there is no single sociological theory which can explain the full extent of women's social participation in the developing countries. an analytical framework is developed to serve the objectives of the research. this article presents a summary of most important findings on the types and intensity of women's social participation in the city of tehran. factors related to their social pa...

Online social networks (OSNs) have become an integral part of social interaction and communication between people. Reasons include the ubiquity of OSNs that is offered through mobile devices and the possibility to bridge spatial and temporal communication boundaries. However, several researchers have raised privacy concerns due to the large amount of user data shared on OSNs. Yet, despite the l...

Purpose This study aims to describe social entrepreneurs' motivation during the entrepreneurship process and identify different entrepreneurs in terms of their characteristics. Design/methodology/approach The descriptive research design uses a directed qualitative interpretative approach based on 17 cases active healthcare innovation hubs. Findings describes service context. Based key motivatio...

In this paper, we expand cultural Mindset Agency Theory. Recently, we have shown that the three bi-polar traits of a cultural agency personality (cognitive orientation; figurative orientation and operative orientation) result in eight extremal and contrasting mindset types. Through expansion of James Gross’s (1998) model of emotion regulation, and integrating this with Mindset Agency Theory, we...