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"Armed conflict within a state weakens its social fabric and divides the population by undermining interpersonal and communal group trust, destroying the norms and values that underlie cooperation and collective action for the common good, and potentially...

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This book carefully develops the perspective of nonprofit organizations as social capital assets and agents of public policy within a principal-agent framework. It shows the practical as well as managerial and marketing advantages of such an approach, one...

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The outsourcing of IT services over the past decade has triggered a need to reassess how IT governance and sourcing should be conducted. IT Governance in a Networked World: Multi-Sourcing Strategies and Social Capital for Corporate Computing provides the...

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Societies work best where citizens trust their fellow citizens, work cooperatively for common goals, and thus share a civic culture. The accumulation of reciprocal trust, as demonstrated by voluntary efforts to create common goods, builds social capital a...

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Measuring Social Capital: An Integrated Questionnaire (World Bank Working Papers) download pdf by Deepa Narayan, Veronica Nyhan Jones, Michael Woolcock, Christiaan Grootaert

The idea of social capital has enjoyed a remarkable rise to prominence in both the theoretical and applied social science literature over the last decade. While lively debate has accompanied that journey, thereby helping to advance our thinking and clari...

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This volume argues that using social capital to eradicate poverty is unlikely to succeed because its mainstream approach mistakenly assumes that social capital necessarily benefits poor people. The inadequacy of that assumption, Sam Wong argues, calls for...

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