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Role of Strong <i>versus</i> Weak Networks in Small Business Growth in an Emerging Economy
Kozan, M. Kamil; Akdeniz, Levent - In: Administrative Sciences 4 (2014) 1, pp. 35-50
The study tests whether strong rather than weak ties account for small business growth in Turkey. Data were collected …
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The Strength of Weak Affects
Baurmann, Michael - In: Rationality, Markets and Morals 3 (2012) 11
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Investigation of the Relationship between Entrepreneurial Opportunity Recognition and Entrepreneurial Capitals
Ramezanpour, Susan; Amiriyan, Seyran; Shirazy, Ali … - In: International Journal of Asian Social Science 4 (2014) 5, pp. 598-613
The heart of entrepreneurship is the creation and/or recognition of opportunities. Although there is no universal … definition of entrepreneurship, opportunity recognition has been viewed as the central definition of this phenomenon. Without an … opportunity there is no entrepreneurship. Therefore opportunity recognition is widely seen as a key step of the entrepreneurial …
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The Strength of Strong Ties: University Spin-offs and the Significance of Historical Relations
Johansson, Mattias; Jacob, Merle; Hellström, Tomas - In: The Journal of Technology Transfer 30 (2005) 3, pp. 271-286
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Social ties and venture creation by returnee entrepreneurs
Pruthi, Sarika - In: International Business Review 23 (2014) 6, pp. 1139-1152
Recent years have witnessed the return of individuals of Indian or Chinese origin from developed markets to their home countries to start new ventures. Returnee Entrepreneurs (REs) facilitate both direct technology transfer and indirect technology spillovers to local firms, thus contributing to...
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How urbanization affect employment and social interactions
Sato, Yasuhiro; Zenou, Yves - In: European Economic Review 75 (2015) C, pp. 131-155
We develop a model where the unemployed workers in the city can find a job either directly or through weak or strong ties. We show that, in denser areas, individuals choose to interact with more people and meet more random encounters (weak ties) than in sparsely populated areas. We also...
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The importance of social networks’ weak ties in business development
Ioanid, Alexandra; Svasta, Mihai; Hermel-Stanescu, Maria - International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences - 2014
This paper aims to present the importance of weak ties in social networks for sharing information at personal level … the dynamic of business social networks starting from Granovetter's theory and Burt’s social capital theory and offers … practical examples of how to develop a business using the weak ties in social networks, such as the well-known Facebook platform …
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How Urbanization Affect Employment and Social Interactions
Sato, Yasuhiro; Zenou, Yves - Graduate School of Economics, Osaka University - 2013
We develop a model where unemployed workers in the city can find a job either directly or through weak or strong ties. We show that, in denser areas, individuals choose to interact with more people and meet more random encounters (weak ties) than in sparsely populated areas. We also demonstrate...
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Knowledge Mobilization through Social tieS: The Cost-Benefit Analysis
Fliaster, Alexander; Spiess, Josef - In: Schmalenbach Business Review (sbr) 60 (2008) 1, pp. 99-117
Social network ties enable collaborative creation and sharing of ideas between knowledge workers. Thus, these ties play an important role in organizational innovation as well as for the personal success of the innovators. However, scholars tend to focus only on the information benefits,...
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How Urbanization Affects Employment and Social Interactions
Sato, Yasuhiro; Zenou, Yves - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We develop a model where the unemployed workers in the city can find a job either directly or through weak or strong ties. We show that, in denser areas, individuals choose to interact with more people and meet more random encounters (weak ties) than in sparsely populated areas. We also...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010737584