Record Details

The Social Capital as an Element of Development

International Journal of Operations and Logistics Management

View Archive Info
 
 
Field Value
 
Title The Social Capital as an Element of Development
 
Creator Moyers, Carlos German Palafox
Blanco, Joel Enrique Espejel
Flores, Benjamin Burgos
Pequeño, Javier Antonio Garcia
 
Subject Social Capital, Social Trust, Violence, PLS Models, Mexico
 
Description The objective of this paper is to analyze the composition and level of consolidation of Social Capital quantified through the Trust and Solidarity, the Collective Action, and the connection and the Social Inclusion in the town of Navojoa. Through the Analysis of Principal Components were identified the principal variables which form the Social Capital. After determined the components, it was adapted to the local context the questionnaire that develop the World Bank. Subsequently was made and validated a structural model to test the causal relations proposals between the variables object to analysis. The results obtained evidenced that the Social Capital is vulnerable and it have a poor develop, which encourage the increase of high rates of violence, poverty, job insecurity and marginalization, that obstruct the regional develop. The governmental implications are design social policies that allow a pacific coexistence and encourage the economic develop and social of the region.
 
Publisher Academy of Business & Scientific Research
 
Contributor The authors are grateful for financial support of the Ministry of the Interior (SEGOB), the National Commission to Prevent and Eradicate Violence against Women (CONAVIM) and Federal Subsidy for Municipal Public.
 
Date 2014-03-01
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://absronline.org/journals/index.php/ijolm/article/view/155
 
Source International Journal of Operations and Logistics Management; Vol 3, No 1 (2014): March; 80-100
2309-8023
2310-4945
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://absronline.org/journals/index.php/ijolm/article/view/155/176
 
Rights Copyright (c) 2014 International Journal of Operations and Logistics Management