For this functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study, we assessed the impact of early social experiences on the social regulation of neural threat responding in a sample of 22 individuals that have been followed for over a decade. At 13 years old, a multidimensional measure of neighborhood quality was derived from parental reports. Three measures of neighborhood quality were used to esti...

Existing initiatives in the management of construction project safety are largely based on normative compliance and error prevention, a risk management approach. Although advantageous, these approaches are not wholly successful in further lowering accident rates. A major limitation lies with the approaches' lack of emphasis on the social and team processes inherent in construction project setti...

Since Kogut & Zander (1992) argued that a firm's ability to transfer knowledge is its raison d'être, research on knowledge sharing has become one of the most promising areas of research in knowledge management. From a HRM perspective, knowledge sharing phenomena can be better analysed by shedding light on the factors that can impact on employees' (un)willingness to engage in knowledge sharing a...

the rapid changes in sport industry urge sport investors and entrepreneurs to adopt creative and innovative approaches. in this situation, intellectual property is among the most important organizational assets and the potential success of an organization is rooted in their intellectual capabilities. on the other hand, relying on innovation, small businesses are seeking to improve their perform...

This paper explored the multiple relationships between intellectual capital (IC) and knowledge management (KM) in an Iranian university. For intellectual capital, three components were studied including: relational capital, structural capital and human capital. For knowledge management, five processes were considered, namely creation, acquisition, codification, sharing and application. The rela...

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 ...