Social networks have become an everyday tool in our lives and different social networks have different target groups. Among them LinkedIn is greatly preferred by the people who are in the professional occupations. With the rapid growth of social networks, people tend to misuse them for unethical and illegal conducts. Creation of a fake profile becomes such adversary effect which is difficult to...

We explore what benefits network position in online business social networks like LinkedIn might confer to an aspiring entrepreneur. We compare two network attributes, size and embeddedness, and two actor attributes, location and diversity, between virtual and real-world networks. The promise of social networks like LinkedIn is that network friends enable easier access to critical resources suc...

In this project we compare the success of startup entrepreneurs and innovators with their social networking behavior. In particular, we analyze the LinkedIn, Facebook, and e-Mail network of swissnex, Switzerland’s science and technology outpost in Boston connecting Swiss and American entrepreneurs and academics for collaborative work. We invited 500 members of the swissnex community to share th...

Bu çalışmanın amacı, bireylerin sosyal bir iş ağı olan LinkedIn algısını incelemektir. Araştırma, Mayıs 2018-Ocak 2019 tarihleri arasında gerçekleştirilmiştir. Web tabanlı anket uygulanmıştır. ağını kullanan 456 mevcut ve potansiyel işgören üzerinden araştırmanın verileri toplanmıştır. Araştırma bulgularına göre; katılımcıların algılama düzeyleri ile yaşları anlamlı ilişki vardır. fonksiyonelli...

Gender imbalances in work environments have been a longstanding concern. Identifying the existence of such imbalances is key to designing policies to help overcome them. In this work, we study gender trends in employment across various dimensions in the United States. This is done by analyzing anonymous, aggregate statistics that were extracted from LinkedIn’s advertising platform. The data con...