Search results for " Social capital"

An entrepreneur's social capital and performance: the role of access to information in the Argentinean case

2012

Purpose - The aim of this paper is to analyze the impact of an entrepreneur's social capital on their access to information, and how such access improves the performance of their entrepreneurial project. Design/methodology/approach - A structural equations model (SEM) is estimated and validated from a database including information from 282 Argentinean entrepreneurs who answered a questionnaire specifically designed for this research. The analysis of this model allowed the impact of dependent latent variables on the performance of the start-up to be determined. Findings - The performance of an entrepreneurial project depends on an entrepreneur's access to finance, markets and information. S…

DESIGNING DYNAMIC PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS TO IMPROVE THE COMPETITIVENESS, ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL CAPITAL OF ITALY

2014

The Role of Ambidexterity and Vacillation on Firms' Innovation: an Inter-firm Network Perspective

2014

This article examines the underexplored balancing between exploration and exploitation in inter-firm network dimension by applying an ambidexterity and vacillation behavior and how this impacts on different firm’s innovation performances. We propose reconciliation between exploration and exploitation within a network of inter-firm ties, by matching two specific structural network embeddedness positions that are centrality and structural holes. We observe how a firm reconciles exploitation and exploration in their inter-firm networks by adopting two different behaviors, ambidexterity and vacillation. According to the former a firm statically assumes in the same time a network position charac…

Governing Local Area Development through Dynamic Performance Management

2017

Several attempts of local areas development fail due to a predominant attention to the internal performance of public organizations. The perspective of local area development may enhance performance management in public entities by considering: a) their outcomes in the local area; b) the inter-institutional relationships actable with other local areas’ organizations to achieve such outcome; c) the improvement of the activity of other social institutions, enterprises and families, through networking and trust. This paper proposes a dynamic performance management (DPM) conceptual model to govern local area development and includes a case study of the Integrated Water System of Agrigento, Ital…

Promuovere le relazioni tra famiglie: perché?

2017

The paper aims at underlining some pedagogical reasons to promote the relations among families. Actually, in our late modernity society, that is in life contexts marked by growing individualism, utilitarian and contingent reasons are immediately evident. Nevertheless, other reasons properly linked to education and to fully human flourishing - of persons, families, communities, and societies – can be detected and highlighted. This analysis also lead us to a more accurate consideration of the value of care for our time more accurate consideration of the value of care for our time, not only on a private level but above all in the public one, as it is capable of generating new relational goods,…

Leisure, Social Capital and Life Turns in Deviant Youth

2017

Brief review of the literature on the creation of social capital within leisure time contexts to a notion of social capital in terms of “relational goods” (Arai, Pedlar, 1997; Blackshaw, Long, 2005; Hemingway, 1999) It. Claims that such studies focus both on the availability of leisure time among people belonging to different social groups and on the relation between the amount of leisure time, its allocation and the construction of social capital in the community by means of the activities people do during such time (Rohe, 2004). I discuss some studies regarding the ways in which a particular age range - youth - produces social capital in leisure time contexts and I focus on some studies r…

Report relativo all'indagine qualitativa effettuata nel territorio del Calatino Sud-Simeto

2019

Il capitolo è il prodotto di una ricerca quali-quantitativa che ha messo in luce, per quanto riguarda l’area del Calatino Sud-Simeto, un’economia disaggregata e riorganizzata solo in base a dipendenze esterne (economia marginale), del tutto simile a quella descritta da Bagnasco in Le tre Italie (1977). Allo scopo di favorire forme di cooperazione e reti inter-istituzionali di natura locale, la ricerca evidenzia le strategie di potenziamento delle capabilities (Sen 2000) della cittadinanza straniera residente nel Calatino Sud-Simeto attraverso lo sguardo degli stakeholder istituzionali e informali del territorio di riferimento. A fronte di condizioni cristallizzate (Boudon 1998; Elster 1989)…

Social capital and economic growth in Europe: nonlinear trends and heterogeneous regional effects

2016

After two decades of academic debate on the social capital-growth nexus, discussion still remains open. Most of the literature so far, however, has followed the one-size-its-all approach, neglecting that the great disparities across geographical units might have implications in this relationship. This article analyzes the role of two social capital indicators on the growth of 237 European regions in the period 1995–2007 by implementing a set of both parametric and non- parametric regressions. Whereas the former impose a linear functional form for the parameters, the latter relax this assumption providing a flexible frame in which the functional form is given by the data. The technique also …

Environmental Conflicts and Social Innovation on the Balearic Islands (Spain)

2022

New environmental conflicts arise all the time as a consequence of the industrial economy and economic growth. The search for new energy and new materials jeopardizes the margin to promote sustainable development in many local communities. In this paper, we examine a conflict related to hydrocarbons projects in the Balearic Sea (Spain) from the social innovation perspective. This novel approach allows us to focus on how socially innovative responses can be triggered by environmental threats. A set of mixed methods (qualitative analysis and social network analysis) are implemented to study the emergence and development of Alianza Mar Blava in Ibiza–Formentera. This is an initiative that succ…

User Preference and Channels Use in the Employment Seeking Process

Trust is a major issue for social capital theory and the word- of mouth concept. This paper compares social network sites with other media under consideration of trust and support. The research evaluates the difference between sources regarding trust and support to explain the situation of social network sites under consideration of the employment seeking process. The aim of this paper is the evaluation of the use of social network sites and private social networks by comparing these with job boards, company information, newspaper and official employment agency web pages. It is to identify the possible differences between information channels and the reasons for the use of different sources…