Social Capital and Polish Students’ Behaviour in Experimental Games Designed to Illustrate Cooperation

Markowska-Przybyła, Urszula; Ramsey, David

doi:10.14254/2071-789x.2015/8-4/14

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“…Hence social capital is strongly connected to one's ability to trust and accept dependency from others. Accordingly, in some literature, trust is perceived as a proxy indicator of social capital (Fukuyama, 1995;Kohn, 2009), while trust describes the quality of people's relations and, on a greater scale, their connectedness and their position within a given community or the whole society (Gambetta, 2000;Markowska-Przybyła and Ramsey, 2015;Szkudlarek and Biglieri, 2016).…”

Section: Social Relations and Trustmentioning

confidence: 99%

Comparison of Trust and Social Relations among Students in Russian and Hungarian Higher Education

Lazányi¹,

Čepel²,

Bilan³

2017

Economics &Amp; Sociology

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ABSTRACT.Trust is the basis of social relations and the building block of every society. However, various societies have different levels of social trust, which is a consequence of various cultural dimensions' as well as historic and economic variables' interplay. The paper intends to explore the relation of social embeddedness and the level of interpersonal trust in two significantly different cultures -Russian and Hungarian. The results presented in the article are, on the one hand, the outcomes of secondary analysis of the data obtained from the World Values Survey and the European Social Survey, on the other hand, they also offer an insight into the still ongoing primary research on 585 students in business higher education in Hungary and Russia. The results indicate that although there are gender and other demographic variables based differences, social embeddedness and national culture (values, attitudes, behaviour) is of relevant influence on the level of interpersonal trust. According to the data presented, the Hungarians -despite being a lowtrust nation -in general trust their peers more than the Russians do. However, if we distinguish between two forms of trust -thick and thin -the Hungarians then achieve significantly higher scores in thin trust only. JEL Classification: Z13

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Section: Social Relations and Trustmentioning

confidence: 99%

Comparison of Trust and Social Relations among Students in Russian and Hungarian Higher Education

Lazányi¹,

Čepel²,

Bilan³

2017

Economics &Amp; Sociology

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“…economic capital, but also with social health of society, i.e. social capital (Hamel, 2012;Handy, 1999;Ramsey, 2015). Some authors have recently presented the idea that responsible capitalism is unattainable if companies do not behave selfishly to an appropriate level (Handy, 1999).…”

Section: Social Enterprisementioning

confidence: 99%

Citizen corporation as a form of social enterprise

Slinták¹,

Tučková²

2017

EA-XXI

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This article focuses on whether it is possible to create a more democratic corporate environment without a company losing its economic efficiency. For this purpose a case study on the company W.L. Gore & Associates has been undertaken. The purpose of the study was to find out if the organisational practices within this company have features similar to those of a citizen corporation as a potential example of the concept of social enterprise. The study has shown that W.L. Gore & Associates which employs over 10,000 people at 45 plants located around the globe is a company built on democratic principles of freedom, personal commitment, fair play and participation. At the organisational level, the company has a lattice structure, which is not based on any form of formal hierarchy, branched levels of management or lines of communication. There are no managers, executive officers, bosses or directors in W. L. Gore & Associates. There is only a handful of formal functions such as the Chief Executive Officer, as required by law. However, you will not encounter this terminology in practice within the company, as it contradicts the egalitarian ideals of Gore. What is typical for the organisational and cultu ral environment in W. L. Gore & Associates are so-called natural (dynamic) hierarchies. A person does not become a lea der in W. L. Gore & Associates as a result of being appointed by a higher leader, however. Leaders emerge from those whose authority is recognised by their colleagues. The key organisational units are small, autonomous and self-managed teams that reflect the economic, as well as social, dimensions of doing business. The network form of organisation and the interconnection between the economic and social dimensions of the business have created a working environment in which natural leadership develops, a system of mutual assessment and remuneration exists, which values collegiality and personal commitment, and creates feeling of a shared purpose in the form of co-ownership. All these characteristics are similar to those found in the citizen corporation. As a result of fifty years of management innovations, the organisation structure of Gore evolved into a form that is so unique that it defies the conventional view of business orga nisations. In this model, the basic terminology describing the rea lity within this company has changed completely. W. L. Gore & Associates has no employees. It has associates. There are no jobs. There are own commitments. The company is not run by managers. The company is managed by leaders. Profits are not resources belonging to a select interest group. They are shared wealth and a reflection of personal responsibility. These unusual characteristics, which noticeably resemble those of the citizen corporation, shows that it is possible to organise businesses in a way that leads to the development of social capital while creating economic value. Слінтак К. кандидат економічних наук, кафедра економіки і підприємства, факультет менеджменту і економіки, Університет Томаша...

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“…One may argue that these three factors are associated with a feeling of dissonance or isolation within society. For example, those who express a low level of intention to follow the strategy seen to be the most likely to bring success may well feel cognitive dissonance between the way they feel they should act and the way that they see people achieving success (Markowska-Przybyła and Ramsey, 2015b). The positive results of the economic transformation that Poland has undergone are more visible in the urban areas of Poland, which has led to a feeling of injustice in rural areas, especially in the rural east (Malinowska, 2015).…”

Section: Analysis Of the Behaviour Observed And Declared Intentionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Norms of Egality and the Gap between Attitudes and Behaviour amongst Polish Students: An Experimental Study

Markowska-Przybyła¹,

Ramsey²

2017

Economics &Amp; Sociology

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ABSTRACT. Social norms and ideals play an important role in determining the attitudes and behaviour of individuals. However, in many scenarios adhering to such norms or ideals leads to an individual incurring costs. In such a case, a gap may appear between the attitudes (intentions) and the behaviour of an individual. This article considers the gap between declared and observed readiness to punish an individual seen to act unfairly on the basis an experimental version of the Ultimatum Game. The authors highlight the difficulties of analysing such a gap. This experimental game was played by a sample of 1540 Polish students of state universities in each of the 16 Polish regions. These participants also filled out a questionnaire regarding their social capital, as well as attitudes and beliefs related to inequality and reciprocation. An analysis of the behaviour of individuals is presented, together with a mathematical model describing the gap between behaviour and stated intentions.

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Social Capital and Polish Students’ Behaviour in Experimental Games Designed to Illustrate Cooperation

Cited by 6 publications

References 27 publications

Comparison of Trust and Social Relations among Students in Russian and Hungarian Higher Education

Comparison of Trust and Social Relations among Students in Russian and Hungarian Higher Education

Citizen corporation as a form of social enterprise

Norms of Egality and the Gap between Attitudes and Behaviour amongst Polish Students: An Experimental Study

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