Publications related to Social capital

Steel Pipes and Global Networks: The Influence of Dalmine S.p.A in Shaping Resource Extraction Infrastructures

Pipelines for extracting oil, gas, water, and supporting energy systems are part of the infrastructure of extractive sites, especially marked in countries with less urbanized areas. Throughout the twentieth century, such regions were influenced by economic ...

2023

Ecosystem Scenarios as Environmental Futures - Implications for Participatory Framework Designs Integrating Social Capital Formation and Natural Capital Preservation

Charlotte Gisèle Weil

In integrated ecosystem assessment projects, scenarios provide alternative images of environmental futures as orientation knowledge for opinion-forming and decision-making. Participatory scenario frameworks provide the methodological basis for ecosystem sc ...

Tamkang Univ2023

La mécanique sociale des mobilités. Enquête sur les inégalités de déplacements quotidiens dans trois espaces frontaliers européens

Alexis Gumy

At the crossroads of transportation engineering and urban sociology, the dissertation deciphers the interactions between daily mobility and social inequalities, what I call the "social mechanics of mobility". To do so, I draw on a twofold survey, both quan ...

EPFL2023

Maneuvering the odds: The dynamics of venture capital decision-making

Marc Gruber

Research Summary: This article investigates venture capital (VC) decision-making, a process that occurs under changing conditions and limited, ambiguous information. We shed new light on the inherent dynamics of this strategic process. One of the key disti ...

WILEY2023

Smart Toys plus plus : Exploiting the Social Connectedness for Playing and Learning

Ayberk Özgür, Arzu Güneysu Özgür

Under the umbrella of smart toys, a myriad of interactive systems have addressed a variety of scenarios considering entertainment, education, sustainability, social and environmental learning through play. Tangibles and small toy robots prevail; but intera ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2021

Institutions and Incentives in Knowledge Production and Diffusion: From Science to Innovation

Charles Chadi Ayoubi

This thesis presents four essays providing novel empirical and theoretical insights on the incentives and institutional structures that favor knowledge production and diffusion. The first two studies analyze these processes in the realm of scientific resea ...

EPFL2020

The politics of participation in transdisciplinary sustainability research: an analysis of knowledge, values and power at the science-society interface

Livia Bianca Fritz

Problem. In the field of sustainability, scholars and policy-makers herald the transformative power of participation in transdisciplinary (TD) research. The increasing use of TD in science policy is rooted in the expectation that involving practitioners in ...

EPFL2020

For Their Own Good and For the Good of Others: Identity Duality in New Venture Evaluation and Investor Decision-Making

Nettra Danette Pan

Organizing is a managerial process which demands a sense of purpose. When stories about "who we are" and "what we do" are salient and coherent (Voss, Cable & Voss, 2006), organizations can better plan, explain and justify collective action (Whetten & Macke ...

EPFL2018

Social Capital And Mutual Versus Public Benefit: The Case Of Renewable Energy Cooperatives

Thomas Jean F Bauwens

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 organizational models which may be associated with different types and ...

Wiley2017

Entrepreneurial Behavior: A Reconceptualization and Extension Based on Identity Theory

Marc Gruber

Research summaryEntrepreneurial behavior is core to our understanding of entrepreneurship. Yet, research progress is hindered because most studies adopt a traditional perspective of the construct that is embedded in economic rationality and focused on for- ...

Wiley2017

Bartering Books to Beers: a Recommender System for Exchange Platforms

Michele Catasta, Jérémie Rappaz, Maria-Luiza Vladarean

Bartering is a timeless practice that is becoming increasingly popular on the Web. Recommending trades for an online bartering platform shares many similarities with traditional approaches to recommendation, in particular the need to model the preferences ...

2017

Analysing the Role of Social Visits on Migrants’ Social Capital: A Personal Network Approach

Gil Viry, Emmanuel Pierre Jean Ravalet

There are concerns that migrants may be embedded in far-flung networks with support being less collective. The spatial dispersion of their relatives and friends would result in fragmented networks with lower solidarity and lower mutual trust than densely c ...

2017

Credit Supply and the Macroeconomy : An Empirical Analysis of Capital Regulation, Bank Lending, and Firm Behavior

Abhik Mukherjee

The policy response to the recent financial crisis has broadly focused on two themes: 1) Increasing the banking sectorsâ resilience to future financial shocks: 2) Improving credit availability to households and firms via lowering both short and long-term ...

EPFL2016

Assembler son quotidien sur la route : une ethnographie de l'habiter mobile contemporain

Lisa Maude Reitz

In a context of housing crisis and general increase in short-term/casual work, new forms of social precarity have developed since the end of the nineties in Western countries. Furthermore, a movement of voluntary shift to nomadic lifestyles is initiated. P ...

EPFL2016

Credit market frictions and capital structure dynamics

Semyon Malamud, Erwan Morellec, Julien Hugonnier

We study the implications of credit market frictions for the dynamics of corporate capital structure and the risk of default of corporations. To do so, we develop a dynamic capital structure model in which firms face uncertainty regarding their ability to ...

2015

Institutional Robotics Institutions for Social Robots

José Nuno Ferreira Maia Pereira

The way human beings engage with material things in our environment is experiencing rapid modification. Human and non-human, natural and artificial creatures are on the verge of building unprecedented relations of sociability. This paper takes this process ...

Springer2015

A Study on Social Assessment in Holistic Lifecycle Management

Dimitrios Kyritsis, Fatih Karakoyun

Sustainable manufacturing has been focus of the industry for some time. Due to the holistic nature of sustainability not only the manufacturing processes but the whole life cycle and the environmental, economic and social aspects of the product should be t ...

Springer-Verlag Berlin2015

Smart Microgrids as a Solution for Rural Electrification: Ensuring Long-Term Sustainability Through Cadastre and Business Models

Lorenzo Enrique Reyes Chamorro

The provision of energy at the local level by using renewable and local resources is increasingly acknowledged as a techno-economic solution for rural electrification. This work describes an approach for implementing microgrid projects at the institutional ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2014

Optimal energy dissipation in growing microorganisms and rectification columns

Urs von Stockar

This paper proposes a new point of view in analyzing the optimal Gibbs energy dissipation in growing microorganisms. Small Gibbs energy dissipation in growth would be of biological advantage because less resource is consumed and the biomass yield on these ...

De Gruyter2014

Inventory Management with Working Capital Restrictions

Cristopher Ariel Zeballos Avila

Working capital restrictions can have disruptive effects on the coordination of the operations and finances of a company. Working capital restrictions may limit the inventory ordering power, reduce revenues, and increase the use of high premium debt. It ma ...

EPFL2013