7 articles in this issue
Juergen Lerner,Margit Bussmann,Tom A. B. Snijders,Ulrik Brandes
Longitudinal social networks are increasingly given by event data, i.e., data coding the time and type of interaction between social actors. Examples include networks stemming from computer-mediated communication, open collaboration in wikis, phone call d... see more
Ildiko Husz
Hungary has a higher unemployment rate than the member states of the European Union and even most former socialist countries. This rate for 15-64 year-olds has been around 56% since 1999, as against 66% in the European Union (OECD Employmen... see more
Richard Muko Ochanda
The study contributes to the discourse on grassroots organizations by studying the traditional Harambee Self Help Groups in Kenya in the light of social enterprise and third sector discourses. Data for this study was provided by provincial administration ... see more
Ágnes Gyori
This paper describes the results of an investigation into the finance-related innovative ability of Hungarian micro, small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) by using two datasets (from 2006 and 2010). The author explored SMEs’ levels of openne... see more
Julianna Faludi
This recent book contains the essence of the outstanding work of Zelizer concerning her analysis of economic institutions from the perspective of culture and society. Economic activities are viewed using a micro-habitual approach according ... see more
Ildikó Dén-Nagy
The concepts of social networks, social capital and trust and their impact on the economic arrangements and performance of nascent capitalist economies have raised many research questions in the post-socialist countries of Europe. The follo... see more
Dániel Ihász-Tóth,Michelle Nagy-Crosby
Do Sociological Theories Meet Economic Realities?– went the provocative subtitle of the most recent international economic sociology conference ´Embeddedness and Beyon ´, held in Moscow, October 2012. Indeed, approaches towards dealing with... see more