Democratizing Capital: Building Union Coop Partnerships Through Economically Targeted Investing and Crowdfunding Innovations

2020 ◽  
pp. 249-269
Author(s):  
Minsun Ji ◽  
Tony Robinson
Keyword(s):  
Capital Building

Limits to Dominance?

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Communication Skills ◽  
Electoral System ◽  
Tony Blair ◽  
Prime Ministers ◽  
Margaret Thatcher ◽  
Capital Building ◽  
Low Levels ◽  
Very High ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Policy Vision

This chapter compares the leadership capital of two long-serving UK prime ministers: Tony Blair and Margaret Thatcher, treble election winners who held office for a decade. Mapping their capital over time reveals two very different patterns. Thatcher began with low levels of capital, building to a mid-term high and final fragile dominance, though her capital fell between elections. Blair possessed very high levels from the outset that gradually declined in a more conventional pattern. Both benefited from electoral dominance and a divided opposition, Thatcher’s strength lay in her policy vision while Blair’s stemmed from his popularity and communication skills. The LCI reveals that both prime ministers were successful without being popular, sustained in office by the electoral system. Towards the end of their tenures, both leaders’ continued dominance masked fragility, ousted when unrest in their parties and policy unpopularity eroded their capital.

BUILDING COMMITMENT OF THE BENEFICIARIES OF THE PROJECT „POTENTIALS – NEW FORMS OF SOCIAL CAPITAL BUILDING IN THE MUNICIPALITY OF PRZASNYSZ”. PERSPECTIVES AND LIMITATIONS

2021 ◽  
Vol 22T (1 (tematyczny)) ◽  
pp. 7-16
Author(s):  
Kinga Pawłowska
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Project Implementation ◽  
Community Project ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Future ◽  
Capital Building ◽  
Social Project ◽  
Building Methods

This paper explores the issue of building beneficiaries’ commitment to the social project. Building beneficiaries’ commitment is difficult and complicated, but necessary to achieve the project’s goals. The paper presents experiences of individuals who organise activities in the Potentials… project, namely activities of those who have been responsible for building involvement of the projects’ benfciaries. The author presents conclusions of her qualitative research into the local community/project concerning commitment building methods, the difficulties connected with it and some suggestions concerning the project implementation in the future.

scholarly journals A dynamic analysis of social capital-building of international and UK students

2014 ◽  
Vol 36 (8) ◽  
pp. 1212-1235 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bart Rienties ◽  
Novie Johan ◽  
Divya Jindal-Snape
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Dynamic Analysis ◽  
Capital Building

scholarly journals Sport, Social Class, and Cultural Capital: Building on Bourdieu and His Critics

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carl Stempel
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Cultural Capital ◽  
Sport Participation ◽  
Symbolic Boundaries ◽  
Comparative Analyses ◽  
Cultural Power ◽  
Capital Building ◽  
Key Aspects

This study sketches some key aspects of Bourdieu’s theory of cultural power and links these to the analysis of adult sport participation. It then summarizes Bourdieu’s central findings on sport and social class, using this to highlight aspects of his theory neglected by sport analysts and to focus on research that addresses these gaps. I then compare research on U.S. patterns of sport participation between 1965 and 1975 highlighting how these differ from Bourdieu’s (1984) 1967-1975 analysis of France. Building on this comparison, amendments to Bourdieu’s theory are explored, particularly focusing on omnivore theory and Lamont’s (1992, 2000) comparative analyses of aesthetic and moral symbolic boundaries.

Managing change: diversification and transformation, 1993–2003

2018 ◽  
pp. 211-268
Author(s):  
Grietjie Verhoef
Keyword(s):  
New South ◽  
Market Competition ◽  
Distribution Channels ◽  
Traditional Markets ◽  
Managing Change ◽  
Business Units ◽  
Business Operations ◽  
Internationalization Strategies ◽  
Capital Building ◽  
New Distribution

As global insurance markets experienced a shift out of life assurance into new wealth products, Sanlam faced the same trend. Demutualization required more free capital than commanded by Sanlam, leading to an extended capital building programme, which ultimately fed into demutualization. Sanlam focused business operations on restructured business units, new distribution channels, and non-traditional markets. Serious attempts at bancassurance absorbed attention under severe market competition. Internationalization strategies failed to deliver to expectations. After listing in 1998, operational, management, and functional transformation occurred in a new South Africa. Statutory sanctioned empowerment policies chartered future company strategies. Implementation was delayed by the death of the CEO and an inexperienced successor. The company remained hamstrung by too-large exposures to a handful of big investments.

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