Ð The policy problems posed by a lack of state capacity in developing societies now attract the attention of a growing number of scholars. Both the government failure paradigm, with its ``top-down'' emphasis, and the social capital theory, with its stress on ``bottom-up'' approaches, provide analytical frameworks that can be used to comprehend the symptoms of state incapacity reported by the mu...

A project team, set up to design and implement an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system, is essentially tasked with integrating knowledge distributed across an organization. This suggests that the social capital of members will be important. In the case study project, however, team members used their social capital to further their own personal goals rather than the ERP project goals. Moreo...

Many organizations are pursuing knowledge process outsourcing (KPO) to offshore locations. Successful KPO requires developing robust inter organizational knowledge management capabilities (KMC). However, “organizational gaps” that originate from (i) structural differences between the client and vendor’s operating procedures and (ii) cultural differences in the cultural proclivity of the individ...

The importance of managing the extended enterprise is a recurrent theme, and many consider supply chains to be the next frontier of opportunities to improve profitability and competitive advantage for organizations. Building on prior work that has identified the value creation capabilities of integrated digital platforms and relational conditions, the paper draws upon social capital theory to d...

The goal of this paper is describe and analyze the relationship between ability tracking and student social capital, in the context of poor students in developing countries. Drawing on the results from a longitudinal study among 1,436 poor students across 132 schools in rural China, we find a significant lack of interpersonal trust and confidence in public institutions among poor rural young ad...

UNLABELLED Community-Based Health Insurance (CBHI) is an emerging concept for providing financial protection against the cost of illness and improving access to quality health services for low-income rural households who are excluded from formal insurance. CBHI is currently being provided in some rural areas in developing countries and there is ongoing research about its impact on the well-bein...

BACKGROUND There are few studies of mental ill health among young people in developing countries. AIMS To measure the prevalence of common mental disorders among low-income young people in the city of Cali, Colombia and to examine associations with violence and social capital. METHOD The Self-Reporting Questionnaire was administered to 1057 young people aged 15-25 years. Social capital, vio...

A project team, set up to design and implement an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system, is essentially tasked with integrating knowledge distributed across an organization. This suggests that the social capital of members will be important. In the case study project, however, team members used their social capital to further their own personal goals rather than the ERP project goals. Moreo...

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the objective of the present research is to study the effect of the social capital on the competitive behavior of the companies with the applied nature. the research method is descriptive-analytic and has a correlational type.the statistical population of the research includes sixty managers of the food industry companies in hamedan. the statistical sample of the research includes fifty two man...