The article investigates informal ties among the Yugoslav party-state bureaucracy in 1945–1965 order to identify their influence on disintegration processes Yugoslavia. Interaction through unofficial channels was based solid social-cultural preconditions and played a significant role life of country. Informal could be formed due military service or employment, family friendship connections, but...

Drawing on a social network perspective of organizational coordination, this paper investigates the effectiveness of coordination mechanisms on knowledge sharing in intraorganizational networks that consist of both collaborative and competitive ties among organizational units. Internal knowledge sharing within a multiunit organization requires formal hierarchical structure and informal lateral ...

As an invisible informal structure embedded within organization, social network is closely related to the knowledge management activities and strategies of organization. The has potential obtain right information or at time through weak ties realize effective sharing in organization with strong ties, commercialize using capital achieve economic success. By dividing process into three stages, in...

Social capital is an important concept for multinational firms. Firms operating in global markets rarely have adequate resources to compete effectively in global markets; they access the needed resources through formal and informal relationships with other firms. The cultures in Asian countries have emphasized relationships much more strongly than Western firms. Thus, relational capital, based ...

Summary It is reported that parents with intellectual disability are generally more likely to have depleted social networks and a lack of meaningful friendships. The aim this study explore parents’ descriptions the relationships in their reflections on support what makes valuable resource parenting. Semi-structured interviews were conducted 15 mothers 6 fathers. data analysed using content anal...

In the last 50 years the shape of cities has changed dramatically. People have started to migrate from rural areas, attracted by the opportunities created by a more dynamic economy and by the apparent easier life within the cities. This trend has been observed in Europe during the whole 20th century, but has now considerably slowed down, to the benefit of smaller urban centres, which have grown...

Social support can affect health outcomes of female sex workers. In this inductive feminist grounded theory study based on 20 in-depth interviews, we explore how establishment-based female sex workers in Tijuana perceive the impact of the connections among women on their lives and health. Participants elected to discuss the importance of social support from mothers, sisters, friends, and co-wor...

During the past three decades, an estimated 200 million rural residents have moved to urban centers in China. They are "sojourners" in the cities and maintain close ties with their home communities, which we term trans-local ties. This paper examines the relationship between migrants' social ties and their mental health, and contrasts the trans-local ties with migrants' ties in the receiving co...

This study analyses whether ethnic segregation leads to social isolation and lack of access to valuable informal channels into the labour market. We use a survey of Swedish-born young adults in Stockholm, whose parents were born either in Turkey (Stratum T) or in Sweden (Stratum S). Stratum T was randomly sampled, whereas Stratum S was sampled according to the residential distribution of Stratu...