Social Capital and Local Socio-economic Development: The Case of Czech Peripheries

2013 ◽  
Vol 104 (5) ◽  
pp. 604-620 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Pileček ◽  
Pavel Chromý ◽  
Vít Jančák
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Socio Economic Development

scholarly journals TERRITORIAL PUBLIC SELF-GOVERNMENT: RESOURCE FOR DEVELOPMENT

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 441-447
Author(s):  
V.P. Kobyl’nikov
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Public Participation ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Coordination Structure ◽  
Vologda Region ◽  
Socio Economic Development ◽  
The Creation

The article is devoted to territorial public self-government as a mechanism of public participation in solving local issues and socio-economic development of municipalities. The study reveals a lack of relevant information on the number of organizations of territorial public self-government in the country. This does not allow to take into account their potential during planning the development of territories. The author analyzed the activities of organizations of territorial public self-government in the Vologda region, summarized the practice of initiative budgeting in Vologda and Cherepovets. The researcher attempted to explain the influence of organizations of territorial public self-government on socio-economic processes and the creation of social capital. In this connection, a list of indicators for assessing activities of organizations of territorial public self-government has been proposed. It is necessary to improve the efficiency of work with organizations of territorial public self-government in the region including through the creation of a coordination structure, resource centers and a pool of consultants. There is a need for further research on this topic.

scholarly journals Significance of Social Capital in Socio-economic Development of Bosnia and Herzegovina

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 169
Author(s):  
Zlatan Delic ◽  
Hariz Šaric ◽  
Nedim Osmanovic
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Bosnia And Herzegovina ◽  
Political Action ◽  
Top Management Teams ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Economic Policies ◽  
Socio Economic Development ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Key Dimensions

Social capital is used in interdisciplinary research as an analytical tool for explaining how culture, trust, and cooperation between people may be put into a function of general good, economic development and society in general. The objective of this paper consists of identification and analysis of status in the field of groups and networks, trust and solidarity, collective action and cooperation, information and communication, social cohesion and inclusion, and empowerment and political action, as key dimensions of social capital, and all in the context of overview of its significance in socio-economic development of Bosnia and Herzegovina. For the purpose of implementation of the named aim, a secondary and primary research has been conducted (by surveying 100 members of the top management teams in Bosnian and Herzegovinian SMEs). The research results show a relatively unsatisfactory status in the area of observed dimensions of social capital in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the decision makers and creators of socio-economic policies should put in a more significant effort in the area of development of social capital which has a significant potential in the context of incitement of socio-economic development.

An independent Ukraine: Sustainable or unsustainable development?

2008 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 93-103 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Gorobets
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Capital ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
Population Loss ◽  
Socio Economic Development ◽  
Moral Crisis ◽  
High Level ◽  
Capital Development

In this paper the current problems of socio-economic development, such as population loss, public health, and others, in independent Ukraine are presented and analyzed. Their main causes are identified as follows: extensive type of economic development, absence of the clear, sustainable goals and appropriate programs, high level of corruption, general socio-cultural (moral) crisis, passive civil position of society, lack of democracy, and inadequacy of institutions, for example, the higher education system. The contemporary problems of social capital development and inefficiency of science and higher education institutions in Ukraine are examined.

scholarly journals HUMAN RESOURCES COMPETITIVENESS OF UKRAINE: COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE SOCIO-ECONOMIC PREREQUISITES

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-22
Author(s):  
Olha Kirichenko
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Human Resources ◽  
Creative Thinking ◽  
Infrastructure Development ◽  
Social Infrastructure ◽  
Scientific Publications ◽  
Socio Economic Development ◽  
Ict Adoption

The paper is devoted to the analysis of the socio-economic preconditions of increasing the competitiveness of human resources of Ukraine in the international dimension taking into account the tendencies of globalization and digitalization in the world. In the process of viewing of the number of scientific publications, which are devoted to the problems of human resources competitiveness, the essence of the competitiveness in general and, in particularly, the components of staff competitiveness, the factors, which influence on the competitiveness of personnel, the role of human resources in ensuring the competitiveness of organizations were identified. It was emphasized that the human resources competitiveness depends on the quality of human resources themselves, as well as on the quality of jobs available and the socio-economic development of territories and countries. The low level of socio-economic development of territories and countries leads to the migration of the skilled employees. There were researched in the international comparison such components as skills of human resources, the level of labour market development, pay and productivity, cooperation in labour-employer relations, social capital, ICT adoption, the level of GDP per capita and average monthly salary of employees. There were developed the proposals of the socio-economic preconditions improvement which deals with forming the relevant conditions for decent pay for the human resources, their continuous professional development, the necessity of social capital forming, social dialogue and social infrastructure development, the quality of vocational education rising. It was marked out the importance of creative thinking, communication skills, emotional intelligence, flexibility, adaptability, self-organization, skills in the sphere of modern ICT using for human resources competitiveness increasing.

