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From:Media International Australia incorporating Culture and Policy (Issue 151) Peer-ReviewedAustralian municipal governments have lagged behind many of their international counterparts in local public broadband provision. However, by 2014 there are signs that the gap is closing, with significant new investment...
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From:Advances in Environmental BiologyPeer-ReviewedCollaboration works as a balancing tool which has the government on one side and public on the other side, and this balance axis is the idea of collaboration which is the defining element in public and government...
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From:Nomadic Peoples (Vol. 19, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedAbstract The past two decades have seen massive investments in infrastructure development in China's western regions. Formerly hard to access, the remote grasslands of the Amdo region in Sichuan Province are today...
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From:Journal of Supply Chain Management (Vol. 47, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis article examines the relevance of several prominent theoretical perspectives in strategic management for supply chain management. The resource-based view of the firm, transaction cost economics, organization...
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From:Pakistan Journal of Life and Social Sciences (Vol. 9, Issue 2)Byline: Nasir Nadeem, Khalid Mushtaq and Mohammad Ishaq Javed Abstract In agricultural based countries, public investment on rural infrastructure not only increases agricultural productivity but also reduces...
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From:European Social PolicyPeer-ReviewedRegional Policy Commissioner Danuta Hubner and the Irish Minister for European Affairs, Dick Roche, signed, on 14 December in Brussels, two operational programmes which will be co-funded by the European Structural Fund...
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From:Social Policy Journal of New ZealandPeer-ReviewedSOCIAL CAPITAL IN ACTION edited by David Robinson Institute of Policy Studies, Victoria University of Wellington INTRODUCTION The Institute of Policy Studies (IPS) of Victoria University of Wellington has...
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From:Annual Review of Sociology (Vol. 24, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis paper reviews the origins and definitions of social capital in the writings of Bourdieu, Loury, and Coleman, among other authors. It distinguishes four sources of social capital and examines their dynamics....
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From:The Journal of Interdisciplinary History (Vol. 29, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThe development of democracy as well as the nature of social relations and political culture in Asia can be reasonably explained in terms of civility, social capital and civil society. While Asian countries such as...
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From:International Journal of Sports Marketing & Sponsorship (Vol. 1, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedHosting FIFA's World Cup is seen by many as the world's biggest sporting prize. Competition to secure the tournament is intense, with competing nations faced with the challenge of presenting a convincing case to the...
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From:Quality (Vol. 55, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedWASHINGTON--The National Association of Manufacturers is joining other businesses, labor organizations and elected officials across the United States to tell policymakers and citizens to promote the need for more...
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From:Neurology India (Vol. 66, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedByline: Dheeraj. Khurana, Jeyaraj. Pandian, P. Sylaja, Subhash. Kaul, M. Padma Srivastava, Suruchi. Thakur, Deepti. Arora, Tijy. Thankachan, Aneesh. Singhal Stroke is the second-most common cause of death in the...
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From:Tech & Learning (Vol. 33, Issue 4)The challenges facing CIOs, IT directors, and others responsible for planning and maintaining district infrastructure continue to grow under pressure from a variety of factors. These include lower computer-to-student...
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From:Economic Inquiry (Vol. 56, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIn this article, we analyze the role of infrastructure coordination in facilitating partial tax harmonization within a coalition of asymmetric jurisdictions. Two main results are obtained. First, productivity...
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From:Administrative Science Quarterly (Vol. 42, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedI present argument and evidence for a structural ecology of social capital that describes how the value of social capital to an individual is contingent on the number of people doing the same work. The information and...
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From:National Institute Economic Review (Issue 233) Peer-ReviewedThis article reflects upon a comparative analysis of the 28 'City Deals' agreed between UK government, Scottish government and city-regional groupings in England and Scotland since 2011. The City Deals have sought to...
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From:The Energy Journal (Vol. 37, Issue S3) Peer-ReviewedWe present an analysis of the optimal development of natural gas infrastructure in Europe based on the scenario studies of Holz and von Hirschhausen (2013). We use a stochastic mixed integer quadratic model to analyze...
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From:The Public Manager (Vol. 38, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedIn his inaugural speech on December 11, 2007, Kentucky's 61st governor, Steven L. Beshear, challenged all Kentuckians to "choose the path of progress. This path will involve new thinking and new ideas. It will require...
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From:American Scientist (Vol. 107, Issue 5)In Mexico City, where water surplus and scarcity have shaped life for centuries, an emblematic new park highlights how projects that integrate water management within public spaces could support a more sustainable...
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From:International Advances in Economic Research (Vol. 9, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedAbstract This paper analyzes sports managers' earnings and blends traditional aspects of management derived from human capital theory with new aspects derived from social capital theory. It captures the integrative...