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Digital infrastructure and physical proximity
Tranos, Emmanouil; Nijkamp, Peter - 2013
Some 2000 years ago, the average annual distance a person would normally travel, was approximately 500 km. The action radius of most people remained rather stable, but it rose gradually after the industrial revolution to some 1820 km (by car, bus, railway or aircraft) in the year 1960. Then, a...
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Digital urban network connectivity : global and Chinese internet patterns
Tranos, Emmanouil; Kourtit, Karima; Nijkamp, Peter - 2012
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Accessibility of cities in the digital economy
Tranos, Emmanouil; Reggiani, Aura; Nijkamp, Peter - 2013
This paper introduces a new measure to approach the accessibility of places in the frame of the digital economy. Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and the Internet are not equally spread around places and this heterogeneity affects spatial configuration. Despite the wide societal...
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Micro moments database for cross-country analysis of ICT, innovation, and economic outcomes
Bartelsman, Eric J.; Hagsten, Eva; Polder, Michael - 2017
This paper provides technical documentation to a database built up from firm-level sources titled Micro moments database(MMD) that is made available for researchers through Eurostat. The MMD is an internationally harmonized research database of statistical moments collected from linked...
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Knowledge virtualization and local connectedness among smart high-tech companies
Geenhuizen, Marina S. van; Nijkamp, Peter - 2011
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That's just : not fair ; gender differences in notions of justice
Becker, Nicole; Häger, Kirsten; Heufer, Jan - 2015
of selfishness and a notion of justice. The theory was tested using dictator, social planner, and veil of ignorance … experiments. Here we analyse gender differences in preferences for giving and notions of justice in experiments using the same … differences in the notion of justice between men and women; women tend to be far more egalitarian. Using our preference …
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Diffusion of behavior in network games orchestrated by social learning
Huang, Jiaping; Koster, Maurice; Lindner, Ines - 2013
The novelty of our model is to combine models of collective action on networks with models of social learning. Agents are connected according to an undirected graph, the social network, and have the choice between two actions: either to adopt a new behavior or technology or stay with the default...
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The industrial organisation of the dance industry in the Netherlands : a transaction cost perspective on hybrid forms of organisation
Butter, Frank A. G. den; Joustra, Jelle - 2014 - Version June 2014
The organization of Electronic Dance Music (EDM) events has become a major export product in the Netherlands. In order to respond quickly to the new trends and needs, innovative forms of cooperation between producers are to be set up for the organization of exciting new events. A case study on...
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Social network sites, individual social capital and happiness
Arampatzi, Efstratia; Burger, Martijn J.; Novik, Natallia A. - 2016
Can online social contacts replace the importance of real-life social connections in our pursuit of happiness? With the growing use of social network sites (SNSs), attention has been increasingly drawn to this topic. Our study empirically examines the effect of SNS use on happiness for different...
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Keeping in touch with citizens online : social media usage in dutch local government
Faber, Bram; Budding, Tjerk; Gradus, Raymond - 2019
In recent years, social media has become a major venue for the interplay between citizens and public sector organizations, in order to facilitate corporate dialog. However, not much comprehensive research has been done on how interactivity between local governments and citizens takes shape....
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