...Wilquer Silvano de Souza Ferreira; Glaucia Maria Vasconcellos Vale; Victor Silva Correa Purpose This study examines how social actors interpret alcohol consumption as a relationally consequential practice associated with individual social capital among entrepreneurs and non-entrepreneurs in Brazil...

.... Given the heightened risk of social exclusion among humanitarian migrants – stemming from experiences of forced displacement – developing social capital is essential to their successful settlement. This study explored the capacity of the settlement service provision model to promote social capital among...

...Tulika; Pradip Ram Purpose This study examines how social capital influence sustainable livelihood outcomes among rural women entrepreneurs, emphasizing the mediating role of financial literacy and the moderating effect of market access. Design/methodology/approach Grounded in social capital...

...Isaac Nyarko Adu; Evelyn Twumasi; Leticia Bosu; Bernard Yaw Sekyi Acquah Purpose This study aimed to examine the impact of intellectual and social capital on competencies for innovative teaching in second cycle schools. Design/methodology/approach A quantitative approach was employed...

... of students seeking for an internship, and whether these have changed since the start of the pandemic. The study utilises the strength of weak ties hypothesis, social capital theory and status attainment theory to explore the changes in securing a position since the outbreak of COVID-19. Design/methodology...

...Jogeswar Mahato; Manish Kumar Jha Purpose The present study investigates the role of social capital in promoting sustainable livelihood amongst indigenous women in India. The study further analyses the mediation effect of women entrepreneurship between social capital and livelihood promotion...

... rural households conducted in the years 2021 and 2022 were employed. Findings The findings highlight the critical role played by the social capital in addressing the issues that Indian rural communities were facing in their work setting as a direct result of the COVID-19 outbreak. The embedded...

.../licences/by/4.0/legalcode This study describes and analyzes the output of academic research on the topic of social capital. The concept of social capital has attracted the interest of scholars from a range of academic disciplines, and it has been applied to explain a variety of phenomena...

...Mudit Kumar Singh; James Moody Purpose The purpose of this paper is to find theoretical and practical linkages between social capital, network and community participation. The study examines the role of popular social capital and its forms in shaping community participation under the influence...

... Kong, when the infection rate was relatively low, this paper aims to explore the role of social capital in fighting the novel coronavirus. This is a discussion paper that draws evidence from current scholarly literature and other commentaries, government policies and the personal observation...

...Tomi Oinas; Petri Ruuskanen; Mari Hakala; Timo Anttila The article is structured as follows. First, we provide a brief insight into the previous studies of the ways social capital is connected to individual performance/success within the labour market and how it is differentiated between gender...

... along with the latter while enhancing social capital. Integration means that individuals integrate opinions different from theirs to achieve an elastic and compromising state (Chou et al., 2014). Therefore, these employees will not disagree with colleagues, consequently avoiding disgusting...

...Mi Young Ahn; Howard H. Davis This paper examines the possibility of using sense of belonging as an indicator for social capital. Social capital, from the collective social capital theory perspective, is constructed from three main elements: trust, social network and participation. Social...

...Mudit Kumar Singh; Jaemin Lee Social scientists have applied the social capital framework in socioeconomic policy research (Woolcock, 1998 , 2001 ; Krishna, 2006) and acknowledged the benevolent intent of the microfinance intervention to create social capital that enables the poor...

... The purpose of this paper is to show if and to what extent in the EU countries the probability of being an active citizen depends on individual/household social capital endowment, other than on individual/household socio-economic characteristics. The paper provides a deeper insight of the determinants...

...Richard Tacon Richard Tacon can be contacted at: r.tacon@bbk.ac.uk 03 09 2019 08 10 2019 09 10 2019 It is the contention of this paper that if social capital is to be understood properly, researchers need to study its components explicitly within organisational...

... levels. Resonating with the individualized social capital perspective, the willingness of egos to offer job information, everyday and emergency support to alters is best facilitated by strong ties built through expressive action, with enough certainty to ensure the investment that helping an alter...

...Daria Salnikova © Emerald Publishing Limited 2019 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only The purpose of this paper is to analyze the relationship between social capital and subjective ranking of household economic well-being in transition countries. The current study...

..., the mediating roles of social capital, creativity and social value were investigated. Data were gathered through a survey of 168 employees of social enterprises operating in the rural tourism setting. Eight surveyors were sent out to conduct the survey. Data were analyzed by structural equation modeling...

...Kaberi Gayen; Robert Raeside; Ronald McQuaid The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the importance of social networks, and the social capital embedded in them, to secure employment if someone had become unemployed after the age of 50 years and to reveal the process of accessing...