There is a trend in health systems around the world to place great emphasis on and faith in improving ‘leadership’. Leadership has been defined in many ways and the elitist implications of traditional notions of leadership sit uncomfortably with modern healthcare organisations. The concept of distributed leadership incorporates inclusivity, collectiveness and collaboration, with the result that...

BACKGROUND In the recent years, social networking sites (SNSs, also called social media) have been adopted in organ donation campaigns, and recruiting opinion leaders for such campaigns has been found effective in promoting behavioral changes. OBJECTIVE The aim of this paper was to focus on the dissemination of organ donation tweets on Weibo, the Chinese equivalent of Twitter, and to examine ...

Japan continues to confront population decline and aging ranks low in terms of individual social entrepreneurship. Yoshimoto Kogyo, a leading Japanese entertainment company, launched project dispatching comedians/entertainers staff 47 prefectures activate local community collaboration support various entrepreneurial activities. This aims improve residents’ quality life alleviate economic challe...

akhbārism is one of the most important shiite jurisprudential schools. it prevailed from the early eleventh century for about two hundred years as the mainstream in some jurisprudence arenas. in a number of jurisprudential books and jurisprudential principles, some jurists have been referred to as being akhbāri. despite the many studies that have been done in the field akhbārism, providing a co...

Recognition of the role played by social capital in the way in which entrepreneurs access resources and information has grown in recent years. Social capital refers to „productive potential‟ which is derived from relationships between actors (Coleman, 1988). According to Nahapiet and Ghoshal (1998) social capital has three distinct dimensions: structural, relational and cognitive. While the str...

Entrepreneurs are often envisioned as small private start-up firms operating against all odds. Here, we investigate how in the context of the Triple Helix various entrepreneurs form communities and drive institutional and technological change. To theoretically shape a socialized view of entrepreneurship, we use the Triple Helix approach. Our empirical basis is a highly regulated sector driven b...

How do potentially optimistic entrepreneurs attract prospective investors? We investigate an entrepreneur’s decision to pursue either disclosure—where investors inspect the invention—or a contingent payment scheme (CPS) offer (e.g., salary deferral, royalty-based license)—where an invention’s value is inferred from the entrepreneur’s willingness to make her pay contingent on the invention’s suc...

This research seeks to extend previous findings concerning the relationship between entrepreneurs’ social skills and new venture performance. Two potential mediators of such effects (entrepreneurs’ success in obtaining information and essential resources) were investigated, and data were collected in a culture not included in previous studies (China). Results indicate that several social skills...

Social learning theory posits that one crucial way individuals learn how to behave is by observing andmodeling the behavior of salient others.We conducted a short-term longitudinal study using multisource data on 183 teenaged ice hockey players (M age=13.39 years) in 16 hockey teams to test the effects of 3 potentially salient leadership influences (team coaches, team players, and parents) on p...