The innovation process is a fundamental source of economic growth and recent research in urban economics and economic geography suggests that geographical proximity between innovators may be important to technological innovation. Many authors also claim that the rise of a knowledge-based economy...

This paper studies the nature, sources and determinants of international patenting activity in LatinAmerican countries (LACs) and examines the extent to which LACs benefit from R&D that isperformed in the G-5 countries (France, Germany, Japan, United Kingdom, and United States). Byusing patents...

We consider the dynamics of knowledge-based sources of advantage as they move betweengeographical locations and multinational and other firm level networks using the specialistcontext of Formula 1 motor over a fifty nine year period. We suggest that shifts incompetitive advantage are underpinned...

This thesis examines and explains multinational employers' experiences of localized shortages of skilled process workers in Suzhou Industrial Park (SIP), China. It explains three challenges facing SIP employers in accessing sufficient skilled process workers and their responses within HRM to...

We study the fine-grained relationships among information flows, IT use,and individual information-worker productivity, by analyzing work at amidsize executive recruiting firm. We analyze both project-level andindividual-level performance using: (1) direct observation of over125,000 e-mail...

Researchers and practitioners increasingly are gaining access to data onexplicit social networks. For example, telecommunications and technologyfirms record data on consumer networks (via phone calls, emails,voice-over-IP, instant messaging), and social-network portal sites suchas MySpace,...

In this paper, I develop and estimate a dynamic model of strategicnetwork formation with heterogeneous agents. The main theoretical resultis the existence of a unique stationary equilibrium, which characterizesthe probability of observing a specific network in the data. As aconsequence, the...

This paper investigates how internet users' perception of control overtheir personal information affects how likely they are to click ononline advertising. The paper uses data from a randomized fieldexperiment that examined the relative effectiveness of personalizing adcopy to mesh with existing...

A criticism often levelled at poor HR practice is that practitioners "don’t know the business" or are "isolated in their ivory towers". However the diverse nature of the roles played by HR practitioners naturally leads to the development of networks not only within the organisation, but...

Sexual activity among adolescents is associated with risks such as pregnancy and STDs, and there is substantial policy interest in how peers influence the timing of sexual initiation. This paper measures separate effects for two social mechanisms--peer-group norms and partner availability--using...