one of the common ways to identifying and representing himself, especially in the modern age, cultural consumption. often people in cultural consumption, types of commodities and precious symbols, in order to create favorable images of themselves in the minds of others are taking.the choice of specific pattern of cultural consumption, cultural preferences or practices, the need for cultural res...

This paper aims to test endogenous growth models based on technology spillovers. So far similar models have tested the effects of total physical capital formation and international capital goods flows on long-run economic growth. We exploited VAR models and explored that imported machinery and equipment has no long-run growth effects. However, in the short-run, growth effects appeared in most o...

This paper investigates the e¤ect of country-level …nancial development on the formation of corporate groups. Since cross-country regressions are hard to interpret in a causal sense, we use exogenous industry measures to investigate a speci…c channel through which …nancial development may a¤ect group a¢ liation: internal capital markets. Using a comprehensive …rm-level dataset on European corpo...

Recent diffusion models cannot explain why the success of technology diffusion depends so critically on developing countries’ human capital levels. This paper examines three main issues. First, we endogenize both appropriate technologies and human capital formation. Second, we refine the human capital accumulation process by introducing uncertainty about worker quality and training efficiency. ...

The venture capital industry is characterized by strong inter-organizational networks that have been shown to affect VC firm performance and the competitive supply of capital for entrepreneurs. We examine how VC firms’ observable resources are related to tie formation, and thus how networks facilitate the distribution and combination of resources across organizations. Unlike the social networks...

IT outsourcing success depends on efficient management of client-vendor relationships, wherein, boundary spanners play a crucial role. Boundary spanners are individuals, who operate at the boundary of an organization, performing relevant tasks (Leifer & Delbecq, 1978). In this research we use a qualitative case research method to address the research question “How do boundary spanners influence...

A dynamic general equilibrium model is constructed to examine the impact of mass immigration on capital accumulation in life-cycle economies. The model is calibrated to match Canadian demographic characteristics over 1861–1913. This was a period when Canada experienced a dramatic shift in migration patterns, with increasing immigration flows, and a surge in domestic savings and capital inflows....

The paper studies the effects of cross-country differences in human capital formation on income distributions. Our overlapping generations economy has the following features: (1) consumers are heterogenous with respect to ability and parental human capital; (2) intergenerational transfers take place via parental education and, public investments in education Þnanced by taxes (possibly, with a l...

As Social Network Sites (SNS) permeate our daily routines, the question whether participation results in value for SNS users becomes particularly acute. This study adopts a 'participation-source-outcome' perspective to explore how distinct uses of SNS generate various types of social capital benefits. Building on existing research, extensive qualitative findings and an empirical study with 253 ...

The aim of the present study was to find underlying factors of social capital acquisition in online gaming communities (guilds). 391 players of World of Warcraft were asked about their playing habits, their behavior towards fellow players and the bridging and bonding social capital they received by playing. Path analysis revealed five underlying factors of social capital formation in guilds. Ou...