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Formal and Relational Mechanisms of Network Governance and Their Relationship with Trust : Substitutes or Complementary in Brazilian Real Estate Transactions?
Carnauba, Adriano Augusto; Boaventura, Joao; Costa … - 2021
The objective of this study was to investigate whether formal and relational mechanisms of network governance act as substitutes or are complementary in their relationship with trust in the intermediation activity of real estate transactions. We conducted a quantitative study to test the...
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Female land rights and rural household incomes in Brazil, Paraguay and Peru
Deere, Carmen Diana; Durán, Rosa Luz; Mardon, Merrilee; … - 2004
-operated farms in Brazil, Paraguay and Peru. Previous studies in Latin America suggest that the gender of the household head is not a …. We hypothesize that female land rights, by increasing women's options, are a positive determinant of household income … operative. They are negatively associated with farm income in both countries and with farm revenue in Brazil. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011527328
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011348344
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Volume of trade and dynamic network formation in two-sided economies
Pongou, Roland; Serrano, Roberto - 2013 - This version: June 2013
We study the long-run stability of trade networks in a two-sided economy of agents labelled men and women. Each agent … than for women. We propose a stochastic matching process in which self-interested agents form and sever links over time …
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Stable networks in homogeneous societies
Hellmann, Tim; Landwehr, Jakob - 2014
We study the structure of pairwise stable networks from a very general point. Rather than assuming a particular functional form of utility, we simply assume that the society is homogeneous, i.e. that agents' utilities differ only with respect to their network position while their names do not...
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The old boy network : the impact of professional networks on remuneration in top executive jobs
Lalanne, Marie; Seabright, Paul - 2016
weakly associated with women's remuneration than with men's. This mainly reflects an interaction between unobserved … individual characteristics and firm recruitment policies. The kinds of firm that best identify and advance talented women are …
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The formation of immigrant networks in the short and the long run
Epstein, Gil S.; Heizler, Odelia - In: Economies : open access journal 4 (2016) 3, pp. 1-16
In this paper, we present a formal framework of possible network formations among immigrants. After arriving in the new country, one of the new immigrant’s important decisions is with whom to maintain a link in the foreign country. We find that the behavior of the first two immigrants affects...
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Some challenges in the empirics of the effects of networks
Boucher, Vincent; Fortin, Bernard - 2015
We study some recent developments and challenges in the empirics of the effects of social networks. We focus in particular on researchers' ability to make policy recommendations based on a standard linear econometric model. We examine the potential compatibility between this type of econometric...
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Corporate Competition : A Self-Organized Network
Braha, Dan - 2011
A substantial number of studies have extended the work on universal properties in physical systems to complex networks in social, biological, and technological systems. In this paper, we present a complex networks perspective on interfirm organizational networks by mapping, analyzing and...
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The Myths and the Reality of Chinese Business Networks : Book Review
Todeva, Emanuela - 2013
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