This paper examines the extent to which nonprofit organizational foundings are determined by various forms of social capital. Our hypothesis is that, controlling for other relevant social, political and economic factors, communities with higher levels of social capital should experience more extensive growth in their nonprofit sectors. To test our hypothesis, we create a data set of nonprofit o...

This paper presents the findings of a study that examines the development of social capital within an Australian sporting organisation, Surf Life Saving Australia (SLSA). The study draws on the social capital literature across the not-for-profit sector and specific sport management social capital research. The research design incorporated an interpretive approach with data collected nationally ...

Geothermal energy has been harnessed for recreational uses for millennia, but only for electricity generation for a little over a century. Although geothermal is unique amongst renewables for its baseload and renewable heat provision capabilities, uptake continues to lag far behind that of solar and wind. This is mainly attributable to (i) uncertainties over resource availability in poorly-expl...

The Asia-Pacific Research Center (APARC) is an important Stanford venue, where faculty and students, visiting scholars, and distinguished business and government leaders meet and exchange views on contemporary Asia and U.S. involvement in the region. APARC research results in seminars and conferences, published studies, occasional and discussion papers, special reports, and books. APARC maintai...

While much descriptive research has documented positive associations between social capital and a range of economic, social and health outcomes, there have been few intervention studies to assess whether social capital can be intentionally generated. We conducted an intervention in rural South Africa that combined group-based microfinance with participatory gender and HIV training in an attempt...

Academic researchers have attributed significant attention to the drivers of opportunistic behavior, yet our understanding of how opportunistic behavior can be mitigated remains relatively fragmented. Our investigation will focus on the social context and more specifically on the role of social capital in the deterrence of opportunistic behavior. Based on two qualitative case studies in the fin...

At the moment, we are facing great expectations of having more effective social politics to combat poverty. Once the inefficiency of the assistance model of the 90’s was recognized, governments and third sector organizations developed many innovative projects. They opened new ways for effective interventions aimed to mobilization of the communities and the development of the social capital.

background burnout is a common syndrome associated with job stresses in the health sector personnel, especially female nurses. objectives the aim of this study was to investigate burnout and its association with types of capital among female nurses in educational hospitals of kermanshah university of medical sciences. patients and methods this was a retrospective cross-sectional study. the stud...

In this paper we analyze the pattern of returns to capital in formal and informal manufacturing sector in Ethiopia using a rich panel dataset of formal sector manufacturing firms for the period 1996-2006 and two rounds of repeated cross-sectional data from the urban informal sector firms. Returns to capital in the informal sector are higher than that of the formal sector potentially explaining ...