Communication is an integral part of business settings since each functional area of a business organization depends on communication. Although such independent functions as marketing, production, finance, receive indications and instructions from corporate ideals as transposed into objectives,...

This paper presents new evidence regarding a firm's probability for survival, based on the network structure of the firm's managers. We found that start-ups that have larger informal communication networks increased their chance to survive external shock. Original data have been collected from...

This longitudinal study examines the impacts of supervisors' promotion paths and gatekeeper status on the career outcomes of technical subordinates in a dual ladder system. Results indicate that project supervisors significantly affect the chances of one's promotion along each track....

The paper aims at generalizing the notion of restricted game on a communication graph, introduced by Myerson. We consider communication graphs with weighted edges, and we define arbitrary ways of partitioning any subset of a graph, which we call correspondences. A particularly useful way to...

This paper develops a model of evolution of beliefs through communication in an exogenous social network. We assume that the agents are Bayesian updaters and that the network enables them to listen to the opinion of others about some uncertain parameter of interest. We explore the effects of the...

This paper studies the evolution of beliefs of a group of Bayesian updaters who are connected through a social network that enables them to listen to the opinions of others. Each agent observes a sequence of private signals about the value of an unknown parameter. In addition, the agent receives...

This paper develops a model of costly information acquisition by agents who are connected through a network. For a exogenously given network, each agent decides first on information acquisition from his neighbors and then, after processing the information acquired, takes an action. Each agent is...

This paper studies a mechanism design model where the players and the designer are nodes in a communication network. We characterize the communication networks (directed graphs) for which, in any environment (utilities and beliefs), every incentive compatible social choice function is partially...

We propose a two-country monopolistic competition model of business service offshoring that captures the advantage conferred by time zone differences. We emphasize the role of the entrepreneurs, who decide how to produce business services (i.e., domestic service provision or service offshoring)....

Formalism based on equilibrium statistical thermodynamics is applied to communication networks of decision-making individuals. It is shown that in statistical ensembles for choice models, properly defined disutility plays the same role as energy in statistical mechanics. We demonstrate...