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Bilateral Information Sharing in Oligopoly
Currarini, Sergio; Feri, Francesco - Dipartimento di Economia, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia - 2007
We study the problem of information sharing in oligopoly, when sharing decisions are taken before the realization of private signals. Using the general model developed by Raith (1996), we show that if firms are allowed to make bilateral exclusive sharing agreements, then some degree of...
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INSTITUTIONAL POLYCENTRISM, ENTREPRENEURS’ SOCIAL NETWORKS, AND NEW VENTURE GROWTH
Batjargal, Bat - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2013
What is the interrelationship among formal institutions, social networks, and new venture growth? Drawing on the theory … number of structural holes in the entrepreneurial social networks. While the effect of this institutional order on the … revenue growth of new ventures is negative, a network’s structural holes have a positive effect on the revenue growth …
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Business networks, production chains, and productivity: A theory of input-output architecture
Oberfield, Ezra - 2011
This paper studies an analytically tractable model of the formation and evolution of chains of production. Over time, entrepreneurs accumulate techniques to produce their good using goods produced by other entrepreneurs and labor as inputs. The value of a technique depends on both the...
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Games on networks: Direct complements and indirect substitutes
Currarini, Sergio; Fumagalli, Elena; Panebianco, Fabrizio - 2013
Many types of economic and social activities involve significant behavioral complementarities (peer effects) with neighbors in the social network. The same activities often exert externalities that cumulate in stocks affecting agents' welfare and incentives. For instance, smoking is subject to...
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Coordination in Evolving Networks with Endogenous Decay
Feri, Francesco; Meléndez-Jiménez, Miguel A. - 2009
This paper studies an evolutionary model of network formation with endogenous decay, in which agents benefit both from direct and indirect connections. In addition to forming (costly) links, agents choose actions for a coordination game that determines the level of decay of each link. We address...
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Contract Enforcement by the Gods
Schumacher, Heiner; Hadnes, Myriam - 2010
We propose a theory that explains why rational agents start to believe in a causal relationship between unrelated events. Agents send and collect messages through a communication network. If they are convinced of a relationship between two events, they send messages confirming their belief with...
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Network Politics and the Arab Spring
Bishop, Jonathan; Solo, Ashu M. G. - In: International Journal of Civic Engagement and Social … 3 (2016) 1, pp. 23-27
Network politics is examined in the context of the Arab Spring. Network politics refers to politics and networks. These … networks include the Internet, private networks, cellular networks, telephone networks, radio networks, television networks …, etc. Network politics includes the applications of networks to enable one or more individuals or organizations to engage …
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The Smart City and its Citizens: Governance and Citizen Participation in Amsterdam Smart City
Capra, Carlo Francesco - In: International Journal of E-Planning Research (IJEPR) 5 (2016) 1, pp. 20-38
Smart cities are associated almost exclusively with modern technology and infrastructure. However, smart cities have the possibility to enhance the involvement and contribution of citizens to urban development. This work explores the role of governance as one of the factors influencing the...
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Management Approach of Risk Analysis in Information Security
Petrescu, Anca Gabriela - In: International Journal of Innovation in the Digital … 9 (2018) 3, pp. 13-26
This article describes how the ease of access to information and communication technologies is practically a prerequisite for the functioning of modern society. Taking the competitive market into consideration, the protection of the information infrastructure for a company, could mean that...
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Complex Network Perspective on Collaboration in the ICT Standardization
Ali-Vehmas, Timo - In: International Journal of Standardization Research (IJSR) 14 (2016) 2, pp. 33-64
Standardization is a crucial enabler of global business of Information and Communications Technologies. Convergence of the underlying networking paradigms of licensed Mobile Communication and license exempted Internet has made progress but full integration is still far from being complete. For...
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