Social Ties and Human Capital in Family SMEs’ Internationalization

2017 ◽  
pp. 59-73
Author(s):  
Masoud Karami ◽  
Cici Xiao He ◽  
Shang Zhengang
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Social Ties ◽  
Family Smes

Leadership and Sustainability

2018 ◽  
pp. 28-49
Author(s):  
Fatma Ince
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Generational Differences ◽  
Management System ◽  
Sustainable Leadership ◽  
Family Enterprise ◽  
Key Factor ◽  
Family Smes ◽  
Creativity And Innovation

This chapter on leadership and sustainability from the first to the second generations of SME Ownership addresses both the leadership and sustainability from the perspective of different generations in family SMEs. Because, sustainable leadership is seen as a key factor of the competitiveness in a family enterprise. Without effective and efficient human capital, the SMEs cannot gain the goals such as growth, internationalization and increasing performance. Generational differences in SMEs may improve the creativity and innovation, providing that the established appropriate management system and strategy. From this viewpoint, this chapter provides an overview of generations, leadership, sustainability and competitiveness about SMEs

Leadership and Sustainability

2021 ◽  
pp. 1160-1181
Author(s):  
Fatma Ince
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Generational Differences ◽  
Management System ◽  
Sustainable Leadership ◽  
Family Enterprise ◽  
Key Factor ◽  
Family Smes ◽  
Creativity And Innovation

This chapter on leadership and sustainability from the first to the second generations of SME Ownership addresses both the leadership and sustainability from the perspective of different generations in family SMEs. Because, sustainable leadership is seen as a key factor of the competitiveness in a family enterprise. Without effective and efficient human capital, the SMEs cannot gain the goals such as growth, internationalization and increasing performance. Generational differences in SMEs may improve the creativity and innovation, providing that the established appropriate management system and strategy. From this viewpoint, this chapter provides an overview of generations, leadership, sustainability and competitiveness about SMEs

Activist Human Capital: Skills Acquisition and the Development of Commitment to Social Movement Activism

2013 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 197-212 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nella Van Dyke ◽  
Marc Dixon
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Collective Identity ◽  
Social Ties ◽  
Skills Acquisition ◽  
Consciousness Raising ◽  
Number Of Factors ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Student Internship ◽  
Social Movement Activism

Social movement scholars have long recognized that participants in one campaign often develop a commitment to activism that inspires continued participation for years, even a lifetime. Scholars have identified a number of factors that inspire the development of commitment, including consciousness raising, empowerment, social ties and the development of a shared collective identity. In this article, we highlight another factor that the movement literature has thus far neglected: skills acquisition. Using data from interviews with participants in the AFL-CIO's Union Summer student internship program, we elaborate on the processes through which participation generates a feeling of empowerment, specifically showing that participants in an intensive movement campaign can learn concrete organizing skills which empower and inspire them to sustain their involvement in activism. In addition, we find that social ties are important not only because of the information and support they provide, but also because they transmit human capital. We demonstrate that those who come to an activist campaign with less experience, and those who participate in a better-organized campaign are more likely to gain activist human capital through their participation.

Leadership and Sustainability

2022 ◽  
pp. 639-660
Author(s):  
Fatma Ince
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Generational Differences ◽  
Management System ◽  
Sustainable Leadership ◽  
Family Enterprise ◽  
Key Factor ◽  
Family Smes ◽  
Creativity And Innovation

This chapter on leadership and sustainability from the first to the second generations of SME Ownership addresses both the leadership and sustainability from the perspective of different generations in family SMEs. Because, sustainable leadership is seen as a key factor of the competitiveness in a family enterprise. Without effective and efficient human capital, the SMEs cannot gain the goals such as growth, internationalization and increasing performance. Generational differences in SMEs may improve the creativity and innovation, providing that the established appropriate management system and strategy. From this viewpoint, this chapter provides an overview of generations, leadership, sustainability and competitiveness about SMEs

