Essays about: "strong and weak ties"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 30 essays containing the words strong and weak ties.

1. 21. I Don't Know You, but I Trust You: A Qualitative Study of Interpersonal Trust-Building in Social Media

   University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för företagande och ledning

   Author : Anna Edding Heijde; Jessica Guter; [2016]
   Keywords : Interpersonal trust; Social media; Trust as a process; Trustworthiness; Emotions;

   Abstract : With the rise of social media, people have established trusting relations to people whom they have never met in real life. Trust between people is in existing theory defined as interpersonal trust, but has not yet been studied in a context that lacks the aspect of face-to-face interactions. READ MORE

3. 22. The Disembedded Entrepreneur

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionen

   Author : Jonathan Galovan; [2016]
   Keywords : Entrepreneurship; Embeddedness; Disembeddedness; Network; Resources.; Business and Economics;

   Abstract : Abstract Title: The Disembedded Entrepreneur Seminar date: 14-01-2016 Course: FEKH99, Degree Project in Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management, Undergraduate level, 15 University Credit Points Author: Jonathan Galovan Supervisor: Caroline Wigren Key words: Entrepreneurship, Embeddedness, Disembeddedness, Network, Resources. Purpose: The purpose of this research is to explore, analyze and better understand how the novice and disembedded entrepreneur embed in a new social context. READ MORE

4. 23. Network development among habitual entrepreneurs when starting a new venture in a different industry

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionen

   Author : Nikolay Minev; Karen Margrethe Sørensen; [2016]
   Keywords : Networks; social resources; network process development; habitual entrepreneurs; industry experience and context change.; Business and Economics;

   Abstract : Purpose - The purpose of this research is to investigate how the business network develops, when habitual entrepreneurs enter into a different industry context. How these entrepreneurs expand their existing networks, and how they build new networks, when entering new industry context. Design - Qualitative analysis. READ MORE

5. 24. Banks' Social Capital Investment : Qualitative Insights from Sweden

   University essay from Umeå universitet/Företagsekonomi

   Author : Crystal Holmes Zamanian; Lisa Åström; [2014]
   Keywords : social capital; banks Sweden; investment networks; networking; socialt kapital; nätverkande; banker Sverige; nätverk;

   Abstract : Having recognized the merits of social capital research within other study areas, the authors of this degree project take a look at this concept from a relatively untouched perspective, banks. Social capital has long been a staple in both political science as well as sociology discourse. READ MORE

6. 25. Against the trend: why Russians prefer a local social networking site over the global leader of the industry

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för informatik och media

   Author : Roman Rogozhnikov; [2014]
   Keywords : social networking sites; SNS; Facebook; Vkontakte; Russia;

   Abstract : The proliferation of social networking sites (SNS) over the last 20 years is a techno-social phenomenon of our age. Since it emerged in 2004, Facebook, the most popular social network in the world, steadily outcompeted its rivals in the overwhelming majority of countries. READ MORE