Getting support in polarized societies: Income, social networks, and socioeconomic context

Letki, Natalia; Mieriņa, Inta

doi:10.1016/j.ssresearch.2014.08.002

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“…The European Commission [73] has suggested that efficiency might be complemented or replaced by the notion of sufficiency. Deciding upon the size and character of social and environmental thresholds and determining sufficiency criteria are understood to require inputs from actors outside of firms as units of production [65,74].…”

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Understanding Innovation for Sustainable Business Management Capabilities and Competencies under Uncertainty

Liao

Tseng

et al. 2015

Sustainability

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Abstract:In recent years, many firms have come to understand that innovation is an important issue in sustainable business management, as it helps improve firm capabilities and competencies. Because of the fiercely competitive environment in the hotel industry, innovation has become a critical factor in the process of hotel differentiation, leading to sustainable business success. However, the literature has not thoroughly examined the role of innovation or the hierarchical structure of the capabilities and competencies in sustainable business management. This study adopts interval-valued triangular fuzzy numbers and grey relational analysis to provide a competitive priority ranking for the aspects and criteria that assist firms in decision-making. The study results indicate that innovation in technology capabilities and networking and social capabilities-in addition to competencies in systemic thinking-are the most important aspects of sustainable business management. In particular, this study indicates that to succeed in building a sustainable business in the hotel industry, firms should upgrade and integrate their business technologies, collaborate with actors inside and outside the firm, build trust as well as a shared vision that includes common agreement, and develop competencies in inventive thinking to support innovation and foster changes in strategy, structure, administrative procedures, and systems when necessary. OPEN ACCESSSustainability 2015, 7 13727

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Section: Proposed Sbmcc Measuresmentioning

confidence: 99%

Understanding Innovation for Sustainable Business Management Capabilities and Competencies under Uncertainty

Liao

Tseng

et al. 2015

Sustainability

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“…Having a more extensive support network in adolescence implies having a resource that protects various aspects of health [ 60 ]. Difficulties in forming ties can be compounded by SES: individuals with few resources in the social structure are disadvantaged by their dependence on larger networks to access social resources [ 61 ], and in turn, the configuration of social networks is conditioned by socioeconomic status. Although networks vary over the course of life according to SES [ 62 ], the presence of these deficits at an early age restricts subsequent possibilities for improvement, thus contributing to greater inequality.…”

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Socioeconomic Status in Adolescents: A Study of Its Relationship with Overweight and Obesity and Influence on Social Network Configuration

Ramos

Calvo

Benítez-Andrades

et al. 2018

IJERPH

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Socioeconomic status (SES) influences all the determinants of health, conditioning health throughout life. The aim of the present study was to explore the relationship between socioeconomic status and obesity in adolescence through an analysis of the patterns of contact between peers as a function of this parameter. A cross-sectional study was performed, analyzing a sample of 235 students aged 14 to 18 and 11 class networks. Social network analysis was used to analyze structural variables of centrality from a sociocentric perspective. We found that adolescents with a medium-low SES presented a two-fold higher probability of being overweight, but we did not detect any differences in the configuration of their social networks when compared with those of normal-weight adolescents. However, we did find significant differences in the formation of networks according to SES in the overall sample and disaggregated by gender, whereby adolescents with a high SES in general presented a higher capacity to form wider social networks. Elucidating the relationship between SES and overweight and its influence on social network formation can contribute to the design of preventative strategies against overweight and obesity in adolescents, since their social environment can provide them with several resources to combat excess weight.

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“…These two measures can sometimes give contradictory results, for example, it has been shown that occupational groups like managers are members of a larger number of organisations, but spend less time participating (Fisher et al 2004). Membership is also not necessarily related to larger networks (Letki and Mierina 2014). One should be careful thus when presenting the results based on membership information.…”

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Economic crisis and social capital in European societies: the role of politics in understanding short-term changes in social capital

2020

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How did the economic crisis impact social capital in European societies? The empirical studies conducted so far provide contradictory conclusions about the strength and direction of its influence. We argue that to better understand the effects of the economic crisis on social capital (social trust, formal and informal networks) it is crucial to examine both its impact on people's economic situation and the way it reshaped the relationship between individuals and political institutions and altered key political factors (political trust, the welfare state, political activism). Our analysis of European Social Survey data between 2006 and 2012 shows that changes in social trust were smaller than in formal and informal social networks. It also confirms that political factors played an important mediating role in producing these changes: changes in social trust and formal networks can especially be explained by the impact of the political factors, while variations in informal networks are mainly due to the changing economy. Moreover, the analyses show that while the economic crisis generally lowered social capital, some mechanisms such as a sense of togetherness and left-wing political activism, enhanced social capital.

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Getting support in polarized societies: Income, social networks, and socioeconomic context

Cited by 76 publications

References 61 publications

Understanding Innovation for Sustainable Business Management Capabilities and Competencies under Uncertainty

Understanding Innovation for Sustainable Business Management Capabilities and Competencies under Uncertainty

Socioeconomic Status in Adolescents: A Study of Its Relationship with Overweight and Obesity and Influence on Social Network Configuration

Economic crisis and social capital in European societies: the role of politics in understanding short-term changes in social capital

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