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dynamics by enhancing communication and knowledge spillovers in corporate networks. Active networkers gain important …
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for employees to work in co-ethnic firms. It argues that strong social networks and related high intra-group trust …
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’s friends are similar to oneself with regard to ethnicity and religion. We find that people who have friendship networks with …
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We study how the diffusion of broadband Internet affects social capital using two data sets from the UK. Our empirical strategy exploits the fact that broadband access has long depended on customers' position in the voice telecommunication infrastructure that was designed in the 1930s. The...
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networks and firm performance. Specifically, I use resource dependence theory (Pfeffer & Salancik, 1978) and social capital … networks. SNA is used to measure a the number of ties a director has to other directors in the top-105 company director network …
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groups in the UK. Our empirical findings suggest that, though personal networks are a popular method of finding a job for the … differences across ethnic groups with some groups losing out disproportionately from using personal networks. …
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We study how the diffusion of broadband Internet affects social capital using two data sets from the UK. Our empirical strategy exploits the fact that broadband access has long depended on customers position in the voice telecommunication infrastructure that was designed in the 1930s. The actual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012175072
One definition of social capital is the "networks of relationships among people who live and work in a particular … this definition, is still very broad. Networks can be formed along many dimensions of society in which people interact … – neighborhoods, workplaces, extended families, schools, etc. We focus on networks whose existence fosters social capital in one …
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among the companies listed on the Tehran Stock Exchange (TSE). Since the criteria for the norms and the networks are …
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We study the impact of broadband penetration on social capital in the UK. Our empirical strategy exploits a technological feature of the telecommunication infrastructure that generated substantial variation in the quality of Internet access across households. The speed of a domestic connection...
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