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Power distribution and endogenous segregation

Bros, Catherine - HAL - 2008

The aim of this paper is to provide a detailed analysis of the process of segregation formation. The claim is that segregation does not originate from prejudice or exogenous psychological factors. Rather it is the product of strategic interactions among social groups in a setting where one group...

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Social Fragmentation and Public Goods Revisiting the Olson's Effect in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar

Bros, Catherine - HAL - 2009

A vast recent literature has stressed social fragmentation's negative impact on the provision of public goods. This is a key issue, given that public goods availability has been reckoned as crucial to economic development, while developing countries' societies often exhibit high degrees of...

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Economic Comparison and Group Identity: Lessons from India

Fontaine, Xavier; Yamada, Katsunori - HAL - 2012

The caste issue dominates a large part of India's social and political life. Caste shapes one's identity. Furthermore … society. We focus on both within and between-castes comparisons. Within-caste comparisons appear to reduce well … economic comparison triggers the actual caste-based behaviours (castes' political demands, discrimination). …

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Social fragmentation and public goods : polarization, inequality and patronage in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar

Bros, Catherine - HAL - 2010

, as a consequence of caste patronage. It also shown that polarization is irrelevant as social antagonisms do not seem to …

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Altruism in Networks

Bourlès, Renaud; Bramoullé, Yann - HAL - 2013

We provide the first theoretical analysis of altruism in networks. Agents are embedded in a fixed, weighted network and care about their direct friends. Given some initial distribution of incomes, they may decide to support their poorer friends. We study the resulting non-cooperative transfer...

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Les enjeux économiques de la géolocalisation pour les réseaux sociaux numériques

Bassoni, Marc; Weygand, Félix - HAL - 2011

Depuis quelques années, les réseaux sociaux et les usages qu'ils nourrissent ont pris une place significative au sein de la galaxie Internet. Parmi ces réseaux, ceux qui pratiquent la gratuité pour les utilisateurs finals n'ont pas encore stabilisé leur modèle économique et ce, malgré...

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Formes de régulations et de gouvernance formelles des communautés en ligne. Ce que dit la littérature et ce qu'il faudrait savoir

Ruzé, Emmanuel - HAL - 2009

Ce rapport de recherche est une synthèse de la littérature en sciences sociales abordant la question de la régulation formelle des communautés en ligne, en particulier celles des sites de réseaux sociaux, de partage de vidéos, de "fanfictions", les communautés open-source, open-media, les...

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Business-oriented Analysis of a Social Network of University Students

Labatut, Vincent; Balasque, Jean-Michel - HAL - 2010

Despites the great interest caused by social networks in Business Science, their analysis is rarely performed both in a global and systematic way in this field: most authors focus on parts of the studied network, or on a few nodes considered individually. This could be explained by the fact that...

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Synergies between Digital Social Networks (DSN) and e-commerce: an application of the Delphi method

Pelet, Jean Eric; David, Ballantyne; Nouet, Sébastien - HAL - 2011

The purpose of this paper is to offer customer relationship insights in what is a fast developing new e-commerce development strategy. We examine the potential synergies between digital social networks (DSN) and e-commerce websites, thus bringing e-commerce and DSN websites into the same...

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The " sustainable developpers " experience in a telecom company: reflections from a grounded experience in social innovation

Larrasquet, Jean-Michel; Pilnière, Véronique - HAL - 2011

This case study is made from an action-research intervention in a very huge multinational company of telecommunications. The objectives of the projects were to change the miond (attitudes, behavior and competences) of all these people who work in software development in the company (several...

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