This paper examines the dual welfare system in India and the role of corporations as providers of social protection. The aim is to ascertain who is driving and providing social security, education, and health to informal and formal sector workers and their families. It further attempts to illuminate why corporations are taking steps to address some of welfare needs of the greater population as ...

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 ...

BACKGROUND Lower socioeconomic populations live and die in contexts that render them vulnerable to poorer health and wellbeing. Contexts of care at the end of life are overwhelmingly determined by the capacity and nature of formal and informal networks and relations to support care. To date, studies exploring the nature of networks and relations of support in lower socioeconomic populations at ...

abstract:migration is one of the main factors in regional development and social and demography policymakers pay attention to it. this phenomenon has different functions. the amount of satisfaction on dissatisfaction from migration process can be a sign of positive or negative function for migrants. the goal of this research is to survey the relation between social capital and satisfaction from...

as long as the government in the concept of urban management plays the role of “direct provider” instead of “facilitator” to improve the life’s welfare level and provide a situation for poor societies and particularly informal settlements, its sole result is the increase in the number of open mouths that their dependence on government enlarges per day. therefore the investigation of different g...

OBJECTIVE To explore factors that influence how informal caregivers manage medications as part of caring for hospice patients. METHODS Semistructured, open-ended interviews were conducted with 23 informal caregivers and 22 hospice providers from 4 hospice programs in the Chicago metropolitan areas. Qualitative analysis was conducted consistent with the grounded theory approach. RESULTS In g...

the study was designed to analyze credit receipt and enterprise performance by small scale agro based enterprises in the niger delta region of nigeria. a multistage sampling technique was adopted in selecting 264 agro based enterprises and 96 agro based enterprises that accessed informal and formal credit respectively. the heckman model was used to examine the factors affecting amount of inform...