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Free-riding and knowledge spillovers in teams : the role of social ties
De Paola, Maria; Gioia, Francesca; Scoppa, Vincenzo - 2016
basis of individual performance and the other graded on the basis of the team performance. We find that students assigned to … socially connected teams perform significantly better than control students in both the team part and the individual part of …
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Digital waste? : unintended consequences of health information technology
Böckerman, Petri; Kortelainen, Mika; Laine, Liisa T.; … - 2019
We exploit a large-scale natural experiment - the rollout of a nationwide electronic prescribing system in Finland - to study how digitization of prescriptions affects pharmaceutical use and health outcomes. We use comprehensive administrative data from patients treated with benzodiazepines,...
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School-based healthcare and absenteeism : evidence from telemedicine
Komisarow, Sarah; Hemelt, Steven W. - 2023
The prevalence of school-based healthcare has increased markedly over the past decade. We study a modern mode of school-based healthcare, telemedicine, that offers the potential to reach places and populations with historically low access to such care. School-based telemedicine clinics (SBTCs)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013499181
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Civility and trust in social media
Antoci, Angelo; Bonelli, Laura; Paglieri, Fabio; … - 2018
Social media have been credited with the potential of reinvigorating trust by offering new opportunities for social and political participation. This view has been recently challenged by the rising phenomenon of online incivility, which has made the environment of social networking sites hostile...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011795226
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Competition, group identity, and social networks in the workplace : evidence from a Chinese textile firm
Kato, Takao; Shu, Pian - 2011
Using data on team assignment and weekly output for all weavers in an urban Chinese textile firm between April 2003 and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009523474
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Coordination under the shadow of career concerns
Koch, Alexander K.; Morgenstern, Albrecht - 2009
To innovate, employees need to develop novel ideas and coordinate with each other to turn these ideas into better products and services. Work outcomes provide signals about employees' abilities to the labor market, and therefore career concerns arise. These can both be 'good' (enhancing...
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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 (contributor); Shu, Pian (contributor) - 2008
-ability teammates who are urban residents. Such heterogeneous performance interdependence of workers within the same team suggests that … our evidence for performance spillovers is less likely to be a result of team specific demand shocks that generate … spurious performance interdependence of all team members. -- Knowledge sharing ; performance spillovers ; social network …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003656913
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Inventors' coworker networks and innovation
Di Addario, Sabrina; Serafinelli, Michel - 2024
This paper presents direct evidence on how firms' innovation is affected by access to knowledgeable labor through co-worker network connections. We use a unique dataset that matches patent data to administrative employer - employee records from "Third Italy" - a region with many successful...
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(Lack of) pension knowledge
Barrett, Alan; Mosca, Irene; Whelan, Brendan J. - 2013
Governments are increasingly concerned about the capacity of pensions systems to meet demands in the coming years. According to the OECD, one part of the policy response in many countries will be greater private provision on the part of individuals through occupational and other pension...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010125872
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Does knowledge empower? : education, legal awareness and intimate partner violence
Erten, Bilge; Keskin, Pinar - 2021
This paper uses an extension of compulsory schooling in Turkey to estimate the causal effects of education on women's legal awareness of laws that were designed to reduce gender inequality and prevent domestic violence. By implementing a regression discontinuity design, we find that the...
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