scholarly journals Social capital in the Poznań agglomeration

2012 ◽  
Vol 18 (18) ◽  
pp. 5-14
Author(s):  
Joanna Dominiak ◽  
Barbara Konecka-Szydłowska
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Human Capital ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Technological Advancement ◽  
Polish Literature ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Social ◽  
Socio Economic Development

AbstractSocial capital (like human capital) is an increasingly important factor of socio-economic development today. The role of social capital in technological advancement and economic development has been widely discussed in foreign and Polish literature. The main goal of this article is to analyse differences in the social capital of the Poznań agglomeration. To achieve it, the following cognitive questions will be addressed: (a) the level of social capital in the Poznań agglomeration; (b) the level of and differences in the basic components of social capital, and (c) differences in the level of social capital in the core-periphery system of the Poznań agglomeration.

scholarly journals Evolution of Perceptions about the Essence of Capital as a Scientific Category and a Factor of the Socio-Economic Development

2019 ◽  
pp. 96-110
Author(s):  
А. TARASENKO ◽  
N. HRYNCHAK ◽  
V. PARKHOMENKO
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Social Capital ◽  
Human Capital ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Economic Factors ◽  
Production Processes ◽  
The Social ◽  
Socio Economic Development ◽  
Social Wealth ◽  
The Impact

The article’s objective is to investigate the logic of evolution in the essence and forms of capital under the impact of the changing sources and factors of socio-economic development and social wealth.   The visions of capital prevailing from the middle of the eighteenth till the middle of the nineteenth century are analyzed, to demonstrate that although the classical tradition did not deny the impact of out-of-economic factors on the economy as a whole and the human behavior in particular, the analysis focused on the purely economic factors of growth and distribution of the social wealth. The paradigm of the classical school was changed in the end of nineteenth century by the emerging institutional theory: factor theories of economic growth were replaced by substantiations of multidimensional sources of socio-economic development. The twentieth century was marked by the two achievements: (i) the understanding that the social wealth could not be confined to the material wealth; (ii) a new vision of a mix of factors behind the socio-economic development: natural, technical and technological, and institutional, with research focus gradually shifting from material factors to information and institutional ones.   The following significant move in the vision of capital was the line drawn between the notions of “economic growth” and “economic development”: emphasis on economic growth as the fundament of development made the economic theory inapplicable in studies of broader development perspectives.    A new phase in the economics started in 70s of the twentieth century, with rise of the neo-institutional theory assuming that the material welfare of a nation could not be gained by means of traditional production factors and capital accumulation without a highly developed institutional structure of the society.    The philosophical and economic rediscovery of capital was made by the neo-classical school: by treating capital as a way of value utilization rather than a tangible form, it denied a criterion of capital commonly adopted in the political economy of earlier times, i. e. its alienability, together with the materialistic approach to interpretation of capital. The set of capital parameters was expanded by including in it skills and qualifications (human capital), social relations and networks (social capital), political and economic institutes (institutional capital), and, eventually, intellectual objects of intangible nature. It shows that the forms of capital were transforming from tangible (material) to human and intellectual (intangible) ones. This phase is marked by rise of the theory of human capital, reflecting the cardinal change in the role of the human factor and its impact on science and technology development, production processes and labor productivity. The notion of “social capital” was introduced in economics by abandoning out-dated visions of capital as a purely materialistic phenomenon associated with the material production processes and adopting to broader concept related with social development, with emphasis changing from links of humans and wealth to relations between humans in a broader humanistic sense.    

scholarly journals DIFFERENTIATION OF SOCIAL CAPITAL LEVEL IN RURAL CITIES OF THE WEST POMERANIAN VOIVODESHIP ACCORDING TO THE CRITERION FOR INCOME – RESEARCH RESULTS

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 27-37
Author(s):  
Beata Będzik
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
The West ◽  
Measurement Tools ◽  
Socio Economic Development ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Soft Factors ◽  
Selection Of

Evolution of societies means that factors that generate socio-economic development also evolve. Classic growth determinants are not enough to further improve the economic situation. The paper draws attention to the so-called soft factors, which are increasingly important in generating progress in highly developed countries, and focuses on one of them, i.e. social capital. It forms on the basis of trust, cooperation, participation, and these components have the strongest influence in the immediate environment. At the same time, the strength of their impact decreases with the increase of the radius of range. Therefore, it implies the selection of measurement tools which optics should be limited locally. Therefore, the aim of the article is to present the relationship between social capital and income at the local level, i.e. in rural communes of the West Pomeranian Voivodeship. This is important due to the search for categories that could contribute to creating and multiplying social capital.

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