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The purpose of this paper is to analyze the effects on the Italian directorship network of the corporate governance reform that was introduced in Italy in 2011 to prevent interlocking directorships in the financial sector. Interlocking directorships are important communication channels among...
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In recent literature a relevant problem has been the relationship between career/personal contact networks and different career paths. In addition, the recent advances in social capital theory have shown the way in which networks impact on personal careers. In particular women's careers appear...
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predicted by a weighted Bonacich centrality index, with weights accounting for distance-two relations. We find that both maximal …
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We study lobbying in a setting in which decision-makers share resources in a network. Two opposing interest groups … choose which decision-maker they want to target with their resource provision, and their decision depends on the decision … higher resource flow as well as homophily reinforce decision-makers' ideological bias. We highlight that competing lobbyists …
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Theories on diversity and diversity management within the field of Organisation Studies started to develop in the 80s …, mainly under the influence of managerial reports pointing towards the increasing diversity of the future workforce. The … purpose of this paper is to 1) review the existing studies on diversity identifying their main purposes, 2) identify the …
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The paper is an overview of diversity in history, starting as far back as the societies in classical Ancient Europe and … between status and class. The second part of the paper is devoted to diversity outside formal society with the definitions of … diversity and marginality. …
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The aim of this paper is to investigate the relationship between the diversity of groups of workers and the local …
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This paper presents evidence of the effects of gender diversity on firm innovation outcomes and their productivity in … endogeneity issues of women’s participation in STI and innovation behavior. An upward bias of the impact of gender diversity on … innovation might arise because more dynamic and innovative managers, knowing the value of gender diversity, may also hire more …
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