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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; Shu, Pian - 2008

We provide some of the first rigorous evidence on performance spillovers and social network in the workplace. The data we use are rather extraordinary - weekly data for rejection rates (proportion of defective output) for all weavers in a firm during a 12 months (April 2003-March 2004) period,...

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The moderating effects of national culture on the development of organizational learning culture: A multilevel study across seven countries

Škerlavaj, Miha; Su, Chunke; Huang, Meikuan - In: Journal for East European Management Studies 18 (2013) 1, pp. 97-134

This study examines the moderating effects of national culture dimensions (Hofstede 1980) on three key elements in the development of organisational learning culture: information acquisition, information interpretation and behavioral and cognitive changes. Data were collected from 1333 companies...

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Organising R&D in globalised context: Convergence or divergence? The relative influence of Dutch and foreign cultures on the organisational structure of R&D in multinational corpor...

Offereins, Anneke; Fruytier, Ben - In: Management Revue 17 (2006) 4, pp. 466-483

This paper examines national culture as an explanatory variable in the convergence versus divergence debate of R&D organisational structures. It explores the effects of globalisation on the way in which R&D processes are structured at group level. It is argued that culture may have a decisive...

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Job Matching, Social Network and Word-of-Mouth Communication

Calvó-Armengol, Antoni; Zenou, Yves - 2003

Workers are embedded within a network of social relationships and can communicate through word-of-mouth. They can find a job either directly or through personal contacts. From this micro scenario, we derive an aggregate matching function that has the standard properties but fails to be...

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Contract enforcement, institutions and social capital: the Maghribi traders reappraised

Edwards, Jeremy S. S.; Ogilvie, Sheilagh - 2008

Economists draw important lessons for modern development from the medieval Maghribi traders who, according to Greif, enforced contracts multilaterally through a closed, private-order coalition'. We show that this view is untenable. The Maghribis used formal legal mechanisms and entered business...

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Labor mobility, social network effects, and innovative activity

Kaiser, Ulrich; Kongsted, Hans Christian; Rønde, Thomas - 2011

We study the mapping between labor mobility and industrial innovative activity for the population of R&D active Danish firms observed between 1999 and 2004. Our study documents a positive relationship between the number of workers who join a firm and the firm's innovative activity. This...

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Identifying network ties from panel data: Theory and an application to tax competition

de Paula, Áureo; Rasul, Imran; Souza, Pedro C. L. - 2023

Social interactions determine many economic behaviors, but information on social ties does not exist in most publicly available and widely used datasets. We present results on the identification of social networks from observational panel data that contains no information on social ties between...

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Academic entrepreneurship in a resource contrained environment: Diversification and synergistic effects

de Silva, L. Ranmuthumalie; Uyrarra, Elvira; Oakey, Ray - 2011

This paper investigates the nature of academic entrepreneurial engagement in a resource constrained environment. In addition to context-specific contributions, the paper adds originality to the academic entrepreneurship literature by discussing diversification strategies adopted by academic...

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Mentoring network and self-monitoring personality

Kim, Seong-kook; Kim, Min-jeong - In: Management Revue 18 (2007) 1, pp. 42-54

Combining mentoring theory with social network theory, this study investigates the formation of mentoring networks. In a sample of 127 military officers, we test hypotheses regarding the relationship between self-monitoring personality and mentoring network characteristics. Protégé's...

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Energy service companies in China: The role of social networks and trust

Kostka, Genia; Shin, Kyoung - 2011

China's energy-service companies (ESCOs) have developed only modestly despite favorable political and market conditions …. We argue that with sophisticated market institutions still evolving in China, trust-based relations between ESCOs and … relations has serious limitations and is unlikely to lead to large-scale implementation of energy efficiency projects in China. …

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