We present the Social Farm architecture for encouraging user contribution through the profit motive. Our solution leverages the connectivity and trust relationships available in online social networks to create and operate businesses using the programming interface provided by existing online social networks. Social Farm automates the tasks of finding partners, implementing the business workflo...

Which epistemological contribution social studies of Information Systems can give to organization studies? In particular, which contribution the actor-network perspective can give? Social studies of Information Systems (Avgerou et al. 2004) are influenced by social studies of science and technology. Social studies of information systems arguments are based on case studies. The question we would...

Purpose As the provision of public services in many advanced welfare states has increasingly come to be marked by competition, social enterprises have actively been encouraged governments become involved delivery services. While evaluation complex health interventions arguably more sophisticated, this not case where enterprise is concerned: actual impacts remains significantly underdeveloped co...

Political realities and institutional structures are often ignored when gathering evidence to influence population health policies. If these policies are to be successful, social science literature on policy change should be integrated into the population health approach. In this contribution, drawing on the work of John W. Kingdon and related scholarship, we set out to examine how key componen...

neighborhood attachment is closely related to concrete and abstract conceptions that set the scene for a variety of interactions among the residents. it is on the basis of social-physical location which happens over time. neighborhood attachment also enhances the possibility of residents’ social participation in urban neighborhoods and has a bilateral relationship with residents’ satisfaction. ...