Essays about: "institutional distance"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 56 essays containing the words institutional distance.

  1. 16. The relationship between institutional and interpersonal trust and health information seeking behaviour in Sweden – a quantitative analysis

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Sociologiska institutionen

    Author : Gabriella Stuart; [2020]
    Keywords : Medical sociology; health information seeking behaviour; interpersonal trust; institutional trust; health information; health behaviour;

    Abstract : Trust for health care professionals (interpersonal trust) and the health care system (institutional trust) is imperative for the performance of health care systems. However, at the same time, contemporary societies today are characterised by decreasing levels of trust and citizens today are increasingly inclined to seek health information from sources beyond health care professionals. READ MORE

  3. 17. Impact of Microcredit Program on Women's Empowerment in Rural Bangladesh

    University essay from Karlstads universitet

    Author : Gias Uddin Ahmed Choudhury; [2020]
    Keywords : Microcredit; Women Empowerment; Ordinary Least Squares; Probit Model; Instrumental Variable Regression.;

    Abstract : Background – This study is an attempt to explore the relationship between microcredit and the socio-economic empowerment of women in rural Bangladesh. Microcredit is simply the extension of a small amount of collateral-free institutional loans to jointly liable poor group members to generate employment and income enhancing activities. READ MORE

  4. 18. Who will survive in Stockholm Archipelago? : A longitudinal analysis of firm-survival in a peripheral region

    University essay from Södertörns högskola/Företagsekonomi

    Author : Youssouf Merouani; [2020]
    Keywords : firm-survival; Stockholm Archipelago; peripherality; multilevel modeling; three-level lo-gistic regression.;

    Abstract : This longitudinal study investigates firm-survival in a peripheral region. The analysis relies on a unique longitudinal dataset, encompassing all firms in 17 Stockholm Archipelago islands during 2000-2019, collected through data triangulation methods. READ MORE

  5. 19. The dangerous path to school and empowerment: a case study investigating the difficulties of empowerment in education for girls in West Kalungu County District, Uganda

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Linnea Hay; [2019]
    Keywords : Girls’ education; Uganda; Empowerment; qualitative case study; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Getting girls to go to and ​stay​ in school is a worldwide issue - predominantly in the global south where it is a particular problem in Sub-saharan Africa where poverty is particularly high. This issue is also one of gender, as the majority of children who do not have access/go to school are female. READ MORE

  6. 20. It is obvious that they are not afraid of what this might do : A Qualitative Minor Field Study of International Female Entrepreneurs in Thailand

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för marknadsföring (MF)

    Author : Michelle Crambé Lundh; Nellie Wedin; [2019]
    Keywords : Female Entrepreneurship; Thailand; SME;

    Abstract : For as long as internationalization has been a research topic, the risks surrounding it has been discussed. Several theories have emerged concerning how to go about international business, which entry modes and strategies to use as well as which markets to enter and at which pace - everything in order to reduce the risks of business failure. READ MORE