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Utilizing Social Networks in Social Entrepreneurship

2019
This chapter focuses on the linkage between social networks and social entrepreneurship and argues that social networks are crucial in social entrepreneurship and social entrepreneurs rely on different compositions of social networks in different stages of the entrepreneurial process.
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Research utilization in the social-political arena

Applied Nursing Research, 1990
Many of the health problems of populations at greater risk for ill health require action at the social-political level for intervention. The experience of working with local community leaders and concerned providers to improve the resources available to meet the needs of the homeless is used to illustrate the value and problems of combining the roles ...
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Utilization of mammography. Social and behavioral trends

Cancer, 1993
Key policy developments in the utilization of mammographic screening for the early detection of breast cancer in the U.S. since 1973 are reviewed. Recent data from the 1990 and 1992 Mammography Attitudes and Usage Studies on attitudes toward mammography and screening behaviors among U.S. women aged 40 and older are summarized.
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Social utility and fashion behavior

Marketing Letters, 1992
This article reports the exploratory results of a computer-based behavioral simulation that examines the role of social utility in fashion behavior. Social utility is defined as those benefits of a product or service that satisfy interpersonal needs (e.g., conformity, individuality relative to others).
Shelby H. McIntyre, Christopher M. Miller   +1 more
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Social networks and health service utilization

Journal of Health Economics, 2005
While social networks have been examined in the context of many economic choices and outcomes, this study is the first to investigate the effects of social networks on health service utilization decisions. Networks can affect utilization decisions in many ways.
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The social utility of disability and rehabilitation

The Personnel and Guidance Journal, 1970
This article suggests that a disabled class is useful to society in maintaining certain social arrangements. Consequently, the rehabilitation counselor may unwittingly play unexpected roles that facilitate the social utility of the disabled. As totem, he wards off the evil associated with disability; as scapegoat, he assumes society's guilt ...
DAVID B. HERSHENSON, HERMAN MUROV
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The measurement of individual utility and social welfare

Journal of Health Economics, 1998
It has been suggested by a number of economists that decisions about how to allocate scarce health care resources should be informed by the cost per quality-adjusted life-years (QALYs) of the different alternatives. One of the criticisms of the QALY approach is that it is based on the measurement of individual utility; yet the values elicited are used ...
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Caregivers’ Utilization of Social Networks and Social Media

2014
A common finding is that an individual’s involvement with family and friends declines after they become a primary caregiver, especially a caregiver to a person with dementia. The demands of dementia caregiving are generally higher than those of nondementia caregiving, and the duration is longer.
John G. Bruhn, Howard M. Rebach
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The utility of bonding social capital

Journal of Civil Society, 2005
In most studies of social capital, bridging social capital is emphasized as ‘good’ for democracy and economic performance.
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Trust and corporate social responsibility: From expected utility and social normative perspective

Journal of Business Research, 2021
Shihua Chen, Khalil Jebran
exaly