The burgeoning interest in social capital within the technology community represents a welcome move towards a concern for the social elements of technological adaptation and capacity. Since technology plays an ever larger role in our daily life, it is necessary to articulate social capital and its relationship to technological literacy. A nationwide data was collected by area sampling, and posi...

The World Bank defines social capital as the institutions, relationships and norms that shape the quality and quantity of a society’s social interactions. Social capital is a multi-faceted concept that implies emotional attachments to relatives and friends as well as interactions between people. Existing studies of transport and its impact on the rural poor in developing countries focus largely...

Macroeconomic analyses of capital controls face a number of imposing challenges and have yielded mixed results to date. This paper takes a different approach and surveys an emerging literature that evaluates various microeconomic effects of capital controls and capital account liberalization. Several key themes emerge. First, capital controls tend to reduce the supply of capital, raise the cost...

We conceptualize international assignees as informational boundary spanners between MNC units and develop a cross-level model that explores how assignees’ social capital translates into inter-unit intellectual capital. First, as knowledge brokers, assignees create inter-unit intellectual capital by linking their homeand host-unit social capital, thereby enabling cross-unit access to previously ...

Social capital includes volume and quality of relations between human beings, which can facilitate cooperation between them. Based on numerous studies about development in the different world countries from 1988, it has been specified that social capital has an important role on development and progress of societies (1). For better understanding of social capital and its effects on society heal...

The venture capital industry is characterized by strong inter-organizational networks that have been shown to affect VC firm performance and the competitive supply of capital for entrepreneurs. We examine how VC firms’ observable resources are related to tie formation, and thus how networks facilitate the distribution and combination of resources across organizations. Unlike the social networks...

The recently introduced Part IIIA of the Trade Practices Act 1974 establishes a legal regime under which third parties can in certain circumstances obtain a right of access to services provided by certain essential facilities on fair and reasonable grounds. The policy underlying the regime is set out in the report by the Independent Committee of Inquiry on National Competition Policy (the ‘Hilm...