Social capital is thought to play an economic role in the labour market. It may beparticularly pertinent in one that is in transition from an administered to a market-orientedsystem. One factor that may determine success in the underdeveloped Chinese labourmarket is thus guanxi, the Chinese...

This paper investigates the relationship between a CEO’s social network, firm identity, andfirm performance. There are two competing theories that predict contradictory outcomes.Following social network theory, one would expect a positive relation between social networksand firm performance,...

We present evidence on social incentives in the workplace, namely on whether workers’ behavioris affected by the presence of those they are socially tied to, even in settings where thereare no externalities among workers due to either the production technology or the compensationscheme in...

This paper presents evidence on how farmers’ decisions to adopt a new crop, sunflower,relate to the adoption choices of farmers in their social network of family and friends. Weshow that the relationship is shaped as an inverse-U, suggesting social effects are positivewhen there are few...

Dieser Beitrag bewertet das quantitative Verfahren Sociel Mining und das quantitative Verfahren Netnographie aus der Anwendersicht des Customer Relationship Management.

We run a computerised experiment of network formation where allconnections are bene…cial and only direct links are costly. Players simul-taneously submit link proposals; a connection is made only when bothplayers involved agree. We use both simulated and experimentally gen-erated data to test...

Social networks are currently gaining increasing impact especially in the light of theongoing growth of web-based services like facebook.com. A central challenge for the socialnetwork analysis is the identification of key persons within a social network. In this context,the article aims at...

Many Online Social Networks do not generate sustainable revenues through advertising, even though active usage hasreached enormous scales. To enable more effective advertising strategies in Online Social Networks, it is essential to identifyusers who can affect a large number of friends,...

Soziale Netzwerke im Web haben sich innerhalb weniger Jahre zu einem globalen Phänomenmit erheblicher gesellschaftlicher und wirtschaftlicher Bedeutung entwickelt. Sie erreichen immenseNutzerzahlen, wobei alleine Facebook.com mehr als 600 Millionen aktive Mitglieder zählt. Indiesem Zuge wird...

With the increasingly ubiquitous nature of Socialnetworks and Cloud computing, users are starting to explore newways to interact with, and exploit these developing paradigms.Social networks are used to reflect real world relationships thatallow users to share information and form connections...