Trust and Other Historical Proxies of Social Capital: Do They Matter in Promoting Social Entrepreneurship in Greek Rural Areas?

Τρίγκας, Μάριος; Partalidou, Maria; Lazaridou, Dimitra

doi:10.1080/19420676.2020.1718741

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“…These factors have been shown to be critical in explaining the creation of cooperatives and the size and dynamism of the cooperative sector in different regions. For example, Trigkas et al [88] largely explain the shortage of cooperatives in certain rural regions of Greece by reduced levels of trust and social interactions, participation in the local community, and voluntarism.…”

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Cooperatives and Social Capital: A Narrative Literature Review and Directions for Future Research

2021

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How cooperatives generate and absorb social capital has attracted a great deal of attention due to the fact that they are collective organizations owned and democratically managed by their members, and, accordingly, are argued to be closely linked to the nature and dynamics of social capital. However, the extant literature and knowledge on the relationship between cooperatives and social capital remain unstructured and fragmented. This paper aims to provide a narrative literature review that integrates both sides of the relationship between cooperatives and social capital. On the one hand, one side involves how cooperatives create internal social capital and spread it in their immediate environment, and, on the other hand, it involves how the presence of social capital promotes the creation and development of cooperatives. In addition, our theoretical framework integrates the dark side of social capital, that is, how the lack of trust, reciprocal relationships, transparency, and other social capital components can lead to failure of the cooperative. On the basis of this review, we define a research agenda that synthesizes key trends and promising research avenues for further advancement of theoretical and empirical insights about the relationship between cooperatives and social capital, placing particular emphasis on rural and agricultural cooperatives.

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Cooperatives and Social Capital: A Narrative Literature Review and Directions for Future Research

2021

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“…Studies have shown a positive link between social capital and entrepreneurship, with social capital helping in developing entrepreneurial motivation, identifying business opportunities, and accessing entrepreneurial resources (Fuentes-Fuentes et al, 2015;Liu et al, 2019;Trigkas et al, 2020). Social capital is considered to be a resource embedded in social relationships (Lin, 2002).…”

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“…Social capital is an important resource for rural households, and how rural households use social capital to start their own businesses has been a hot topic in current research (Evansluong and Ramírez-Pasillas, 2019;Liu et al, 2019;Trigkas et al, 2020). Different from them, we focus on the impact of social capital on rural entrepreneurship and introduce financial literacy into the mechanism study.…”

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Social Capital, Financial Literacy, and Rural Household Entrepreneurship: A Mediating Effect Analysis

Zhao

Tian-cheng

2021

Front. Psychol.

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In rural areas, entrepreneurship helps lift households out of poverty by alleviating unemployment and increasing income, and financial literacy plays an important role in promoting entrepreneurship. Social capital is a resource embedded in social relationships, the boundaries of which have been expanded by the development of information communications technologies (ICTs). This article aims to link social capital, financial literacy, and rural entrepreneurship through a partial mediating effect analysis. Using data from the 2015 China Household Finance Survey (CHFS), we analyze how social capital affects rural entrepreneurship and the role of local ICTs development in this effect while also accounting for reverse causality. We construct a social capital indicator, mainly referring to bridging social capital, and two financial literacy indicators to make the conclusions robust. The empirical results show that social capital promotes rural entrepreneurship by sharing financial literacy. Furthermore, the spread of ICTs enhances this mediating effect. Our study provides empirical evidence for encouraging entrepreneurship and promoting knowledge sharing and implies the importance of ICTs in promoting entrepreneurship in rural areas.

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“…Social capital significantly contributes to sustainable development and is indispensable for economic growth and human well-being. In the last years, the function and influence of social capital have been analyzed from many different aspects by researchers, and a wealth of findings have been obtained, such as the impact of social capital on economic performance [7], household external financing [8], innovation [9], entrepreneurship [10,11], health [12], and happiness [13]. ere are relatively few studies on the relationship between social capital and insurance purchases, and no consistent conclusions have been reached.…”

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An Empirical Analysis of Social Capital and Household Insurance Purchases in the Context of the Internet of Things: Evidence from China

Wang

2022

Mobile Information Systems

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The Internet of Things has entered customers’ everyday lives around the globe and transformed business models across industries. This environment brings opportunities for insurers: to develop new products, open new distribution channels, and extend their role to include prediction, prevention, and assistance. Although the Chinese insurance business ranks second in the world, the participation rate of residents in the insurance market still lags far behind that of other countries. In Chinese society, where “guanxi” is omnipresent, social capital has a profound influence on household activities. However, there is a lack of research linking social capital and household insurance purchases. Based on a dataset from the 2017 China Household Finance Survey (CHFS), this article examines the impact of social capital on household insurance purchases in China. A new social capital indicator is constructed by incorporating online interaction into the measurement of household social capital. The results of the Probit and Tobit model analysis indicate that social capital has a significant positive impact on both the probability and the proportion of household insurance purchases. The results remain robust after changing the model, measurement, and sample of the study, and using instrumental variables. This article provides new evidence for the relationship between social capital and household insurance purchases, and enriches the research perspective on insurance purchasing decisions.

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Trust and Other Historical Proxies of Social Capital: Do They Matter in Promoting Social Entrepreneurship in Greek Rural Areas?

Cited by 21 publications

References 54 publications

Cooperatives and Social Capital: A Narrative Literature Review and Directions for Future Research

Cooperatives and Social Capital: A Narrative Literature Review and Directions for Future Research

Social Capital, Financial Literacy, and Rural Household Entrepreneurship: A Mediating Effect Analysis

An Empirical Analysis of Social Capital and Household Insurance Purchases in the Context of the Internet of Things: Evidence from China

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