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The value of intellectual capital in improving MSMEs’ competitiveness, financial performance, and business sustainability

Cogent Economics & Finance
Intellectual capital is now recognized as a factor influencing organizational progress. However, many Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME’s) in Indonesia still need to understand the importance of intellectual capital to support their ...
Anwar Hariyono, I. Made Narsa
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Spatial and Sectoral Characteristics of Relational Capital in Innovation Activity [PDF]

The paper presents prima facie evidence of the role of relational capital in innovation activities, and underlines the spatial and sectoral difference of the effects of relational capital on innovation processes.
Roberta Capello
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Sect and House in Syria: History, Architecture, and Bayt Amongst the Druze in Jaramana [PDF]

, 2014
This paper explores the connections between the architecture and materiality of houses and the social idiom of bayt (house, family). The ethnographic exploration is located in the Druze village of Jaramana, on the outskirts of the Syrian capital Damascus.
A. Maria A. Kastrinou, Abu Chakra E., Alamuddin N. S., Bahloul J, Batatu H, Betts B. R., Bourdieu P., Chatty D, Delaney C, Eickelman D., Engels F., Fahmi F.,, Firro K. M., Geertz C., González-Ruibal A., Haddad B, Hazran Y., Herzfeld M, Hinnebusch R. A., Hinnebusch R. A., Hinnebusch R. A., Kapytoff I, Kastrinou Theodoropoulou A. M, Khalaf S. N., Khuri F. I., Layish A., Lévi-Strauss C., Lévi-Strauss C., Makarem S. N., Makdisi U., Mitchell T., Rabo A., Rugh A. B., Salamandra C. A, Seale P., Shaaban B., Shannon J. H., Strathern M., Van Dam N., Watenpaugh K. D, Waterson R., Yeoh S. G.   +41 more
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Bridging home, school and community to address educational inequality: Supporting educational trajectories through community bridge work

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper explores the role of community stakeholders in supporting the educational trajectories of students experiencing socio‐economic disadvantage in the Irish context. Building on international and national policy debates, the study examines how community‐based organisations, statutory services and outreach initiatives work alongside ...
Aoife Joy Keogh, Deirdre McGillicuddy
wiley   +1 more source

A Primer on Intellectual Capital [PDF]

, 2011
{Excerpt} Born of the information revolution, knowledge management has arisen in response to the belated understanding that intellectual capital is a core asset of organizations and that it should be circumscribed better. From this perspective, it is the
Serrat, Olivier
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Hong Kong's non‐local undergraduate recruitment: Policies, institutional practices and student perspectives

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Beneath the Hong Kong government's enthusiasm for recruiting non‐local undergraduates—including students from the Chinese Mainland and other international regions—lies a longstanding gap in understanding the core meanings and drivers shaping the territory's expanding focus on inward international student mobility (ISM).
Fang Gao, Wei Yan Xiong, Hei‐hang Hayes Tang, Xiao Han   +3 more
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The Social Capital of Venture Capitalists and Its Impact on the Funding of Start-Up Firms [PDF]

How does the social capital of venture capitalists (VCs) affect the funding of start-ups? Extant entrepreneurship literature conceptualizes a substitute effect between the social and financial capital that new firms attain from their investors.
Alexy, O., Block, J.H., Sandner, P.G., Wal, A.L.J. Ter   +3 more
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Beyond standardisation, subjects and syllabi: How primary schools organise for arts richness in an era of curriculum reform

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract As England embarks on its first comprehensive curriculum review in fifteen years, this paper offers critical insights from schools that sustained arts‐rich provision despite a policy landscape hostile to creative subjects. Drawing on data from the Researching Arts‐rich Primary Schools (RAPS) project—a mixed‐methods study of 76 arts‐rich ...
Pat Thomson, Christine Hall
wiley   +1 more source

Capital budgeting under relational contracting: optimal ranking and duration criteria for schemes of concession, project-financing and public-private partnership [PDF]

Project-financing and public-private partnership schemes are joint projects of investment that are generally submitted to investment valuation criteria based on compound discounting.
Yuri Biondi
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The influence of social capital on risk-taking propensity. A study on Chinese immigrant entrepreneurs [PDF]

, 2015
This paper studies the influence of social capital on immigrant entrepreneurs’ risk-taking propensity. The paper has a particular focus on Chinese immigrants and also explores the effects of the so-called “guanxi”, a ...
Rodríguez Gutiérrez, María José, Romero Luna, Isidoro   +1 more
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