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Social Capital, Tourism and Socio-Economic Transformation of Rural Society: Evidence from Nepal

Shakya, Martina - 2014

Tourism has a wide range of impacts on the economy, the natural environment and the people living in a destination. In the context of poor, rural societies, many scholars have emphasized the positive impacts of tourism on local economic growth. Concern has been voiced, however, about the social...

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Social capital, transition in agriculture, and economic organisation: a theoretical perspective

Valentinov, Vladislav - 2003

Sozialkapital wird definiert als geteiltes Wissen, Vertrauen und gemeinsame Kultur, eingebettet in Netzwerkstrukturen … und andere stabile Beziehungen zwischen Agenten. Es hat sich gezeigt, dass Sozialkapital schwieriger aufzubauen ist als … ökonomisches Kapital und dass es größere Auswirkungen auf die Gemeinschaft als Ganzes hat. Die Relevanz des Sozialkapital …

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S-D Logic and CSR: the management of social capital for the value creation in SMEs

De Chiara, Alessandra - In: jbm - Journal of Business Market Management 5 (2012) 2, pp. 137-153

This paper underlines the importance of relationships with stakeholders for co-create value, according to Service Dominant Logic and Corporate Social Responsibility approaches, and the importance of the management of social capital, in order to strengthen the relational nature of firms. Focusing...

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(Post-)materialist attitudes and the mix of capital and labour taxation

König, Tobias; Wagener, Andreas - 2008

Social values shape policy outcomes. We examine the role of postmaterialism, a widely used concept in the social sciences, for the mix of capital and labour taxation chosen by a society. Following political scientist Inglehart, we define the degree of postmaterialism as the relative importance...

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Culture and tax structures

König, Tobias; Wagener, Andreas - 2012

We argue that societies with a stronger tendency towards postmaterialist life goals tilt the tax structure towards personal income taxes and away from corporate taxation. We provide empirical evidence for this correlation in OECD countries. To address endogeneity issues we then use an...

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Public policy and devolved governance: Facilitating the social and solidarity economy in the Liverpool City Region

Heap, Helen; Southern, Alan; Thompson, Matt - 2020

National policy support in the United Kingdom for the social and solidarity economy is complex, often caught between central and local interventions, both direct and indirect. According to the authors, there has been legislation, underpinned by an ideology of business deregulation and a more...

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Politiques publiques et décentralisation: Soutien à l'économie sociale et solidaire dans la Région urbaine de Liverpool

Heap, Helen; Southern, Alan; Thompson, Matt - 2020

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Does Envy Destroy Social Fundamentals? The Impact of Relative Income Position on Social Capital

Torgler, Benno; Fischer, Justina A.V. - 2006

Research evidence on the impact of relative income position on individual attitudes and behaviour is sorely lacking. Therefore, this paper assesses such positional impact on social capital by applying 14 different measurements to International Social Survey Programme data from 25 countries. We...

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Social attitudes and economic development: an epidemiological approach

Algan, Yann; Cahuc, Pierre - 2007

In this paper we develop a new empirical approach to uncovering the impact of social attitudes on economic development. We first show that trust of second-generation Americans is significantly influenced by the country of origin of their forebears. In the spirit of the epidemiology literature,...

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Can policy interact with culture? Minimum wage and the quality of labor relations

Aghion, Philippe; Algan, Yann; Cahuc, Pierre - 2008

Can public policy interfere with culture, such as beliefs and norms of cooperation? We investigate his question by evaluating the interactions between the State and the Civil Society, focusing on the labor market. International data shows a negative correlation between union density and the...

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