scholarly journals An institutional perspective on the social outcome of entrepreneurship: Commercial microfinance and inclusive markets

2016 ◽  
Vol 47 (8) ◽  
pp. 951-967 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua K Ault
2010 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 278-301 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edson Ronaldo Guarido Filho ◽  
Clóvis L. Machado-da-Silva

This article is based on the assumption that the construction of scientific knowledge is a social process characterized by the recursive dynamic between the social and intellectual dimensions. In light of this statement, we investigated how the construction of the institutional perspective is delineated in the context of organizational studies in Brazil from 1993 to 2007, considering transformations in its substantive content as well as the social organization of scientists. The study is based on documentary research of published articles in scientific journals and at academic events. We analyzed social networks of authorship in order to map the cooperation relationships between researchers, and we also used scientometric analysis, based on cited and co-cited authors, for mapping the intellectual framework throughout the period under study. The findings reveal that social ties among scientists in the field of institutional theory are representative of intellectual affinity, which means that there are social mechanisms working in the process of diffusion of ideas and formation of shared understandings, both aspects regarded to social embeddedness of researchers in the clusters in which they belong.


1959 ◽  
Vol 137 (4) ◽  
pp. 224-229 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Shepherd

2007 ◽  
Vol 52 (S15) ◽  
pp. 133-151 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisiunia A. Romanienko

Since the birth of Solidarity twenty-five years ago, scholars have examined this unique Polish apparatus of defiance from nearly every institutional perspective known to the social sciences. Yet very little attention has been paid to the role of the human agency that gave rise to this powerful force of national resistance. Even less attention has been devoted to the influence of emotion, and of laughter in particular, in mobilizing this unprecedented scale of subversive activities against the Soviet empire. By deploying discursive devices offered through avant-garde performance, Solidarity's regional art student faction known as the “Orange Alternative” helped to dismantle Soviet aggression by unifying Poles under the rubric of culturally specific nostalgic humour. Low state capacity, recognition claims for optimizing human potential, and other microdynamics of oppositional consciousness are some of the factors discussed which enabled humour to strengthen the movement and prevent exogenous special interests from altering its objectives.


2013 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 118-124 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer B. Wagner ◽  
Rhiannon J. Luyster ◽  
Jung Yeon Yim ◽  
Helen Tager-Flusberg ◽  
Charles A. Nelson

Faces convey important information about the social environment, and even very young infants are preferentially attentive to face-like over non-face stimuli. Eye-tracking studies have allowed researchers to examine which features of faces infants find most salient across development, and the present study examined scanning of familiar (i.e., mother) and unfamiliar (i.e., stranger) static faces at 6, 9, and 12 months of age. Infants showed a preference for scanning their mother’s face as compared to a stranger’s face, and displayed increased attention to the eye region as compared to the mouth region. Infants also showed patterns of decreased attention to eyes and increased attention to mouths between 6 and 12 months. Associations between visual attention at 6, 9, and 12 months and the Communication and Symbolic Behavior Scales DP (CSBS-DP) at 18 months were also examined, and a significant positive relation between attention to eyes at 6 months and the social subscale of the CSBS-DP at 18 months was found. This effect was driven by infants’ attention to their mother’s eyes. No relations between face scanning in 9- and 12-month-olds and social outcome at 18 months were found. The potential for using individual differences in early infant face processing to predict later social outcome is discussed.


2013 ◽  
Vol 52 (3) ◽  
pp. 450-470 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emma Tieffenbach

The unintendedness of the phenomenon that is to be explained is a constraint visible in the various applications and clarifications of invisible-hand explanations. The article casts doubt on such a requirement and proposes a revised account. To have a role in an invisible-hand process, it is argued, agents may very well act with a view to contributing to the occurrence of the social outcome that is to be explained, provided they see what they do as an aggregation of their individual actions rather than as something they jointly perform.


1990 ◽  
Vol 13 (7) ◽  
pp. 593-595 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alessandro Sartorio ◽  
F. Morabito ◽  
G. Peri ◽  
A. Conti ◽  
G. Faglia

2013 ◽  
Vol 46 (3) ◽  
pp. 218-231 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen L. Wright ◽  
Dorothy A. Wright ◽  
Michael A. Jenkins-Guarnieri

2010 ◽  
Vol 14 (spe) ◽  
pp. 149-172 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edson Ronaldo Guarido Filho ◽  
Clóvis L. Machado-da-Silva ◽  
Sandro Aparecido Gonçalves

This article is based on the assumption that the construction of scientific knowledge is a social process characterized by the recursive dynamic between the social and intellectual dimensions. In light of this statement, we investigated how the construction of the institutional perspective is delineated in the context of organizational studies in Brazil from 1993 to 2007. The study is based on documentary research of articles published in scientific journals and at academic events. For this purpose, we analyzed social networks and used bibliometric indicators in order to map the cooperation relationships between researchers and intellectual framework, based on the cited authors. The results show the influence of social relationships in the process of constructing scientific knowledge. The findings reveal that the expansion of the field is based on the growing elaboration of a social organization with close links to the activities of continuant and transient researchers. These circumstances denote the stratification both of production and the relationships between authors, since continuant and transient researchers are responsible for the intermediation of relations and the consolidation of production in the academic field that is being analyzed. The findings also reveal a secondary dynamic of the activities of researchers located on the margin of the network and the presence of Brazilian researchers among the most cited authors, an indication of a legitimized local intellectual base.


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