Browsing by Subject "social capital"
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(2023-05-01)Every flood event reveals hidden disparities within cities in capacities to anticipate and recover from disasters. Studies have found that high socially vulnerable neighborhoods sustain more damage, have access to fewer ...
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(2016-06-24)This study examines the influence of executives’ prior employment ties on unrelated acquisitions. I do this by considering the relational ties created by both the oft-studied board interlock as well as the hitherto ...
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(2022-04-19)The purpose of this dissertation was to examine how Black women university-level faculty develop and use informal digital social networks to facilitate social capital. Black cyberfeminism and social capital theory were two ...
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Governments that suffer low levels of citizen trust generally have worse policy outcomes and less citizen compliance, making it difficult to pursue other policy goals. However, scholarship on government trust in low trust ...
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(2014-04-30)The purpose of this study was to provide an understanding of the process Latino parents utilize to gain access to postsecondary education information during their children’s elementary schooling. Significantly, the support ...
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(2009-05-15)This dissertation addresses generalized trust in Post-Communist Europe. I examine trust stressing two sets of factors: the impact of attitudes associated with cleavages coming out of transition to democracy, and the ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2006-10-30)Since Texas contains less than 5% public land, private landowners are critical to the success of environmental management initiatives in the state. This has implications for resources that traverse property boundaries, ...
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(2012-10-19)Immigration is a topic that has experienced an evolution of social importance across centuries. While the United States has welcomed individuals seeking lives of promise and opportunity, its neighboring border with Mexico ...
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Remixing Resilience: A Case Study of Academically Successful Black Males in an Urban Midwestern City (2017-12-05)One of the most dynamically discussed topics in urban education today is the academic performance and success of African American males. While the accessibility to a high-quality education impacts a sizeable portion of ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2004-09-30)Using human capital theory and social capital theory, I develop a model to explain the circumstances surrounding outside director appointments, patterns of outside board affiliations and outside director exits. I investigate ...
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(2012-02-14)In spite of increasing interests in the relationship between neighborhood environments and children's walking-to-school behaviors, few studies have examined the dynamic nature of school-community relationships from physical ...
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(2009-05-15)Social capital resources for the firm can be conceptualized as those executive-to-executive connections held by a firm’s top management team, as well as firm-to-firm relationships that exist fairly independently of particular ...
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Wildlife and water: collective action and social capital of selected landowner associations in Texas (Texas A&M University, 2007-04-25)In Texas, landowner associations for the management of common-pool resources such as wildlife and groundwater have become increasingly popular. Successful management of white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) depends ...