Does Social Capital Improve Labour Productivity in Small and Medium Enterprises? [PDF]
This paper carries out an empirical assessment of the relationship between social capital and labour productivity in small and medium enterprises in Italy. By means of structural equations models, the analysis investigates the effect of different aspects
Fabio Sabatini
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The Future of Research in Cognitive Robotics: Foundation Models or Developmental Cognitive Models?
Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.Research in cognitive robotics founded on principles of developmental psychology and enactive cognitive science would yield what we seek in autonomous robots: the ability to perceive its environment, learn from experience, anticipate the outcome of events, act to pursue goals, and adapt to changing circumstances without resorting to training with ...
David Vernon
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ActivitésThis article investigates socio-professional support practices in a social enterprise. Within such a “hybrid” system, the productive dimension of work is the means used to help adults with mental health problems to (re)develop social and professional ...
Ayla Bimonte
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Seeing social enterprise through the theoretical conceptualisation of ethical capital [PDF]
, 2008 Objectives: Current conceptualisations of social enterprise fail to fully satisfy an understanding of the movement. A focus on the economic implies a business model where deep tensions lie. A focus on social capital offers a different frame of reference,
Bull, M. +3 more
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Strong‐Magnetic Flexible Composites for Magnetically Responsive Soft Robots
Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.This perspective provides an overview of the performance mechanisms, preparation methods, and applications of strong magnetic flexible composite materials in soft actuators (such as gripping, movement, and sensing), and further explores current opportunities and challenges.
Wenwen Li +4 more
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Slowed Down Economisation: The Persistence of Alternative Trade Organisations
Swiss Journal of Sociology, 2018 Have Swiss Alternative Trade Organizations (ATOs) valorized economic aspects at the expense of their social mission for the longer term? From a historical perspective (1974–2013), this article shows how these social enterprises have maintained their ...
Arnold Nadine, Hammer Isabel
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Community-Based Interactive Training Project for Migrant Women Workers in the Pearl River Delta [PDF]
, 2003 Outlines the phases of a project that was designed to explore effective social aid and services to migrant women workers, as well as to mobilize resources from the government, enterprises, local community, and other aspects of ...
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Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.Amphiphilic chloroazobenzenes, bearing different amino acids as end groups alanine, phenylalanine, and valine, exhibit excellent photoisomerizations. Varying structures of three amino acid groups participate in supramolecular formations and therefore photoinduced morphological transformations via adjusting intermolecular interactions. These interaction
Shuangshuang Meng +3 more
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Policies and Instruments for Social Development
Journal of Innovations and Sustainability, 2018 Current paper presents a book review made by Prof. Dr. Margarita Bogdanova on the monograph “Policies and instruments for social development” – an edition of Innovations and Sustainability Academy – Bulgaria authored by Corresponding Member of the ...
Margarita Bogdanova
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COVID-19 and the role of Voluntary, Community, and Social Enterprises in northern England in responding to the needs of marginalised communities: a qualitative focus group study. [PDF]
Lancet, 2022 Scott S +9 more
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