Social networks and the geography of entrepreneurship

Social Networks and Entrepreneurship

Social Networks, Geography, and Neighbourhood Effects

It is through personal networks that society is structured and the individuals integrated into society. ... daily life proceeds through personal ties: workers recruit in-laws and cousins for jobs on a new construction site; parents choose their children‟s pediatricians on the basis of personal recommendation; and investors get tips from their tennis partners. ... The interactions among the abst...

Defining the ‘Social’ in ‘Social Entrepreneurship’: Altruism and Entrepreneurship

What is social entrepreneurship? In, particular, what’s so social about it? Understanding what social entrepreneurship is enables researchers to study the phenomenon and policy-makers to design measures to encourage it. However, such an understanding is lacking partly because there is no universally accepted definition of entrepreneurship as yet. In this paper, we suggest a definition of social...

Substance use, social networks, and the geography of urban adolescents.

This article demonstrates a research strategy and prevention methodology for substance using urban youth that incorporates individual, social, and geographical parameters to systematically understand the ecology of risk and protection for urban youth. The primary goal of this study was to describe and analyze substance using and nonusing urban adolescents' social networks; risky and protective ...

the influence of social and cultural capital on efl students critical thinking skills

the major aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between social and cultural capital and efl students’ critical thinking skills. this study takes this relationship in to account to see if people with different sociocultural status are different regarding their critical thinking skills. to this end, 160 university students majoring in english language and literature, english trans...