Local government organizations have recently been attracted to social media applications to improve services to their communities. Yet, limited scholarly attention has been devoted to understanding social media adoption across local government. This study addresses this shortcoming by exploring the factors that drive the adoption of social media within Australian local government. The findings ...

Social media platforms and services have rapidly grown into an important societal phenomenon, lately also with increased impact on business. The relative novelty of its occurrence in a business context, the lack of well-grounded best practice and the scarcity of research, result in organizational decision-makers having to rely on vendor descriptions and trade press articles to make sense of soc...

We study the mechanisms according to which social infrastructure influences the preservation of physical capital and, consequently, economic growth. The presented model considers that social infrastructure is a specific type of human capital, which acts in order to preserve already existing physical capital, by, e.g. reducing the incentive for rent seeking or corruption. Using an innovative met...

Framing the product attribute(s) in either positive or negative way can result in different responses. This phenomenon is referred to attribute framing effect. This article reported results from a laboratory experiment which examines the influence of message framing and information amounts on Internet buyers’ judgments. The amount of information was defined in terms of the number of attribute i...

S IGNIFICANT debates on the financing of old-age and survivors insurance preceded and accompanied the enactment of the original Social Security Act of 1935 and its revisions in 1939 and in 1950. Contribution rates, reserve fund accumulation, and current-cost versus levelpremiilm financing were the topics most widely debated. The same issues were involved in the discussions that led Congress to ...

Social and economic networks are ubiquitous, serving as contexts for job search, technology diffusion, the accumulation of human capital and even the formulation of norms and values. The systematic empirical study of network formation, the process by which agents form, maintain and dissolve links – within economics is recent, is associated with extraordinarily challenging modeling and identific...

This paper explores the institutional factors behind the crisis of capital accumulation in South Africa in the 1970s and 1980s. Because of its focus on institutional stability, the paper contributes to the literature on the existence of an apartheid social structure of accumulation in which economic and political institutions are important determinants of investment. Investment function estimat...

Pensions--broadly defined to include social security as well as employer-provided plans-comprise a significant component of total household resources, but their impact on household wealth accumulation is controversial. This paper reviews previous theoretical and empirical on how pensions affect saving. The empirical literature on the effects of traditional pensions and 401(k) plans contains a r...

Despite the increasing importance of using text mining and social media technologies in policy-making, an in-depth literature review on this area has yet to be conducted. In this paper, we develop a conceptual framework and review 55 articles related to the development of text mining applications for policymaking. The conceptual framework provides a concise illustration of the stages of policy-...

Much research in social psychology has shown that otherwise helpful people often fail to help when bystanders are present. Research in developmental psychology has shown that even very young children help and that the presence of others can actually increase helping in some cases. In the current study, in contrast, 5-year-old children helped an experimenter at very high levels when they were al...