This paper examines the impact of social capital on advertising performance in an online social network. Specifically, we show that a widely-employed measure of social capital—network constraint—explains variation in the number of click-throughs received by 5986 banner advertisements appearing on 25 Twitter-related websites. As predicted, banner advertisements receive significantly more clicks ...

While Traditional knowledge management emphasis is more on the technology and designing information systems, modern approaches focus more on human resources and their behaviors in knowledge sharing. So this research aims to investigate the influence of social capital on knowledge sharing between human resources of Pars Oil and Gas Company (POGC) by focusing on human features of knowledge sharin...

Background: The epidemic of obesity has turned into a major global health challenge. Environmental and social factors such as social capital, can significantly affect obesity. This study aimed to evaluate the relationship of social capital with overweight and obesity among female health-care workers. Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted in 2018 on 680 female health-care workers wh...

In this paper, we reexamine the question “Why doesn’t capital ‡ow from rich to poor countries?” posed, most recently, by Lucas (1990). We build a simple contracting framework where costly intermediation together with an adverse selection problem have quantitatively important e¤ects on capital ‡ows. When intermediation costs are ignored, the model behaves much like the neoclassical model in term...

Wagenmakers, Wetzels, Borsboom, and van der Maas (2011) argued that psychologists should replace the familiar "frequentist" statistical analyses of their data with bayesian analyses. To illustrate their argument, they reanalyzed a set of psi experiments published recently in this journal by Bem (2011), maintaining that, contrary to his conclusion, his data do not yield evidence in favor of the ...

this paper aims to consider the relationship between social capital and social responsibility in islamic azad university – firouzkouh branch. the population of research all faculty members, managers and experts employed in islamic azad university - firouzkouh branch. the sample sizeincludes 157 peopledetermined by jeris-morgan formula using the stratified random sampling method. firstly, a ques...

the main aim of this study was to investigate the relationship of students' social capital components and entrepreneurship intention. the statistical population of this study consisted of all students of university college of agriculture and natural resources, university of tehran (n=2600) among which 155 students where accessed based on cochran formula and through convenient sampling. data wer...

© 2007 Sage Public THOMAS G. PATTERSON recently graduated from the Doctoral Programme in clinical psychology at the University of Warwick and Coventry University, UK, where he completed a research thesis on the measurement of unconditional positive self-regard. He is currently employed as a clinical psychologist with North Warwickshire NHS Trust, UK, working across adult and older adult special...

This paper analyzes the effects of accumulating human capital proxied with educational level on decision to work as self-employed in Cameroon. The methodological approach mobilizes discrete-choice models data drawn from second Employment and Informal Sector Survey carried out by National Institute Statistics. By releasing hypothesis uniqueness labor market assuming that decisions wage earned ar...