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Building Up Social Capital in a Changing World: A Network Approach
Vega-Redondo, Fernando - 2003
This paper models the dynamic process through which a large society may succeed in building up its "social capital" by establishing a stable and dense pattern of interaction among its members. In the model, agents interact according to a collection of infinitely repeated Prisoner's Dilemmas...
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Social Capital and Labour Productivity in Italy
Sabatini, Fabio - 2006
This paper carries out an empirical assessment of the relationship between social capital and labour productivity in small and medium enterprises in Italy. By means of structural equations models, the analysis investigates the effect of different aspects of the multifaceted concept of social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010312481
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The role of reciprocation in social network formation, with an application to blogging
Gaudeul, Alexia; Giannetti, Caterina - 2011
This paper deals with the role of reciprocation in the formation of individuals' social networks, that is to what extent initiating a relation brings about its reciprocation. Following the activity of a panel of bloggers over more than a year, we seek to establish whether bloggers are mainly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286486
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The localization of entrepreneurship capital: evidence from Germany
Audretsch, David B.; Keilbach, Max - 2007
Whereas initially physical capital and later, knowledge capital were viewed as crucial for growth, more recently a very different factor, entrepreneurship capital, has emerged as a dri-ving force of economic growth. In this paper, we define a region's capacity to create new firms start-ups as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263827
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In guter Gesellschaft? Sozialstruktur und soziale Beziehungen in Kleinstädten
Schiemann, Sara; Steinführer, Annett - In: Kompendium Kleinstadtforschung, (pp. 209-234). 2021
Der Beitrag widmet sich den Sozialstrukturen und sozialen Beziehungen in Kleinstädten: Es werden die zentralen Begrifflichkeiten geklärt, ein Überblick über den bisherigen Forschungsstand gegeben sowie offene Fragen für die Kleinstadtforschung benannt. Der Beitrag zeigt auf, dass...
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Social Networks and Labor Market Transitions
Bramoullé, Yann; Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2004
We study the influence of social networks on labor market transitions. We develop the first model where social ties and job status coevolve through time. Our key assumption is that the probability of formation of a new tie is greater between two employed individuals than between an employed and...
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Discovery and diffusion of knowledge in an endogenous social network
Chang, Myong-hun; Harrington, Joseph E. - 2003
We explore the evolution of the structure and performance of a social network in a population of individuals who search for local optima in diverse and dynamic task environments. Individuals choose whether to innovate or imitate and, in the latter case, from whom to learn. The probabilities of...
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Social capital, transition in agriculture, and economic organisation: a theoretical perspective
Valentinov, Vladislav - 2003
Sozialkapital wird definiert als geteiltes Wissen, Vertrauen und gemeinsame Kultur, eingebettet in Netzwerkstrukturen … und andere stabile Beziehungen zwischen Agenten. Es hat sich gezeigt, dass Sozialkapital schwieriger aufzubauen ist als … ökonomisches Kapital und dass es größere Auswirkungen auf die Gemeinschaft als Ganzes hat. Die Relevanz des Sozialkapital …
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Key players and key groups in teams: A network approach using soccer data
Sarangi, Sudipta; Unlu, Emre - 2010
This paper provides a way of evaluating a player's contribution to her team and relates her effort to her salaries. We collect data from UEFA Euro 2008 Tournament and construct the passing network of each team. Then we determine the key player in the game while ranking all the other players too....
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Vertrauen und Sozialkapital an einer wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Universität der Bundeswehr München und in Deutschland: Eine empirische Studie
Sell, Friedrich L.; Reidelhuber, Martin - 2007
Grundlagen der (auch) in den Wirtschaftswissenschaften verwendeten Begriffe "Vertrauen" and "Sozialkapital" erarbeitet, um …" und "Sozialkapital". Zweitens hat sich ergeben, dass beide Untersuchungsgruppen systematisch (mehr oder weniger abstrakten …
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