Strengthening International Ties Can Support Increased Convergence of Privacy Regimes

Intergenerational Solidarity: Strengthening Economic and Social Ties

Preface Never before have we witnessed a " silent revolution " of such significance for all sectors of society as the global phenomenon of population aging, which has a direct bearing on the meaning of generations, cohorts and intergenerational solidarity. Two key elements of this transformation stand out. First, there is a new architecture of society that entails social change, which challenge...

Theories of international regimes

Effects of Managerial Ties and Appropriability Regimes on Open Innovation

In today’s globalized world, firms are increasingly seen shifting from the traditional innovation model 1 which relied on a firm’s internal R&D to the more porous open innovation paradigm which utilizes resources both internal and external to a firm to come up with innovations. However success in the open innovation paradigm is contingent upon some internal and external factors of a firm. This ...

Social ties, knowledge spillovers and regional convergence

We take th e F u jita & Thisse (2003) grow th-cum -geography m odel to investigate th e effect of m igration and enduring social re lationships on regional p roduction and grow th. We assert th a t m igration is an im ­ p o rta n t fac to r to overcome th e d istance decay effect of cross-regional knowledge spillovers, while social ties determ ine th e ex ten t to which th is is th e case. O ur...

Mobile phones andcore network growth in Kenya: Strengthening weak ties

In contrast to recent US studies showing a decrease in core network size, our Kenyan data reveals substantial network growth. We attribute this to the diffusion of mobile telephones. Results from pooled survey data from Nairobi professionals and entrepreneurs in 2002 and 2007 as well as qualitative interviews from 2007 to 2009 show virtual saturation in the diffusion of phones during this perio...