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The impact of knowledge loss on an organization is a largely unexplored area of strategic management. This article reports the fi ndings from an in-depth case study of an organization within the Australian Department of Defence, which suggest that lost human capital may produce decreased organizational output and productivity; lost social capital may reduce organizational memory; lost structura...

the objective of the present research is to study the effect of the social capital on the competitive behavior of the companies with the applied nature. the research method is descriptive-analytic and has a correlational type.the statistical population of the research includes sixty managers of the food industry companies in hamedan. the statistical sample of the research includes fifty two man...

1567-4223/$ see front matter 2011 Elsevier B.V. A doi:10.1016/j.elerap.2011.10.001 ⇑ Corresponding author. Tel.: +886 2 2939 3091x85 E-mail addresses: [email protected] (C.-C. (J.-S. Chiou). This study applies social capital theory to investigate how a player’s network centrality in an online gaming community (i.e., a guild) affects his/her attitude and continuance intention toward a Massi...

This study compares the effects of minimum wage laws on employment and earnings among low-skilled immigrants and natives in the U.S. Conventional economic theory predicts that higher minimum wages lead to higher earnings among the employed but lower employment rates. Minimum wage increases might have larger effects among low-skilled immigrants than among natives because, on average, immigrants ...

We are investigating the role of online social interactions on the quality of life and well-being of people aged 65 years and over. We have conducted workshops and one-to-one semi-structured interviews, and have had free-flowing informal exchanges with our participants who have shared stories and incidents with us. Initial findings indicate that older people need an incentive to get and stay on...

SRIYA IYER*, MICHAEL KITSON† and BERNARD TOH‡ *Faculty of Economics and St Catharine’s College, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 9DD, UK. Email: [email protected] †Judge Business School and St Catharine’s College, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1AG, UK. Email: [email protected] ‡Department of Economics, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK. Email: bernard.toh@g...

Contrary to popular opinion, scholarly research has documented that immigrant communities are some of the safest places around. Studies repeatedly find that neighborhood immigrant concentration is either negatively associated with crime and delinquency or not related to crime and delinquency at all. Less well understood, however, is why this is the case. A critical limitation of existing resear...