser minimizada, desde el punto y hora de que el legislador español (común y foral) hace una amplísima utilización del usufructo en las instituciones familiares y sucesorias. Ello determina que todos los días nazcan multitud de estos derechos, desde el punto y hora del conocido fenómeno del incremento de la riqueza mobiliaria de las personas y de las familias. En efecto, no cabe desconocer que si bien en otros tiempos la riqueza era fundamentalmente inmobiliaria o pecuniaria, en los nuestros el ahorro de los particulares se canaliza de forma dete…
La disciplina delle società di capitali partecipate da enti locali nella Regione Siciliana
1992
L'art. 18 della legge regionale siciliana 6 marzo 1986, n. 9, istitutiva delle Province regionali, ha riconosciuto, in via generale, la possibilità che Comuni e Province possano partecipare a società per azioni.