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Is there a preferential treatment for locals in the labor market? : evidence from takeovers
Colussi, Tommaso; Romano, Livio - 2016
of local employees retained after the takeover is negatively associated with the probability of closure of the acquiring …
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Friends with Benefits : Social Capital and Household Financial Behavior
Cannon, Brad; Hirshleifer, David; Thornton, Joshua - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Using friendship data from Facebook, we study the effects of three aspects of social capital on household financial behavior. We find that the most important measure of social capital in explaining stock market and saving participation is Economic Connectedness, defined as the fraction of one's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014512040
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Why Social Capital Matters!
Fuchs, Manfred - 2008
The resource based view of the firm and the competence-based approach both describe the firm as a "processor of knowledge". This interpretation is different from the traditional focus of transaction economics that largely conceptualises the firm as an instrument for the processing of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014047157
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Modeling Cognitive Social Capital and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) as Preconditions for Sustainable Networks of Relations
Sacconi, Lorenzo; Degli Antoni, Giacomo - 2011
The paper studies the relationship between social capital (SC) and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) by investigating the idea of a virtuous circle between the level of SC and the implementation of CSR standard of behaviour that favours the creation of cooperative networks between the firm...
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The internal mechanisms of entrepreneurs' social capital : a multi-network analysis
Hernández-Carrión, Carlos; Camarero Izquierdo, Carmen; … - In: Business research quarterly : BRQ 23 (2020) 1, pp. 1-19
The present work addresses how and to what extent the personal and professional relationship networks of small-scale local entrepreneurs help improve their scarce resource endowments. Adopting a mechanistic and functioning oriented view of social capital, the paper suggests the existence of two...
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Does it pay to have friends? : Social ties and executive appointments in banking
Berger, Allen N.; Kick, Thomas; Koetter, Michael; … - 2011
Social capital theory predicts individuals establish social ties based on homophily, i.e., affinities for similar others. We exploit a unique sample to analyze how similarities and social ties affect career outcomes in banking based on age, education, gender, and employment history to examine if...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009529217
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Does it Pay to Have Friends? - Social Ties and Executive Appointments in Banking
Berger, Allen N. - 2014
We exploit a unique sample to analyze how homophily (affinity for similar others) and social ties affect career outcomes in banking. We test if these factors increase the probability that the appointee to an executive board is an outsider without previous employment at the bank compared to being...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013065616
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Does it Pay to Have Friends? Social Ties and Executive Appointments in Banking
Berger, Allen N. - 2016
Social capital theory predicts individuals establish social ties based on homophily, i.e., affinities for similar others. We exploit a unique sample to analyze how similarities and social ties affect career outcomes in banking based on age, education, gender, and employment history to examine if...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012989217
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Director Networks and Takeovers
Renneboog, Luc - 2013
We study the impact of corporate networks on the takeover process. We find that better connected companies are more … active bidders. When a bidder and a target have one or more directors in common, the probability that the takeover … invited to the board of the combined firm in connected M&As. While connections have a clear impact on the takeover strategy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013074605
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Director Networks and Takeovers
Renneboog, Luc - 2013
We study the impact of corporate networks on the takeover process. We find that better connected companies are more … active bidders. When a bidder and a target have one or more directors in common, the probability that the takeover … invited to the board of the combined firm in connected M&As. While connections have a clear impact on the takeover strategy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013075936