We study the development of a social norm of trust and reciprocity via the contagious strategy as de ned in Kandori (1992) among a group of strangers. The players anonymously and randomly meet each other and play a binary trust game in the in nite horizon. In order to provide the investors with proper incentives to follow the contagious strategy, the su cient condition requires that there exist...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to bring clarity to the concept of social capital in the value creation in firms from the knowledge management perspective. To discuss the social characteristics of different types of knowledge. Design/methodology/approach – Based on a review of the literature, it is argued that different types of knowledge have the distinctive logic of value creation and ...

this paper aimed to investigate the relationship between components of social capital (security, trust, social norms, social networks and participation in social activities) and physical activity participation among the adolescent students in yazd city. the statistical population of the study included adolescent students (14-17 years old) from yazd city. 382 adolescents were randomly selected t...

Within the discussion around sustainable diets, seafood consumption is still a relatively neglected field. This article discusses relevant behaviours consumers can perform to consume seafood sustainably. The predictive power of intention, descriptive social norms, trust, awareness and pro-environmental attitudes are theoretically discussed and statistically tested across two studies in regards ...

This chapter is concerned with the dynamics of social norms. In particular the chapter concentrates on the lifecycle that social norms go through, focusing on the generation of norms, the way that norms spread and stabilize, and finally evolve. We also discuss the cognitive mechanisms behind norm compliance, the role of culture in norm dynamics, and the way that trust affects norm dynamics. 199...

this paper aims to study the relationship between social capital and culture of citizenship as key elements of social sciences.  in the recent decades, the variables such as social cooperation, solidarity, trust and awareness have been discussed by sociologists as the fundamental factors of social capital and the values and norms of citizenship. thus, the current research aims at specifying the...