Sökning: "networks and social capital"
Visar resultat 11 - 15 av 103 avhandlingar innehållade orden networks and social capital.
11. Social Capital and Regional Innovation Systems : Bridging approaches and broadening understanding of knowledge sharing and innovation
Sammanfattning : This doctoral thesis takes as a starting point that geographical location remains fundamental to gain competitive advantage for some types of firms and activities even though economic activity in general has become more global. The region is seen as the key level in which the innovative capability of firms is shaped, coordinated and governed. LÄS MER
12. Den delade skolan : segregationsprocesser i det svenska skolsystemet
Sammanfattning : In the beginning of the 1990s the responsibility for the compulsory schools shifted from the government to the local authorities, a freedom of choice was introduced, and several municipalities brought in a school voucher system. With these changes, the educational system in Sweden went from being one of the world’s most government dominated and unified, to one with a high level of freedom of choice. LÄS MER
13. Building Bridges and Breaking Bonds : Aspects of social capital in a regional strategic network
Sammanfattning : Investing in cluster formation or encouraging companies to network in regional strategic networks is a common strategy used by municipalities to promote regional growth in peripheral regions. Previous research has investigated the significance of creating regional advantages by building clusters and regional networks, but researchers have not provided much insight into the problems facing the project management trying to implement such collaboration. LÄS MER
14. Essays on Elite Networks in Sweden : Power, social integration, and informal contacts among political elites
Sammanfattning : The aim of this dissertation is to present work on a number of salient characteristics of elite relations in Sweden, studied from a social network analytic perspective. Elite integration, the distribution of elite power, and the significance of elites’ informal relations represent the three main themes explored in the original studies that comprise the thesis. LÄS MER
15. Adaptive capacity for social and environmental change : The role of networks in Chile’s small-scale fisheries
Sammanfattning : World’s small-scale fisheries (SSF) face permanent and increasing external changes and shocks that challenge their viability and potential as an engine of human sustainable development. It is broadly assumed and expected that fishers and their communities have the capacity to adapt to current and future social and ecological changes. LÄS MER
