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Conceptualizing interpersonal relationships in agile IS development

Madsen, Sabine; Matook, Sabine - 2010

Agile information systems development (ISD) is a people-centered approach that emphasizes frequent interaction and genuine co-operation between customers and developers. While business relationships are the norm in the workplace, agile ISD leads to the creation of close interpersonal...

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Birds of a feather get lost together : new venture team composition and performance

Steffens, Paul R.; Terjesen, Siri A.; Davidsson, Per - 2011

. Our study makes two contributions. First, we extend earlier research concerning homophily theories of the prevalence of …

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Reaching Up: The influence of gender, status, and relationship type on men's and women's network preferences

Stallings, Monica M - 2010

variables: gender-based homophily, status, and relationship type. In Study 1 and Study 2, I test the effect of status alone and … then the interaction between status and gender-based homophily to determine who men and women are most likely to approach …-status others when seeking career-related advice. I also find widespread gender-based homophily for women but limited gender …

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Networks, Information & Social Capital

Aral, Sinan; Van Alstyne, Marshall - 2008

This paper investigates how information flows enable social networks to constitute social capital. By analyzingthe information content encoded in email communication in an executive recruiting firm, we examinethe long held but empirically untested assumption that diverse networks drive economic...

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Information, Technology and Information Worker Productivity

Aral, Sinan; Brynjolfsson, Erik; Van Alstyne, Marshall - 2008

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...

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Learning and Inference in Massive Social Networks

Hill, Shawndra; Provost, Foster; Volinsky, Chris - 2007

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,...

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A Structural Model of Segregation in Social Networks

Mele, Angelo - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - 2010

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...

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Social Networks, Personalized Advertising, and Privacy Controls

Tucker, Catherine - Sloan School of Business, MIT - 2010

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...

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How healthy is my network? A quick guide to assessing the capacity of your network to produce results

Murphy, Glen D. - 2007

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...

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Peer Effects in Sexual Initiation: Separating Social Norms and Partner Supply

Richards, Seth O. - 2010

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...

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