Beyond Networks: Transatlantic Immigration and Wealth in Late Colonial Mexico City

2015 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 317-348
Author(s):  
HILLEL EYAL
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Human Capital ◽  
Mexico City ◽  
Social Ties ◽  
Social Background ◽  
Atlantic History ◽  
Colonial Mexico ◽  
Wealth Accumulation ◽  
Colonial Society ◽  
The Social

AbstractThis article explores the relation between transatlantic immigration and wealth accumulation in late colonial Mexico City, the chief destination for transatlantic emigrants from Spain. In contrast to the prevalent focus in the literature on networks and transatlantic ties, I argue that economic mobility and thus entry into the upper classes of colonial society depended on the social background of immigrants in their home regions in the peninsula. Human capital rather than social capital was the key determinant explaining why certain regional groups, notably the Basques, succeeded economically as merchants and miners, challenging traditional notions of networks and interconnectedness in Atlantic history and beyond. The findings are grounded in quantitative datasets of Spanish immigrants, overcoming both the biases of anecdotal sources and the methodological intricacy of disentangling the causal relationship between wealth accumulation and social ties.

scholarly journals Getting a Job in Flushing: A Qualitative Study on Chinese Immigrants’ Job-Finding and Job Transitions in an Ethnic Enclave

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 122-145
Author(s):  
Bolei Liu
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Job Search ◽  
Social Ties ◽  
Chinese Immigrants ◽  
The United States ◽  
Positive Influence ◽  
Job Transitions ◽  
Job Opportunities ◽  
Job Finding ◽  
The U.S

In this study, I investigated how different forms of human capital and social capital of new Chinese immigrants affect their job-search and job transitions in the Flushing area. I conducted sixteen indepth interviews with new Chinese immigrants who were seeking job opportunities within Flushing, documenting not only their personal background but also their immigration and working experiences in both China and the United States. Results indicate that the aggregation of certain human capital has positive influence on immigrants’ income, rather on immigrants’ job-findings and job transitions. The efficiency of social ties, instead of strength of social ties, is a more significant unit of analysis in the co-ethnic labor market. Though immigrants’ efficient social ties may be helpful for finding their first jobs in the U.S., the efficiency of social ties with regards to job-searching may dramatically decrease as immigrants stay longer in the U.S. As a result, social ties may not have a salient influence on immigrants’ job transitions.

THE ROLE OF LEADERSHIP AND SOCIAL TIES IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF HUMAN CAPITAL

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 139-147
Author(s):  
M.N. Makarova ◽  
A.K. Lebedeva
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
Social Ties ◽  
Weak Ties ◽  
Peer Leadership ◽  
Strength Of Weak Ties ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Transformation Leadership

The sociological aspects of studying human capital, leadership and social ties, are considered in this article. Sociological theories of human capital consider it in its connection with social capital that can be defined as an engagement in social relations, units and networks giving one some benefits. Social ties are the resource of development of human capital. The article shows that human capital can be evaluated from sociological perspective through the role of a creative class and new forms of ties that constitute integration on the intergroup level (weak ties). Such forms of communication significantly expand the sphere of opportunities for human development. The leadership acquires new functions of building nodes of networks that establish and develop social ties on different levels, and contribute to social transformation. Leadership networks demonstrate strength of weak ties that allows leaders to reach their goals through collaboration and sharing information with their own kind and to broad the scope of their activity. There are four types of leadership networks: peer leadership networks, organizational leadership networks, field-policy leadership networks, and collective leadership networks. Study of the leadership networks helps to research forms of communications, factors influencing their intensity, trust among the network’s actors etc. Analysis of the leadership networks includes such objectives as definition of network structure; their dynamics; evaluating ways of communications, and impacts of changes that occur as the result of their activity. Network analysis allows finding out the core and peripheral agents of network, and strong and weak ties between them.

Human Capital

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Rajaram
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital
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