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Informal knowledge exchanges under complex social relations: A network study of handloom clusters in Kerala, India
Cowan, Robin; Kamath, Anant - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2012
properties of their social relations and may exhibit homophily. The Saliyar community cluster in India is an archetype of this … evidence that it is not simply social embeddedness alone, but the homophily in socially embedded links that are detrimental to … unless combined with homophily. The conceptual ambit of embeddedness has to broaden out to recognise that social relations …
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Interactive knowledge exchanges under complex social relations: A simulation model
Cowan, Robin; Kamath, Anant - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2013
This is a model of knowledge exchange by means of informal interaction among agents in low technology clusters. What this study seeks to do is to colour these exchanges by placing them in an environment of complex social relations, test whether the small-world network structure is the most...
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The co-evolution of organizational performance and emotional contagion
Cowan, Robin; Jonard, Nicolas; Weehuizen, Rifka - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2012
In this paper we model interactions between organizational structures, job stress, emotional contagion and organization performance. An organization is modelled as solving problems or performing tasks. Tasks enter the organization and can be addressed by a subset of its members. Organization...
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Caste as Community? Networks of social affinity in a South Indian village
Arora, Saurabh; Sanditov, Bulat - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2009
We examine three theories of caste and community using new data on social networks among residents of a south Indian village. The first theory treats individual caste groups as separated communities driven by the Brahmanical ideology of hierarchy based on purity and pollution. The second theory...
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A percolation model of the product lifecycle
Frenken, Koen; Silverberg, Gerald; Valente, Marco - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2008
The product lifecycle model can be understood as a three-stage model of technological development associated with a particular product technology. In the explorative stage many different designs are developed, in the development stage products become standardized into a dominant design, and in...
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