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internal promotions and job-to-job mobility. Both, formal applications and referral hiring via endogenous social networks, can … link formation is gender-biased (homophily) there are too few female contacts in the social networks of their male … level management positions of firms. Our results suggest that endogenously forming homophilous social networks when female …
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diffusion of imperfect competition models, networks and mathematical programming. One of the most powerful tools within social …
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. Particularly, the question of the relationship between geography and networks has been debated. Yet, at the inter-regional level …, there is no study assessing the effect of networks on the the value of knowledge flows. This may come from the fact that … methodological tools assessing network characteristics at the dyadic level are lacking for aggregated networks (such as the network …
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This paper analyse how previous experience and affiliation influence individual employees but also the current employers. Knowledge can be embodied in several different forms, in individuals, in books, in machines, or in processes. Human capital refers to embodied knowledge in individuals,...
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the exchange of knowledge. Our paper relies on two theoretical concepts. First, we apply the global cluster networks … small actors have been chosen as partners in collaborative R&D networks across Europe. …
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In this explorative study, we adopt a knowledge-centred perspective on clusters and investigate whether clusters' internal structure explains clusters' external (knowledge) collaborative strategies. All in all, the main analytical issue underlying this paper is the following: do internal...
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This paper aims to contribute to the identification of the key parameters of cluster life cycles. We assume that clusters are embedded in larger technological fields, so that the search for these parameters focuses on the way by which clusters could disconnect their cycle from the cycle of...
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Why do people appear to forgo information by sorting into “echo chambers”? We construct a highly tractable multi-sender, multi-receiver cheap talk game in which players choose with whom to communicate. We show that segregation into small, homogeneous groups can improve everybody’s...
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inefficient networks such as the empty network. On the other hand, it may include networks with unreciprocated, one-way links … benefit-maximizing equilibrium networks. …
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centralized networks. All predictions are confirmed in an experiment. …
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