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Introduction -- A (brief) history of understanding space and place -- The phenomenology of place -- The mobile device as a thing: the gathering of place digitally -- Sharing location with locative social media -- The social capital of locative social media -- Conclusions

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; Chapter 1: Introduction; 1. Introduction; 2. Foundations of Transmedial Worlds; 3. Methods: Studying Engagement with Transmedial Worlds; 4. Appropriations; 5. Connections; 6. Evaluation; 7. Lifetimes; Notes; References; Chapter 2: Foundations of Transmedial Worlds; Early Foundational Work on Transmediality and Transmedial Products; Franchise-centric Transmedial Research; Medium-centric Transmedial Research; Narrative-centric Transmedial Research; Character-centric Transmedial Research

Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Corporate social irresponsibility / Agata Stachowicz-Stanusch -- Corporate social performance as a global concept -- Cultural perspective on sustainable socioeconomic development / Mehdi Majidi -- Failures to act responsibly : the role of firm's competitiveness in the post-scandal phase / Arabella Mocciaro Li Destri, Anna Minà, and Pasquale Massimo Picone -- Corporate social performance : an endurance pathway forfamily firms in emerging markets? (a conceptual model) / Rosa Nelly Trevinyo-Rodriguez -- Corporate social performance as a cross national phenomenon -- Corporate social responsibility, income distribution and the environment : an empirical study for the European Union / Oscar Alfranca Burriel -- Transparency and compliance policies of multinationalcompanies in Latin America / Nikos Passas and Matthias Kleinhempel -- Corporate social responsibility in Africa : context, paradoxes, stakeholder orientations, contestations and reflections / Thomas Kimeli Cheruiyot and Patrick Onsando -- Perspectives on evolution of corporate social responsibility practices in Chinese organizations / Ruth Alas -- Csr perforce : implementing CRS in the Indian scenario / Soma Kamal Tandon -- Development of CSR index in Croatia : the history of wishful thinking-come true? / Mislav Ante Omazić and Mirjana Mateic -- Corporate social performance: cases from practice -- Csr and sustainability practices of the hotel industry / Anupriya Desore, Sapna A. Narula, and Ambika Zutshi -- Attitudes towards corporate social responsibility in family -- Businesses in Italy / Alessandra Murru and Lucia Rocchigiani -- Project Conga : an unresolved social license / Pedro P. Franco -- Corporate social responsibility in tourism: past and presentscholar's contributions / Claudia Melis and Ernestina Giudici -- About the authors

Background  This study reports development of a social support scale appropriate to the Vietnamese culture and the impact of social support on mothers of children with cognitive delays by using the developing scale.Method  Interview surveys were conducted with 225 mothers of children with and without cognitive delays in Vietnam. The structural and functional social supports were examined in relation to two aspects of stress, parental competence and role restriction. Demographic variables were incorporated in examining the relationships between social support and stress.Results  The social support scale had adequate reliability and structural and functional aspects comparable to those found in Western societies. Two domains in functional support, material and family‐directed support, alleviated stress when controlling for child disability status and sociodemographic variables.Conclusions  The results showed that informal and functional social support have some effect on maternal stress. However, when other variables were examined in combination, child disability was the strongest predictor of maternal stress.

This systematic, critical review of more than 600 recent publications in social impact assessment (SIA) and related fields is based on the authors' belief that SIA is more than an analytical technique--it is also a logical and timely response to our ever-growing need for more and better information to facilitate decision making in an increasingly c

"The social dynamics of innovation networks captures the important role of trust, social capital, institutions and norms and values in the creation of knowledge in innovation networks. In doing so, this book connects to a long-standing debate on the socio-spatial context of innovation in economic geography, which is usually referred to as the Territorial Models of Innovation (TIMs) literature.This present volume breaks with the TIM literature in several important ways. In the first place, this book emphasizes the role of individual agency because individuals and their networks are increasingly recognized as the principal agents of knowledge creation. Secondly, this volume looks at space as a continuous field of opportunity rather than as bounded territory with a set of endowments, such as knowledge base and social capital. Although individually these elements are not new to the TIM literature, it has thus far failed to grasp their critical implication for studying the social dynamics of innovation networks.The approach to the socio-spatial context of innovation in this volume is summarized as Knowledge Economy 2.0. It emphasizes that human creativity is now the main source of economic value and that human creativity and knowledge creation is not an organized process within organizations, but happens bottom up in formal and informal professional and social networks of individuals that cut across multiple organizations. "--

Social capital and information technology: current debates and research / Marleen Huysman and Volker Wulf -- Trust, acceptance, and alignment: the role of IT in redirecting a community / Anna-Liisa Syrj(c)Þnen and Kari Kuutti -- The effects of dispersed virtual communities on face-to-face social capital / Anita Blanchard -- Find what binds: building social capital in an Iranian NGO community system / Markus Rohde -- How does the internet affect social capital? / Anabel Quan-Haase and Barry Wellman -- The ties that share: relational characteristics that facilitate information seeking / Rob Cross and Stephen P. Borgatti -- Exploring the eagerness to share knowledge: the role of social capital and ICT in knowledge sharing / Bart van den Hooff, Jan de Ridder, and Eline Aukema -- Design requirements for knowledge-sharing tools: a need for social capital analysis / Marleen Huysman -- Explaining the underutilization of business-to-business clusters: the role of social capital / Charles Steinfield -- The impact of social capital on project-based learning / Mike Bresnen ... [et al.] -- Sharing expertise: the next step for knowledge management / Mark S. Ackerman and Christine Halverson -- Pearls of wisdom: social capital building in informal learning environments / Robbin Chapman -- Expertise finding: approaches to foster social capital / Andreas Becks, Tim Reichling, and Volker Wulf -- Fostering social creativity by increasing social capital / Gerhard Fischer, Eric Scharff, and Yunwen Ye

Intro -- Preface -- PART ONE: POLICY -- 1. Regional problems in socio-economic policy -- 2. Social planning in a regional framework -- 3. Normative problems and social issues in regional analysis -- 4. Regional policy and planning in social perspective: A planner's point of view -- 5. Regional policy as social planning -- 6. The impact of social organization and environment upon the time-use of individuals and households -- 7. Regional and environmental planning in social perspective -- PART TWO: INTEGRATION -- 1. Welfare economics and the 'unified approach' to development planning -- 2. The city as development centre -- 3. A sociological concept of polarized development -- 4. Towards an operational definition of psychological distance -- 5. Social issues in regional policy and regional planning -- 1. Problems of social policies in regional planning: The experience of Poland -- 2. Social aspects of regional planning -- 3. Some social aspects of regional development in Latin America -- 4. Social disparities and regional policy in Britain -- 5. Urban planning and its impact on the quality of urban life in West European cities -- 6. Urbanisation, domestic planning problems and Swedish geographic research -- PART FOUR: RESEARCH -- 1. The role of social equipment and environment in regional economic growth -- 2. A framework for dealing with the urban environment: Introductory statement -- 3. The urban-regional dimension in regional planning research -- 4. The integrated social science approach to regional planning in developing countries -- 5. Sociological aspects of regional development and of planning for regional development: Some issues and areas for further exploration -- 6. Regional or spatial sociology? -- 7. The sociological failure in regional planning: Comments on some recent publications in the field of sociology and planning.