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Economics of Social Relations
Starting from the idea that economic relations are all social relations, and every economic fact is first a social fact, this book explores one of the crucial problems within economic science: how to incorporate the social dimension into the study of economic reality from a critical perspective.
Economics of Social Relations
Starting from the idea that economic relations are social relations, and every economic fact is first a social fact, this book explores one of the crucial problems within economic science: how to embody the social dimension into the study of economic reality from a critical perspective. This book opens with an examination of the concept of social capital, incorporating all the approaches from the last 30 years of analysis. It reviews the two main orientations of existing research programmes in social capital: the macro or culturalist perspective and the micro or individual social capital. Furthermore, it proposes a reconstruction of the theory from a micro perspective. Finally, taking this a...
The Culture and Development Manifesto
With fascinating examples from around the world, this inspiring "manifesto" shows how to account for cultural diversity in reshaping economic and political development. Around the world, the realities of underdevelopment are harsh and galling, and current strategies are not working well enough or quickly enough. One reason, Robert Klitgaard argues in this pathbreaking book, is that the strategies don't take cultural diversity into account. Gently but firmly, he shows how and why anthropology and cultural studies have not been effectively applied. But it need not be so. The Culture and Development Manifesto shows how to mobilize knowledge from and for the disadvantaged, the indigenous, and the voiceless. Looking beyond interactions between cultural contexts and particular projects, Klitgaard seeks new ways to think about goals, new kinds of alternatives, new and perhaps hybrid ways to implement or resist, and, as a result, new kinds of politics. In short, this remarkable book fundamentally re-envisions what development policy can be.
Handbook of Research on Family Business
'This is a very business-like book in its approach. It has an impressive global reach in its authorship, focal areas and use of evidence; it hits all the major practical challenges of family firms in a spirit that is fresh and current; and it deals with the cutting-edge themes and issues that are uppermost in the minds of owners, executives, advisors and researchers in the field.' – Nigel Nicholson, London Business School, author, Managing the Human Animal, Family Wars and The 'I' of Leadership Acclaim for the first edition: 'The authors have taken a lot of pain in putting this handbook together. As the name indicates, this is an excellent handbook for researchers.' – Global Business Rev...
Corruption in Public Administration
Despite the growth in literature on political corruption, contributions from field research are still exiguous. This book provides a timely and much needed addition to current research, bridging the gap and providing an innovative approach to the study of corruption and integrity in public administration.
Las actitudes y los valores sociales en Galicia
Las actitudes y los valores sociales en Galicia es un trabajo basado en datos procedentes de dos encuestas llevadas a cabo en Galicia, con un intervalo de cinco años, utilizando el cuestionario de la Encuesta Mundial de valores. Los autores analizan e interpretan los resultados obtenidos en varios ámbitos de la realidad social, como son la moral, la familia, la política, la economía, la religión y la ecología. El objetivo del estudio es mostrar las tendencias de cambio en los valores sociales en Galicia. En cada capítulo los autores explican las tendencias sociales observadas a la luz de las hipótesis y perspectivas teóricas más conocidas en el campo de la sociología empírica de los valores. En este sentido, el trabajo aborda también cuestiones de índole teórica relacionada con los valores sociales.
El capital social como recurso de la empresa familiar
La sostenibilidad de la empresa familiar está ligada a la existencia de algún recurso diferencial susceptible de otorgarle una ventaja competitiva. La presente obra analiza el sistema que constituye una empresa familiar con el objeto de delimitar en dónde reside. Un recorrido por los potenciales recursos diferenciales converge en el carácter relacional o lo que se ha dado en denominar la familiness o familihabilidad. Este concepto alude a las ventajas que supone para la empresa la interacción mutua existente entre familia y empresa y sus derivaciones en términos de generación de conocimiento, reputación, toma de decisiones, orientación al largo plazo, etc. El concepto de capital social nos permitirá desgranar las dimensiones que subyacen a este recurso relacional y extraer algunas líneas básicas para una adecuada gestión del mismo.
