Pope Benedict XVI’s 2009 Encyclical-Letter ‘‘Caritas in Veritate,’’ (CV) breaks some new ground in the tradition of Catholic social teaching. I argue that explicitly this document makes a call for a new theory of economic exchange. Whereas, the traditional scholastic theory of the ‘‘just price’’ was focused on ‘‘the principle of the equivalence in value of exchanged goods’’ (CV 35), a new theor...

The central question of this paper is what influences collaborators in electronic work environments to decide what knowledge to exchange, how much to exchange, and under what circumstances. Are scientists motivated by purely selfish economic considerations, or is there a role for social relations to influence behavior? This paper develops an empirically-based theoretical framework based on Mark...

In this column the authors discuss the ethics of information exchange in nursing practice with children. Five concepts identified in three Swedish grounded theory studies and a content analysis that used the theoretical framework of ethical demand were analyzed. A simultaneous concept analysis found five related concepts: being interconnected, acting according to accepted procedure, completenes...

Based on the spatial economics and regional innovation cooperation theory, this paper modified and redefined the spatial knowledge spillover model by Caniels, and then made empirical analysis on the influence factors of knowledge exchange among members in the innovation network via panel data method. This paper takes forward fixed traffic distance. Then it has proved the important influence fro...

We introduce an agent-based model of interaction, drawing on the contingency approach from Luhmann's theory of social systems. The agent interactions are defined by the exchange of distinct messages. Message selection is based on the history of the interaction and developed within the confines of the problem of double contingency. We examine interaction strategies in the light of the message-ex...

Computational social choice is a new discipline currently emerging at the interface of social choice theory and computer science. It is concerned with the application of computational techniques to the study of social choice mechanisms, and with the integration of social choice paradigms into computing. The first international workshop specifically dedicated to this topic took place in December...

Computational social choice is an interdisciplinary field of study at the interface of social choice theory and computer science, promoting an exchange of ideas in both directions. On the one hand, it is concerned with the application of techniques developed in computer science, such as complexity analysis or algorithm design, to the study of social choice mechanisms, such as voting procedures ...

This study integrates social resources theory and social exchange theory arguments to examine the knowledge benefits that international assignees’ host-unit social capital entails upon repatriation. Specifically, I hypothesize that assignees’ host-unit social capital, operationalized as their number of work group contacts and their proportion of trusted ties at the host unit, positively relates...

The gauge theory of arbitrage was introduced by Ilinski in [1] and applied to fast money flows in [2,3]. The theory of fast money flow dynamics attempts to model the evolution of currency exchange rates and stock prices on short, e.g. intra-day, time scales. It has been used to explain some of the heuristic trading rules, known as technical analysis, that are used by professional traders in the...