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Author:: Fund, Bret Ryan
Title:: FROM FOUNDERS TO FIRMS: AN EXAMINATION OF THE INSTITUTIONALIZATION OF CEO SOCIAL CAPITAL
Graduate Program:: Business Administration
Keywords:: social capital
founder ceo
venture capital
social capital transfer
executive succession
new venture
governance
entrepreneurship
File:: Download Fund_Dissertation_FINAL.pdf
Committee Members:: Timothy Grant Pollock, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Wenpin Tsai, Committee Member
Donald C Hambrick, Committee Member
Forrest Scott Briscoe, Committee Member
Michele Lowry, Committee Member

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Author:: Bass, Lisa Renee
Title:: Boarding Schools and Capital Benefits: A Comparative Analysis of Student Experience in North American and South African Schools
Graduate Program:: Educational Leadership
Keywords:: bourdieu's capitals
boarding schools
social capital
cultural
education capital
at risk students
alternative education
File:: Download Lisa_Bass_Thesis_1_.pdf
Committee Members:: Nona Ann Prestine, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ladislaus M Semali, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Susan Faircloth, Ph D, Committee Member
Edgar I Farmer Sr., Committee Member
Roger C Shouse, Committee Member

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Author:: Stout, Michael Damian
Title:: Social Capital and Political Participation
Graduate Program:: Sociology
Keywords:: voluntary association
social networks
social trust
political participation
social capital
race
socioeconomic status
File:: Download Final_Draft2.pdf
Committee Members:: Duane Francis Alwin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Alan M Sica, Committee Member
Sal Oropesa, Committee Member
Constance A Flanagan, Committee Member

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Author:: Scott, Mindy E
Title:: The Effects of Nonresident Father Involvement on Offspring Well-being during the Transition to Adulthood
Graduate Program:: Sociology
Keywords:: father involvement
transition to adulthood
social capital
lifecourse
File:: Download Scott_Dissertation_Final.pdf
Committee Members:: Alan Booth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Valarie Elizabeth King, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
David R Johnson, Committee Member
David Eggebeen, Committee Member

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Author:: Modak, Rucha
Title:: Threads of Conversation: A Lived Experience of Participating and Learning About Knitting in an Unstructured Setting
Graduate Program:: Instructional Systems
Keywords:: socio-cultural perspective
informal learning
public libraries
social capital
phenomenology
File:: Download Modak_Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: Dr Alison Carr Chellman, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Alison Alene Carr Chellman, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Fred Michael Schied, Committee Member
Heather A Zimmerman, Committee Member
Steven Herb, Committee Member

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Author:: Yang, Tse-Chuan
Title:: Exploring the rural paradox: A spatial investigation of rurality and mortality
Graduate Program:: Rural Sociology
Keywords:: inequality
environmental hazards
social capital
health disparity
mortality
rurality
File:: Download etd.pdf
Committee Members:: Leif Jensen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
C Shannon Stokes, Committee Member
Diane K Mc Laughlin, Committee Member
Murali Haran, Committee Member

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Author:: Li, Shujie
Title:: Exploring the mediating effect of social capital on human capital in economic well-being: A micro-analysis of four countries
Graduate Program:: Agricultural Economics and Demography
Keywords:: social capital
human capital
economic well-being
development
United States
Japan
Brazil
the Philippines
File:: Download Thesis_Shujie_Li_16Nov2012.pdf
Committee Members:: David Gerard Abler, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
David Gerard Abler, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Stephen Michael Smith, Committee Member
Stephan J Goetz, Committee Member
David Shapiro, Committee Member
Jill Leslie Findeis, Committee Member

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Author:: Salas García, Vania Bitia
Title:: Three Essays on Economic Development: International migration, Social networks, and Social capital.
Graduate Program:: Agricultural Economics
Keywords:: Development
networking
social capital
File:: Download vania_1-DISSERTATION_VBSG.pdf
Committee Members:: Stephan J Goetz, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Stephan J Goetz, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
David Gerard Abler, Committee Member
Edward C Jaenicke, Committee Member
Kai Arthur Schafft, Committee Member

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Author:: Prather, Chris Thomas
Title:: race and place: investigating racial differences in the spatial patterning of mortality through social capital theory
Graduate Program:: Sociology
Keywords:: social capital
race
spatial autocorrelation
spatial autoregression
inequality
mortality
File:: Download Prather_Thesis_FINAL.pdf
Committee Members:: Glenn A Firebaugh, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Stephen Matthews, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Barrett Alan Lee, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Iceland, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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Author:: Corra, Jennifer Lynn
Title:: Aspirations, Expectations, and Influences on the Post-secondary Plans of Rural Youth
Graduate Program:: Rural Sociology
Keywords:: aspirations
emerging adulthood
rural
youth
habitus
social networks
social capital
File:: Download Corra_Dissertation_Final.pdf
Committee Members:: Diane Krantz Mclaughlin, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Leland Luther Glenna, Committee Member
Leif Jensen, Committee Member
Jerry G Trusty, Committee Member

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