The availability of social media data is growing and represents a new data source for economic research. This paper presents a detailed study on the use of data from a careeroriented social networking platform for measuring employee flows and employer networks. The employment data are exported...

While most social network studies of employee innovation behavior examine the focal employees' (“egos'”) network structure, we employ an alter-centric perspective to study the personal characteristics of employees' network contacts — their “alters” — to better understand employee...

This paper discusses empowering employees through networking and mentoring and provides a model for implementation addressed and more often than not discussed in organizations today. The next logical step is to develop a model which addresses Mentoring, Empowering and Networking (M. E. N.) and...