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Performance spillovers and social network in the workplace: evidence from rural and urban weavers in a Chinese textile firm
Kato, Takao; Shu, Pian - 2008
We provide some of the first rigorous evidence on performance spillovers and social network in the workplace. The data we use are rather extraordinary - weekly data for rejection rates (proportion of defective output) for all weavers in a firm during a 12 months (April 2003-March 2004) period,...
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Messianic expectations and paper-based networks: The role of the merchant
McKeon, Michael - In: The Journal of European Economic History (JEEH) 52 (2023) 2, pp. 151-170
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Identifying network ties from panel data: Theory and an application to tax competition
de Paula, Áureo; Rasul, Imran; Souza, Pedro C. L. - 2023
Social interactions determine many economic behaviors, but information on social ties does not exist in most publicly available and widely used datasets. We present results on the identification of social networks from observational panel data that contains no information on social ties between...
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Mentoring network and self-monitoring personality
Kim, Seong-kook; Kim, Min-jeong - In: Management Revue 18 (2007) 1, pp. 42-54
Combining mentoring theory with social network theory, this study investigates the formation of mentoring networks. In a sample of 127 military officers, we test hypotheses regarding the relationship between self-monitoring personality and mentoring network characteristics. Protégé's...
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Job Matching, Social Network and Word-of-Mouth Communication
Calvó-Armengol, Antoni; Zenou, Yves - 2003
Workers are embedded within a network of social relationships and can communicate through word-of-mouth. They can find a job either directly or through personal contacts. From this micro scenario, we derive an aggregate matching function that has the standard properties but fails to be...
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Contract enforcement, institutions and social capital: the Maghribi traders reappraised
Edwards, Jeremy S. S.; Ogilvie, Sheilagh - 2008
Economists draw important lessons for modern development from the medieval Maghribi traders who, according to Greif, enforced contracts multilaterally through a closed, private-order coalition'. We show that this view is untenable. The Maghribis used formal legal mechanisms and entered business...
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Academic entrepreneurship in a resource contrained environment: Diversification and synergistic effects
de Silva, L. Ranmuthumalie; Uyrarra, Elvira; Oakey, Ray - 2011
This paper investigates the nature of academic entrepreneurial engagement in a resource constrained environment. In addition to context-specific contributions, the paper adds originality to the academic entrepreneurship literature by discussing diversification strategies adopted by academic...
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Labor mobility, social network effects, and innovative activity
Kaiser, Ulrich; Kongsted, Hans Christian; Rønde, Thomas - 2011
We study the mapping between labor mobility and industrial innovative activity for the population of R&D active Danish firms observed between 1999 and 2004. Our study documents a positive relationship between the number of workers who join a firm and the firm's innovative activity. This...
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Towards More Sustainable Food Systems
Kusch-Brandt, Sigrid (contributor) - 2023
Food systems are under increasing pressure. They must meet the food requirements of a growing world population, and socio-economic changes also influence the type of foods which are under demand. At the same time, food systems are a major contributor to global environmental change, and...
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Social capital, Chinese style: individualism, relational collectivism and the cultural embeddedness of the institutions-performance link
Herrmann-Pillath, Carsten - 2009
guanxi in China, which results into their re-conceptualization as Ego-centric networking and relational collectivism, based …China is the odd man out in the research on social capital and economic performance. A brief survey of recent World … Values Survey data depicts China to be a high-trust, achievement oriented society, which does not fit into popular pictures …
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