efficiency; provides further insight into why Open Source Software is a successful model of innovation and development in digital …

The amount of political information that voters decide to acquire during an electoral campaign depends, among other … candidates attach little value to information because they perceive that voting itself will have little value. Voters that are ex … ante very ideological also attach little value to information because they think that the news will hardly change their …

A number of recent formal models predict a positive effect of political knowledge on turnout. Both information … proxies of information supply on mass media. Using survey data from the 1997 British General Election Study, I show that …

We investigate the impact of information about student satisfaction on university choice, using data from the UK …

decisions to changes in the environment. We show that even if lower-level managers have superior information about local … conditions, and incentive conflicts are negligible, a centralized organization can be better at adapting to local information …

Social capital has remained relatively underexplored in innovation literature. Existing studies have failed to reach a …’ social capital – based on weak ties – can be identified as the key driver of the process of innovation while ‘bonding’ social … capital is shown to be negative for innovation. Instrumental variable analysis makes it possible to identify clear causal …

creativity. Markets for intellectual assets protected by IP rights can produce too much or too little innovation. …

compare the performance of organisational forms (M-form and U-form) in implementing changes such as innovation and reform. In … our framework, organisational forms affect the information structure of an organisation and thus the way to coordinate … more innovation and reform. The theory is illustrated by the organisational differences between China and the former Soviet …