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Open innovation across the prosperity gap: An essay on getting the Caucasus back into the European innovation society
Roth, Steffen - In: IBSU Scientific Journal (IBSUSJ) 2 (2008) 2, pp. 5-20
The paper shows how both intra-national and international strategies of open innovation and crowdsourcing could be used …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280572
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Open innovation across the prosperity gap: an essay on getting the Caucasus back into the European innovation society.
Roth, Steffen - In: IBSU Scientific Journal 2 (2008) 2, pp. 5-20
The paper shows how both intra-national and international strategies of open innovation and crowdsourcing could be used …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008836634
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Wie weit geht Crowdsourcing? : transnationale Open-Innovation-Strategien gegen den Braindrain der GUS-Staaten
Roth, Steffen; Ströhle, Lorenza - 2016
Vor dem Hintergrund der Abwanderung hochqualifizierter Arbeitskräfte aus den GUS-Staaten zeigt die vorliegende Arbeit … anhand der Arbeitsweise zweier Schweizer Open- Innovation-Dienstleister, wie Open-Innovation- und Crowdsourcing …-Strategien nachhaltige Vorteile aus der exzellenten Bildungsinfrastruktur der GUS-Staaten schöpfen können. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011557191
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Is unemployment a consequence of social interactions? Seeking for a common research framework for economists and other social scientists
Tolciu, Andreia - 2008
This article aims to summarize the existing body of literature on social interactions and their effect on individual unemployment status. Two directions of the ongoing research are analyzed: the impact of social norms on unemployment and the importance of social networks in the job search...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010305474
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What a difference peers can make: The impact of social (work) norms on unemployment duration
Tolciu, Andreia - 2009
This article outlines a model of how social interactions among persons belonging to the same region might influence the individual unemployment duration. The impact is assumed to be enhanced through social work norms shared by peers within the group. Building on a range of German data sets and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010305489
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Urban Spatial Structure, Employment and Social Ties: European versus American Cities
Picard, Pierre M.; Zenou, Yves - 2015
We develop a model where workers both choose their residential location (geographical space) and their social interactions (social space). In equilibrium, we show under which condition some individuals reside close to the job center while others live far away from it. Even though the two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307367
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Socialism without liberation: Land Reclamation Projects in Guinea-Bissau
Kohnert, Dirk - In: Sociologia Ruralis 28 (1988) 2/3, pp. 161-175
One of the outstanding aims of most liberation movements has been to increase the economic well-being of their people, Guinea-Bissau being no exception in this respect. How far has the new Nation State succeeded in fulfilling this aim? A comparative analysis of the implementation of land...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011327902
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Boundedly rational opinion dynamics in social networks: Does indegree matter?
Battiston, Pietro; Stanca, Luca - 2015
This paper investigates opinion dynamics and social influence in directed communication networks. We study the theoretical properties of a boundedly rational model of opinion formation in which individuals aggregate the information they receive from their neighbors by using weights that are a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011335941
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Urban Spatial Structure, Employment and Social Ties
Picard, Pierre; Zenou, Yves - 2015
We develop a model where workers both choose their residential location (geographical space) and social interactions (social space). In equilibrium, we show under which condition the majority group resides close to the job center while the minority group lives far away from it. Even though the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011400636
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Economic action in South Korea: An heuristic attempt
Lee-Peuker, Mi-Yong - 2004
This paper presents an heuristics of economic action in South Korea which is based on a qualitative study conducted on-site. It focuses on the idea of experience-near concepts - as introduced by Clifford Geertz - and is verbalised by the terms affiliation, indebtedness and mediation. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011422125