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Wal-Mart and social capital: builder, destroyer, or both?
Founded in 1961, Wal-Mart has grown into the world's largest corporation. Along the way, Wal-Mart's rapid growth and aggressive tactics led to criticism about its effect on local communities. Several studies have concluded that the entry of Wal-Mart into local communities lowers wages, kills small businesses, and reduces social connectedness. As one study put it, Wal-Mart reduces social capital. A recent fascinating study by Art Carden (Rhodes College), Charles Courtemanche (University of North Carolina at Greensboro), and Jeremy Meiners (Agrem LLC) examined county-level and individual survey data, using several proxies for social capital. In a nutshell, their results do not support the hypothesis that "Wal-Mart destroys communities by reducing social capital. To conduct their research, Carden et al considered 17 measures of social capital from multiple data sources, including individual survey data, to evaluate the impact of Wal-Mart. The findings suggest that Wal-Mart affects communities in different ways..Printed journal
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| Call Number | Location | Available |
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| PSB lt.dasar - Pascasarjana | 1 |
| Penerbit | Academy of Management., |
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| Edisi | - |
| Subjek | Social impact Research Social capital discount department stores |
| ISBN/ISSN | 15589080 |
| Klasifikasi | - |
| Deskripsi Fisik | - |
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