COTE, Louis
La place du capital social comme facteru explicatif des differences de performance des conseils regionaux de developpment du Quebec - 2001
This work present the result of an empirical study on the regional institutions set up in Quebec in 1991, when a new regional development strategy was adopted. The purpose of the study was to measure and compare the relative performance of the regional development boards and to assess the role of the regional social capital as a factor that could explain the discrepancies found. The performance was assessed on the basis of eighteen indicators using quantitative and qualitative data. The results were collated into a single performance indicator; depending on the regions, the performance ranged from merely fair to goo. In order to determine the undelying causes of differences in performance, seven hypotheses based on sociological theory were tested. Only the social capital hypothesis based on socio-accounted for nearly fifity-eight per cent of the performance variation. Moreover, the analysis raised a number of issues pertaining to social capital
La place du capital social comme facteru explicatif des differences de performance des conseils regionaux de developpment du Quebec - 2001
This work present the result of an empirical study on the regional institutions set up in Quebec in 1991, when a new regional development strategy was adopted. The purpose of the study was to measure and compare the relative performance of the regional development boards and to assess the role of the regional social capital as a factor that could explain the discrepancies found. The performance was assessed on the basis of eighteen indicators using quantitative and qualitative data. The results were collated into a single performance indicator; depending on the regions, the performance ranged from merely fair to goo. In order to determine the undelying causes of differences in performance, seven hypotheses based on sociological theory were tested. Only the social capital hypothesis based on socio-accounted for nearly fifity-eight per cent of the performance variation. Moreover, the analysis raised a number of issues pertaining to social capital
