This paper presents a systematic review of the literature on smart governance, defined as
technology-enabled collaboration between citizens and local governments to advance …

This chapter explains how, regional social legitimacy influences the relationships between
individual entrepreneurial beliefs, intentions and start-up behaviour and how the interaction …

The aim of the paper is to develop a more nuanced and multilevel understanding of the
social network arena in which the rural social entrepreneur operates. We introduce and …

This article provides new insight into the local institutional embeddedness of entrepreneurial
behaviour. By introducing a sociological institutional framework for place-based …

This substantially revised edition of a highly topical text draws upon theory from Marx and
Bourdieu to offer a clearer understanding of community in capitalist society. The book takes …

Purpose This paper promotes a critical approach to co-operative studies by contributing new
theoretical insights. The aim is to propose a new view on the co-operative firm as a …

The purpose of the study was to examine the relationship between cooperative governance
and non-financial performance of cooperative societies in Uganda. The study used cross …

The article examines the role of housing cooperatives for social cohesion in the city by
introducing linking social capital which grasps the vertical dimension of social capital …

One potential major role of social economy organizations in sustainability transitions is the
creation and mobilization of social capital. Yet, the social economy gathers very distinct …

It is widely accepted that an appropriate combination of quantitative and qualitative methods
provides a better understanding of research problems as opposed to using them separately …