In China, rapid development has prompted massive migration from rural to urban areas. Migrants’ participation in Urban Residents Committees (URCs) and other community organizations offers opportunities for the development of social capital and democracy in contemporary China. We use 2006 survey data from a stratified convenience sample of 3,024 migrant workers in 7 Chinese cities to examine ind...

Organization theory is a discipline on the boundary between economics of organizations, sociology of organizations, management and political science. She is interested in organizations, both commercial and non-commercial, in all their diversity (company, hospital, union, organization, administration, conventions). It analyzes their functioning, structure and development for the purpose of...

Abstract In the face of numerous complex challenges at ecological, economic, and social levels, Social Entrepreneurship Organizations (SEOs) offer an approach that is both solution-oriented future-oriented by combining profitability purpose. However, achievement goals closely linked to ability operate successfully in competitive environments, which differentiation strategies, particular creatio...

Purpose The last two decades have witnessed a surge of interest in social entrepreneurship organizations (SEOs). Understanding their business models is crucial for sustaining long-term growth. This paper analyses how SEOs that use the approach bricolage adapt model to develop innovation. Design/methodology/approach study used in-depth multiple comparative case studies and narrative analysis foc...

Social capital is a relatively new concept in the social sciences and is one of the most important challenges of new era in a way that based on experts’ comments, the solution for all the problems of today’s modern world is social capital. To this end, one of the problems that managers of organizations particularly; service and manufacturing organizations have faced with today is lack of trust ...

Computers and technologies are now part of the daily work environment of numerous enterprises and organizations. Social organizations are also concerned about computerization and are frequently in contact with technologies, generally used in various fields like, for instance, communication with users, workers and organizations, human resources management, treatments of social documents, and acc...

OBJECTIVE To analyze organizational characteristics of support groups that represent rheumatic patients in the Brazilian states. METHODS Initially a mapping of the desired universe was made. Contact was attempted with all organizations and they were asked to answer a structuralized electronic questionnaire with the purpose of understanding the profile of these organizations (developed initiat...

To understand and manage complex organizations, we must develop tools capable of measuring human social interaction accurately and uniformly. Current technologies that measure face-to-face communication do not measure interaction in a unified manner and often ignore remote interaction, an increasingly common communication modality. In this paper we present Rhythm, a platform that combines weara...

Sections 702 and 1110 of the Social Security Act authorize extramural research projects in the broad areas of social security. The Social Security Administration provides funding through grants to nonprofit organizations and through contracts with both nonprofit and profitmaking organizations. From time to time, as projects are completed, the BULLETIN publishes summaries of research findings. A...

Organizations aiming to foster civic engagement, such as government bodies, news outlets, political parties, and NGOs, struggle to purposefully use social media to engage young people. To respond to this challenge we conducted five group-interviews with 27 youth, 16–26 years, about their experiences of and barriers to civic engagement in social media. Our paper contributes to identifying specif...