The current study examined the structural composition of the communication networks of Korean immigrants’ ethnic church community, which became the main sources of their social capital. The study measured the effect of their network characteristics (i.e., size, diversity, and centrality) on individuals’ monocultural and intercultural orientations. A total of seven hypotheses, drawn from Smith’s...

this research, which is practical and descriptive-correlational in terms of purpose and data collection, respectively, evaluates the effect of intellectual capital on the process of technological entrepreneurship (pte). the research population includes the managers and experts working in the iranian research organization for science and technology, which are 375 individuals. using stratified sa...

0167-4870/$ see front matter 2009 Elsevier B.V doi:10.1016/j.joep.2009.08.002 * Corresponding author. Address: Interdisciplinary WC2A 2AE, United Kingdom. Tel.: +44 20 7955 729 E-mail address: [email protected] (S. Kanaza We present an evolutionary psychological perspective on social capital. We first suggest that evolutionary psychology provides the most ultimate (as opposed to proximate) t...

The study of the impact of information and community technologies (ICTs) on community building has matured in recent years. Though the ‘digital divide’ remains, ICT availability has improved considerably in Australia, Canada, and the USA. Not only do a wider range of people have access to Internet technology, its use is a normal feature in people’s lives. It is now possible to investigate its e...

Building on Dixit & Pindyck (1994) model for determining investment timing, this paper develops a real options framework to understand how and when Entrepeneurs seek for Venture Capital financing. The setting comprises an established start-up firm which is deciding between a small and a large expansion project. The Entrepeneur will be seeking Venture Capital financing to carry a larger expansio...

in this study the association between social capital and entrepreneurial locus of control among small and medium-sized enterprises’ managers is evaluated. the innovation of this study is theorizing and clarifying the role of social capital and its dimensions in fostering managers' internal locus of control. internal locus of control is one of the most frequently mentioned personal characte...

Abstract The current financial crisis highlights the need to develop DSGE models with real-financial linkages and an active banking sector. This paper proposes a fully micro-founded framework that incorporates optimizing banks, the interbank market, and the credit market into a DSGE model, and evaluates the role of banks and financial shocks in the U.S. business cycles. We assume two types of h...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the determinants of police officers’ intentions to quit their current department. For this purpose, we analysed US survey data that included a large set of police officers from the Baltimore Police Department in Maryland. Our results indicate that more effective cooperation between units, a higher trust in the work partner (social capital), a higher ...

We study the role of institutional investors around the world using a comprehensive data set of equity holdings from 27 countries. We find that all institutional investors have a strong preference for the stock of large firms and firms with good governance, while foreign institutions tend to overweight firms that are cross-listed in the U.S. and members of the Morgan Stanley Capital Internation...