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About: Social system is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 2974 publications have been published within this topic receiving 92395 citations.


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TL;DR: In this paper, a social support influencer pentagram is presented of elements that, together, or separately, may affect how individuals seek, receive or perceive support in the academic entrepreneurship context.
Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to draw on literature underpinning social support to explore individual level considerations when designing social support systems for academic entrepreneurs.,The paper draws from literature in the fields of entrepreneurship, organisational support, stress and coping, and conservation of resources theory to conceptualise social support in an academic entrepreneurship setting.,Provides an expanded definition and a framework of social support. The definition signals the complex nature of delivering social support by considering mechanisms through which the concept is operationalised. These include the content of social support, relationships it occurs within, mode of delivery of support and finally outcomes of such support. A social support influencer pentagram is presented of elements that, together, or separately may affect how individuals seek, receive or perceive support in the academic entrepreneurship context. The framework may also have implications for organisations in other contexts.,Future research should explore the content, delivery mode and timing of support sought and/or received and perceived as helpful and the types of relationships within which these might occur. The impact of this on academic entrepreneurship and variation of these inputs and outputs with respect to the types of actors involved should be considered. It underscores the need, in empirical research, for in-depth understanding of the context of each incident of support regardless of organisational context.,This paper illustrates the challenges of designing a supportive culture and the conceptual contribution forewarns policy makers of the need to design multi-faceted, flexible and adaptive social support systems.,This paper seeks to establish the value and complex nature of social support as a medium to encourage academic entrepreneurship by providing a broader definition of social support and a framework of elements that may affect whether individuals seek, receive or perceive support within the academic entrepreneurship setting. To our knowledge, it is one of the first papers in an academic entrepreneurship setting which recognises the dual separate paths [based on stress and coping theory (Lazarus and Folkman, 1984) and conservation of resources theory (Hobfoll, 1989)] from the perception of support and the objective support itself to entrepreneurial outcomes. The proposed framework also seeks to contribute to a greater understanding of the ways in which social systems might influence the success of an individual academic’s entrepreneurial endeavours and those of others with whom they interact. It also contributes to the wider social support literature by providing a better understanding of how individuals might break resource loss spirals (Hobfoll et al., 2018).

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TL;DR: In this paper, an institutionalist political economy approach to capitalism is presented, where the authors look at society and economy as densely intertwined and closely interdependent, which is what traditional concepts of capitalism stood for.
Abstract: This paper outlines an institutionalist political economy approach to capitalism as a specific type of social order. Social science institutionalism considers social systems to be structured by sanctioned rules of obligatory behavior. Its perspective is one of collective ordering, or governance, through regularization and normalization of social action, either by public authority or by private contract. Political economy looks at the interrelations between collective action in general and collective rule-making in particular, and the economy; it extends from economic and social policy-making to the way in which economic interests and constraints influence policy, politics and social life as a whole. The approach proposed in this article looks at society and economy as densely intertwined and closely interdependent, which is what traditional concepts of capitalism stood for. Proceeding from an institutionalist perspective, it elaborates a concept of capitalism not as a self-driven mechanism of surplus extraction and accumulation governed by objective laws, but as a set of interrelated social institutions, and as a historically specific system of structured as well as structuring social interaction within and in relation to an institutionalized social order.

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe friendship interaction which is part of the informal social organization of elite Africans in a town in Uganda, and analyze the factors underlying the development of that organization.
Abstract: T HERE IS A GROWING LITERATURE dealing with new elite Africans in towns, but there have been few studies of their informal social networks.2 In this article I describe friendship interaction which is part of the informal social organization of elite Africans in a town in Uganda, and I analyze the factors underlying the development of that organization. Elite Africans in Uganda are more than individuals with certain socio-economic attributes. They interact with one another, despite their ethnic differences, and their interaction constitutes an elite social system. The factors underlying this system are geographical mobility and a common friendship ideology. Given the attributes of elite status in Uganda -Western education, fluency in English, employment in bureaucracies, and relative wealth-the mobility of the elite and their common friendship ideology are essential to their interaction and thus to the development of their social system. The social organization of urban elite Africans which I describe is based upon fieldwork in Mbale, Uganda, in 1965-1966.

12 citations

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TL;DR: The authors argued that applying autopoiesis, a biological concept, directly and literally to social systems in general, and to the family in particular, encounters practical difficulties of interpretation and adds no conceptual clarification or explanatory value to research in those fields.
Abstract: In this rejoinder to Zelený and Hufford's paper, “The application of autopoiesis in systems analysis: Are autopoietic systems also social systems?”,1 it is argued that applying autopoiesis, a biological concept, directly and literally to social systems in general, and to the family in particular, encounters practical difficulties of interpretation and adds no conceptual clarification or explanatory value to research in those fields. Additionally, and contrary to what Zelený and Hufford imply, social systems are not limited to cooperative units but include hierarchical command Systems as well. Discussion follows Luhmann's efforts to widen the concept of autopoiesis beyond its original biological connotations, thus making it applicable to the social sciences: social and psychic systems are not living systems, but meaning-using systems, based respectively on communication and consciousness as modes of meaning-based production rather than on individuals or even actions. Two concepts (self-observation and self...

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YearPapers
202316
202237
2021111
2020115
2019117
2018122