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the objective of the present research is to study the effect of the social capital on the competitive behavior of the companies with the applied nature. the research method is descriptive-analytic and has a correlational type.the statistical population of the research includes sixty managers of the food industry companies in hamedan. the statistical sample of the research includes fifty two man...

Chronic disease is a worldwide epidemic that disproportionately affects lowto middle-income countries and regions [1]. The Chronic Care Model (CCM) is intended to address the significant societal costs and health burdens of chronic disease through redesign of the health care system and has raised awareness of the need for integration of clinical services and public health resources. To compleme...

This paper argues that the internal organization of the ̄rm and the growth process interact strongly to determine simultaneously the power of incentives within the ̄rm and the growth rate of the economy. We show how agents within the ̄rm can invest either by using their own human capital or by relying on some form of reputational capital to secure implicit relationships within the ̄rm and we di...

Using individual data from Japan, this paper investigates how a neighbor’s immobility is associated with individual investment in social capital. It is found that local homeownership has a positive effect on individual investment and that this effect for individual homeowners is about 2.5 times larger than for renters.

3. SNS AS POLYVALENT TOOLS OF MULTILATERAL ASSOCIATION 10 3.1 Reinforcing existing offline relations 10 3.2 Conserving and revitalizing older relationships 11 3.3 Efficient use of social capital and management of many "weak ties" 12 3.4 Extended reach of highly trusted weak ties 14 3.5 Empowerment of informal network relations vis-à-vis formal institutional structures 16 3.6 Lowering the thresh...