Purpose Multinational enterprises (MNEs) establish a wide range of alliances to access the critical resources that they may need at any one time. Although inter-organizational relationships (IORs) constitute channels through which social capital flows, MNEs should consider mechanisms or characteristics relations facilitate their actual mobilization. Design/methodology/approach A definition alli...

wheat stem reserves can be an important contributor to grain filling particularly under drought conditions. knowledge concerning genetic variation in stem reserve could be empolyed to develop wheat genotypes more adapted to harsh environments. the aim of this research was to study the ability to store assimilates in stem and their re-mobilization to the grain in all the 81 iranian wheat cultiva...

Mobilization strategies are an essential part of political parties’ campaign communication. By mobilizing voters and supporters, parties promote civic participation in politics, the forms which have multiplied given possibilities user activities on social media. To define their online mobilization strategies, to choose (e.g., voting, donating, or liking sharing a post) they will seek mobilize. ...

Both social movement research and the literature on commons provide rich accounts of anti-austerity mobilizations uprisings in southern Europe. Movement studies offer important insights regarding context mobilization collective claim making. The emphasizes bottom-up practices shared ownership, self-management, co-production that move beyond institutional solutions. Although both literatures hig...

In this article, we foreground how gender, class and feminism underpin the aims modes of mobilization food politics a British first wave suffragette organization, East London Federation Suffragettes. Our discussion shows upper middle-class suffragettes excluded working-class women marginalized their political gendered classed interests, raising questions about feminist cross-class solidarities ...

This article presents the description of changes in terms of maternal, neonatal and child health due to the initiatives of Manoshi Project by Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC). Analysis of changes is also highlighted here. BRAC started the Manoshi Project to bring skilled care into the informal settlement of six major cities in Bangladesh in 2007. Three core methods including social...

The community action model is a 5-step, community-driven model designed to build communities' capacity to address health disparities through mobilization. Fundamental to the model is a critical analysis identifying the underlying social, economic, and environmental forces that create health and social inequities in a community. The goal is to provide communities with the framework necessary to ...

This study focuses on the city of São Paulo, Brazil and examines the ways in which irregular and illegal growth have influenced the collective action of social movements of the urban poor. The study describes how São Paulo grew as a socially segregated city during the twentieth century due to calculated neglect on the part of the municipal authorities. Highlighting the city’s sociospatial inequ...

The main aim of this paper is to explore theoretically important mechanisms through which economic inequalities may affect the emergence political violence given forms social mobilization they (may) generate. identifies and explores two under in unequal societies result either non-violent or violent collective action and, ultimately, conflict. first condition level cooperation between different...

Title of Document: THE DYNAMICS OF POLITICAL PARTICIPATION: AN ANALYSIS OF THE DYNAMIC INTERACTION BETWEEN INDIVIDUALS AND THEIR POLITICAL MICRO-ENVIRONMENT Stephen Wendel, Ph.D., 2012 Directed By: Professor Joe Oppenheimer, Department of Government and Politics While political choices are rarely isolated or simultaneous, the vast majority of empirical models in political science assume they ar...