Search Results - subject:"Observational Learning"

Social learning in networks of friends versus strangers

Zhang, Jurui; Liu, Yong; Chen, Yubo - In: Marketing science 34 (2015) 4, pp. 573-589

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Like Doktorvater, like Son? Tracing Role Model Learning in the Evolution of German Laser Research

Buenstorf, Guido; Geissler, Matthias - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 234 (2014) 2-3, pp. 158-184

Summary We trace individual-level learning and knowledge transfer in public research by matching about 5,000 doctoral dissertations and their advisors over the full history of German laser research. We study the number of laser-related dissertations per advisor, publication and patent outputs of...

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Like Doktorvater, like Son? Tracing Role Model Learning in the Evolution of German Laser Research

Buensdorf, Guido; Geissler, Matthias - In: Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbuecher fuer … 234 (2014) 2-3, pp. 158-184

We trace individual-level learning and knowledge transfer in public research by matching about 5,000 doctoral dissertations and their advisors over the full history of German laser research. We study the number of laser-related dissertations per advisor, publication and patent outputs of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010907959

Observational learning with position uncertainty

Monzón, Ignacio; Rapp, Michael - In: Journal of Economic Theory 154 (2014) C, pp. 375-402

Observational learning is typically examined when agents have precise information about their position in the sequence …

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Overcoming the barriers to the market performance of green consumer goods

Kaufman, Noah - In: Resource and Energy Economics 36 (2014) 2, pp. 487-507

observational learning and costly search wherein a green consumer product enters a market to challenge an established “dirty …

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Social Learning in Economics

Mobius, Markus; Rosenblat, Tanya - In: Annual Review of Economics 6 (2014) 1, pp. 827-847

Social learning is a rapidly growing field for empirical and theoretical research in economics. We encounter social learning in many economically important phenomena, such as the adoption of new products and technologies or job search in labor markets. We review the existing empirical and...

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Optimal influence under observational learning

Tsakas, Nikolas - Action IS1104 "The EU in the new complex geography of … - 2014

We study a problem of optimal influence in a society where agents learn from their neighbors. We consider a firm that seeks to maximize the diffusion of a new product whose quality is exâ€“ante uncertain, to a market where consumers are able to compare the qualities of two alternative...

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Exploring observational learning in leadership development for managers

Kempster, Steve; Parry, Ken - In: Journal of Management Development 33 (2014) 3, pp. 164-181

Purpose – Observational learning within the leadership development of managers is under-theorized thus far. The purpose … processes affecting observational learning. Design/methodology/approach – The contribution is to draw together research to build … a holistic model of observational learning. A further contribution is to apply this model to the context of leadership …

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Imitating the Most Successful Neighbor in Social Networks

Tsakas, Nikolas - In: Review of Network Economics 12 (2014) 4, pp. 403-435

Abstract We study a model of observational learning in a set of agents who are connected through a social network. The …

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Exploring observational learning in leadership development for managers

Kempster, Steve; Parry, Ken - In: The journal of management development 33 (2014) 3, pp. 164-181

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010366741