modern growth theory argues that intellectual spillovers—idea flows among individuals that are not mediated by the market—are a linchpin of economic progress. In Paul Romer’s seminal work, endogenous economic growth requires increasing returns.1 Without nonmarket intellectual spillovers or some form of externality, increasing returns and economic competition cannot coexist. In Romer’s now canon...

Teenagers are among the most prolific users of social network sites (SNS). Emerging studies find that youth spend a considerable portion of their daily life interacting through social media. Subsequently, questions and controversies emerge about the effects SNS have on adolescent development. This review outlines the theoretical frameworks researchers have used to understand adolescents and SNS...

The rapid developments of Social Network Services (SNS) and mobile technology have offered opportunities to revisit seminal theories of technology use in today’s socio-technical environment. Mobile technology based SNS provides various service channels that are highly correlated with their respective service contexts, in which cultural influences are omnipresent. Investigating use intention in ...

We compare two alternative approaches for evaluating the potential of a work group or team: one that focuses on team members’ demographic characteristics and one that focuses on the members’ social networks. Given that people’s network contacts often share their demographic attributes (i.e., the network is homophilous), the two approaches seem equivalent, and the first seems preferable because ...

As online social media gain immense popularity among Internet users, we would like to explore the implication of social networking on career management. This paper links social capital theories and the impact of online social networks on ties between individuals in social and business uses. Social media contributes to building up individual digital footprint, or Internet content linked to indiv...

Research on social capital has found that individuals who access resources through social relations gain competitive advantage and systems with high levels or desirable distributions of social capital are more effective. These effects depend on actors allocating resources to others in their social system at-large instead of to others with whom they share specific social relationships. It is hyp...

This paper uncovers a counter-intuitive effect of international trade on female labor shares: whenever trade expands sectors intensive in female labor, female labor shares drop. When capital complements female labor more than male labor, the following mechanism operates: Expansions of sectors intensive in female labor come along with contractions of sectors intensive in male labor. Thus, male l...

Recently, there has been a shift in the way management scholars view the firm, from more traditional models that are based on ideas of opportunism and market failure (Williamson, 1975), to newer knowledge-based theories that argue for a more socialized perspective (Kogut & Zander, 1992). One of the key components of these theories is the notion of social capital. Social capital is the set of re...

Information systems (IS) departments have been struggling with declining enrollment since 2001. While we have shared ideas about how to increase enrollment at our conferences, few of us have looked to our theory to design initiatives to increase enrollment. This paper describes an action research project where the authors draw from IS research to design an event to increase enrollment in the IS...

Inmany developing countries, lack of IT skills and human capital impede the potential of IT investments in organizations in developing countries [Lee, J. (2001). Education for technology readiness: Prospects for developing countries. Journal of Human Development, 2(1), 115–151]. This paper draws upon theories of humanand social capital, andknowledge, to explain enablers/obstacles for knowledge ...