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Social Capital, Embeddedness, and Market Interactions: An Analysis of Firm Performance in UK Regions
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In this paper, the effects of social capital on small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) performance were examined. And the authors presented results of a research project examining the effect of social networks on SME performance.Abstract:
This article presents results of a research project examining the effects of social capital on small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) performance. The first main part of the article is a review of...read more
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Social Capital and Economic Performance: A Meta-analysis of 65 Studies
Hans Westlund,Frane Adam +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors summarized 15 years of empirical research at various spatial levels on social capital and economic performance, concluding that the contradictory results of studies on national and regional levels can be explained in part by insufficient measures of the main component parts of social capital.
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Unfolding Webs: The Dynamics of Regional Rural Development
J.D. van der Ploeg,Terry Marsden +1 more
TL;DR: The effects of this become particularly significant when activities and relationships start to mutually reinforce each other as mentioned in this paper, especially when new town-countryside relations emerge that support the newly emerging activities and networks.
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Learning in owner-managed small firms: Mediating artefacts and strategic space
TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on the way in which owner-managers in smaller firms improve their businesses through the creation of "strategic space" which refers to the process by which ownerman managers are able to access resources, motivation and capability to review existing practices.
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Roots to Grow: Family Firms and Local Embeddedness in Rural and Urban Contexts:
Massimo Baù,Francesco Chirico,Francesco Chirico,Daniel Pittino,Mikaela Backman,Johan Klaesson,Johan Klaesson +6 more
TL;DR: The authors analyzes the nexus among business growth, ownership structure, and local embeddedness, i.e., the involvement of economic actors in a geographically bound social structure in rural areas.
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Social Capital in the Creation of Human Capital
TL;DR: In this paper, the concept of social capital is introduced and illustrated, its forms are described, the social structural conditions under which it arises are examined, and it is used in an analys...
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Economic Action and Social Structure: The Problem of Embeddedness
TL;DR: In this article, the extent to which economic action is embedded in structures of social relations, in modern industrial society, is examined, and it is argued that reformist economists who attempt to bring social structure back in do so in the "oversocialized" way criticized by Dennis Wrong.
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Social Capital, Intellectual Capital, and the Organizational Advantage
Janine Nahapiet,Sumantra Ghoshal +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a model that incorporates this overall argument in the form of a series of hypothesized relationships between different dimensions of social capital and the main mechanisms and proces.
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The theory of the growth of the firm
TL;DR: In this article, the authors studied the role of large and small firms in a growing economy and found that large firms are more likely to acquire and merge smaller firms in order to increase their size.
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Social capital and economic development: Toward a theoretical synthesis and policy framework
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyse the notion of capital social and souligne that cette notion caracterise un reseau de relations sociales jouissant d'une certaine autonomie and d'un relatif enracinement dans la vie sociale.