The paper presents the main results of a research project lead by the Department of Sociology and Communication of the University of Rome, Italy to understand the impact of ICT on the job contents and the work modalities of the professional workers operating in the field of hi-tech services. The...

The increasing number of crimes in areas with large concentrations of people have made cities one of the main sources of violence. Understanding characteristics of how crime rate expands and its relations with the cities size goes beyond an academic question, being a central issue for...

This paper deals with information acquisition and communication in networked organizations. Agents receive private signals about a payoff-relevant parameter and may communicate it to other players to whom they are linked. I derive a key condition that ensures truthful communication. Since the...