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Wie weit geht Crowdsourcing? : transnationale Open-Innovation-Strategien gegen den Braindrain der GUS-Staaten
Roth, Steffen; Ströhle, Lorenza - 2016
Vor dem Hintergrund der Abwanderung hochqualifizierter Arbeitskräfte aus den GUS-Staaten zeigt die vorliegende Arbeit … anhand der Arbeitsweise zweier Schweizer Open- Innovation-Dienstleister, wie Open-Innovation- und Crowdsourcing …-Strategien nachhaltige Vorteile aus der exzellenten Bildungsinfrastruktur der GUS-Staaten schöpfen können. …
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Social networks
Martí, Joan de; Zenou, Yves - 2009
We survey the literature on social networks by putting together the economics, sociological and physics/applied mathematics approaches, showing their similarities and differences. We expose, in particular, the two main ways of modeling network formation. While the physics/applied mathematics...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003909559
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Juvenile delinquency and conformism
Patacchini, Eleonora; Zenou, Yves - 2010 - Revised: July 2, 2009
This paper studies whether conformism behavior affects individual outcomes in crime. We present a social network model of peer effects with ex-ante heterogeneous agents and show how conformism and deterrence affect criminal activities. We then bring the model to the data by using a very detailed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008729273
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Social networks
Martí, Joan de; Zenou, Yves - 2009
We survey the literature on social networks by putting together the economics, sociological and physics/applied mathematics approaches, showing their similarities and differences. We expose, in particular, the two main ways of modeling network formation. While the physics/applied mathematics...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003925546
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Is unemployment a consequence of social interactions? : seeking for a common research framework for economists and other social scientists
Tolciu, Andreia - 2008
This article aims to summarize the existing body of literature on social interactions and their effect on individual unemployment status. Two directions of the ongoing research are analyzed: the impact of social norms on unemployment and the importance of social networks in the job search...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009160626
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What a difference peers can make : the impact of social (work) norms on unemployment duration
Tolciu, Andreia - 2009
This article outlines a model of how social interactions among persons belonging to the same region might influence the individual unemployment duration. The impact is assumed to be enhanced through social work norms shared by peers within the group. Building on a range of German data sets and...
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Boundedly rational opinion dynamics in social networks : does indegree matter?
Battiston, Pietro; Stanca, Luca M. - 2015
This paper investigates opinion dynamics and social influence in directed communication networks. We study the theoretical properties of a boundedly rational model of opinion formation in which individuals aggregate the information they receive from their neighbors by using weights that are a...
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Non-technological and non-economic innovations : contributions to a theory of robust innovation
Roth, Steffen (contributor) - 2015
Although the label innovation is applied to almost everything, with even the diffusion of innovations to society being called innovation, innovation research remains focused on bringing technology to the economic market. This dissonance provoked the central questions discussed at the 2nd...
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Socialism without liberation : land reclamation projects in Guinea-Bissau
Kohnert, Dirk - 1988
One of the outstanding aims of most liberation movements has been to increase the economic well-being of their people, Guinea-Bissau being no exception in this respect. How far has the new Nation State succeeded in fulfilling this aim? A comparative analysis of the implementation of land...
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Strong ties in a small world
Leij, Marco van der; Goyal, Sanjeev - 2006
In this paper we test the celebrated `Strength of weak ties' theory of Granovetter (1973). We test two hypotheses on the network structure in a data set of collaborating economists. While we find support for the hypothesis of transitivity of strong ties, we reject the hypothesis that weak ties...
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