BACKGROUND Trust is critical to generate and maintain demand for vaccines in low and middle income countries. However, there is little documentation on how health system insufficiencies affect trust in vaccination and the process of re-building trust once it has been compromised. We reflect on how disruptions to immunizations systems can affect trust in vaccination and can compromise vaccine ut...

abstract background: this study aimed to explore the role of social capital within the context of the nursing profession in iran, based on the experience and perspectives of senior nursing managers. materials and methods: the study was conducted using the graneheim and lundman content analysis method. using purposive sampling, 26 senior nursing managers from the ministry of health and medical e...

Synopsis: The core issue for this study concerns the social and political consequences of the rise of knowledge societies, in particular the capacity of the Internet for strengthening democratic participation, social capital, and civic engagement in Britain. To consider these issues, Part I summarizes debates about the impact of the Internet on the public sphere. The main influence of this deve...

INTRODUCTION The purpose of this article is to investigate whether and to what degree participation in physical activity among adolescents is associated with area economic deprivation in the municipality where they live. In the study we took account of aggregated informal social capital at the municipality level and compositional effects due to spatial concentration of individual variables know...

Much research has been done on the favourable influence of social environment and social networks on knowledge production. The aim of this article is to design a theoretical framework where both information behaviour (IB) research and social capital (SC) research are integrated. Integrating these areas is seen as an advantage when focusing on the social construction of knowledge, and a model is...

As a part of corporate social responsibility, corporate donation is developing quickly in world. We used data from 290 firms in Yangtze River delta involved in contribution from the year 2004 to 2006. Based on the statistics analysis, the results are as follows: (1) Corporate donation and corporate social capital have a positive correlativity relationship. And corporate donation and corporate c...

Acknowledgement. We thank the management and employees of the three research sites for their cooperation, and An analysis of knowledge spillovers within marketing departments This paper investigates how marketing professionals' intra-departmental social network is associated with their knowledge about customers, competitors, and technology. There are three findings. First, we find no consistent...

As information and communication technologies (ICT) are disseminated into inner-city communities, we tend to assume that broader access will naturally improve the life chances of the local actors that live in these historically underserved neighborhoods. However it is also prudent to challenge this assumption through an examination of the unintentional effects. Using empirical examples from an ...

The social networks literature suggests that ties must be maintained to retain value. In contrast, we show that reconnecting dormant ties—former ties, now out of touch—can be extremely useful. Our research prompted Executive MBA students to consult their dormant contacts about an important work project; outcomes compared favorably to those of their current ties. In addition, reconnecting previo...