Twenty first century challenges facing agriculture include climate change, threats to food security for a growing population and downward economic pressures on rural livelihoods. Addressing these challenges will require innovation in extension theory, policy and education, at a time when the dominance of the state in the provision of knowledge and information services to farmers and rural entre...

Social Capital and Political Participation: Understanding the Dynamics of Young People’s Political Disengagement in Contemporary Britain M a t t H e n n ∗, M a r k W e i n s t e i n ∗∗ a n d S a r a h H o d g k i n s o n ∗∗∗ ∗Graduate School College of Business, Law and Social Sciences, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham E-mail: [email protected] ∗∗Graduate School College of Business, La...

Article history: Received 20 December 2004 Received in revised form 23 September 2005 Accepted 23 September 2005 Available online 16 November 2005 Ecovillages, co-housing communities, and other types of intentional communities (ICs) have proliferated in recent years. There are currently several thousands of these communities worldwide and their numbers are increasing rapidly. We surveyed a subs...

Social Network Sites (SNSs) are a success story by example. User counts as well as page visits have rocketed in recent years. In this paper we propose to utilize Transaction Cost Theory (TCT) and Social Capital Theory (SCT) to make sense of what kind of social interaction is executed on SNSs and why. In doing so we will show how TCT can be applied to SNSs by proposing to include in the theory t...

We use daily price indices obtained from the Morgan Stanley Capital International to construct realized volatility for 18 individual stock markets, including the US, and the world stock market. In contrast with the CAPM, we find that volatility by itself does not forecast excess returns in most countries; however, it becomes a significant predictor when combined with the US consumptionwealth ra...

In public administration, knowledge management (KM) is increasingly advocated for improving novelty and agility in policy development and service delivery. This study identifies factors influencing KM, theorizes their interaction effects based on the resourcebased view, and assesses the impact of KM on organizational effectiveness. Physical resources invested specifically to promote KM (e.g., K...

Abstract T he return of capital is fundamental to the intertemporal allocation of resources by changing the consumption behavior and capital accumulation over time. Taxation on return of capital increases the marginal product of capital, meaning that capital stock is lower than when capital is not taxed, which results decreased growth and welfare in steady state. This pape...

the aim of this study was investigation of effect organizational justice on the psychological capital by social capital (survey of department of youth and sport of esfahan province). this research was descriptive correlation. the study population includes all the employees' offices youth and sports of isfahan province that thire number was equal to 405 people. according to specified target...