infonet-economy

Firms generate new knowledge that leads to innovations by recombining existing knowledge sources. A successful recombination depends on the availability of a knowledge stock (human capital pool) and the flow of knowledge within the firm (induced by HRM systems). While human resource theory expects complementarities between human capital pools and HRM systems, it does not explicitly…

Die Autorinnen schreiben den Akteuren der Mikrofinanzidustrie eine besonder Verantwortung für uhre Kunden, die ärmeren Bevölkerungsschichten, zu. Anders als in der konventionellen Finanzindustrie sind Mikrofinanzkunden in besonderem Masse verwundbar, vulnerabel. Diese Besonderheit rechtfertigt es, hohe Anforderungen an den Kundenschutz zu stellen. Ein solcher scheint zusätzlich…

Many bipartite and unipartite real-world networks display a nested structure. Examples pervade different disciplines: biological ecosystems (e.g. mutualistic networks), economic networks (e.g. manufactures and contractors networks) to financial networks (e.g. bank lending networks), etc. A nested network has a topology such that a vertex’s neighbourhood contains the neighbourhood of…

Value and salience are key variables for associative learning, decision-making, and attention. In this chapter we review definitions of value and salience, and describe human neuroimaging studies that dissociate these variables. Value increases with the magnitude and probability of reward but decreases with the magnitude and probability of punishment, whereas salience increases with…