1. The spatiality of trust ? Antecedents of trust and the role
   of face-to-face contacts
    Nilsson, Magnus (CIRCLE, Lund University)
    Mattes, Jannika (Institute for Social Sciences, CETRO,
      University of Oldenburg, Germany and CIRCLE, Lund
      University, Sweden)
In this paper we analyze how the spatiality of interactions
influences trust creation in multi-site corporate innovation
projects. By drawing on insights from the discussion on initial
and gradual trust and connecting them to contributions from the
field of economic geography, we examine different antecedents of
trust and their dependence on face-to-face interaction. We
thereby illustrate the complexity of initial and gradual trust
creation and the interplay between personality traits, group-
based similarities, situational and institutional factors,
reputational inference, and personal interaction as trust
antecedents. We can show that the speed and level of resilient
trust creation is decisively influenced by the frequency and
duration of face-to-face exchange between key project actors. The
empirical insights are based on two qualitative case studies on
specific innovation projects in multinational companies. Our
findings stress the need to incorporate space as a facilitating
factor in the analysis of trust development.
Keywords: Trust; spatiality; proximity; face-to-face; project
          work
JEL:      M10
Date:     2013-04-17
URL:      http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hhs:lucirc:2013_016&r=soc
         2. The Effect of Outside Leaders on the Performance of the
   Organization: An Experiment
    Marcela Ibanez (Georg-August University G?ttingen)
    Elke Schaffland (Georg-August University G?ttingen)
In order to deal with crises, organizations often bring expert
leaders from outside. However, relying in an outside leader can
result in decreased performance of the organization. In this
paper, we use an experiment to investigate the role of identity
and skills of the outside leader on the performance of the
organization. Our results indicate that outside leaders are less
committed than inside leaders and that group members cooperate
less with an outsider than an inside leader.
Keywords: Social Identity; Leadership; Public Good Game; Lab
          Experiment
Date:     2013-09-16
URL:      http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:got:gotcrc:149&r=soc
         3. Daily life explorers, social networks and landscape policies
    Salustri, Andrea
The article sheds light on virtual networks? capability of
driving landscape changes, both at epistemological level and at
geographical level. ?Living in? the landscape brings out the main
drivers of change at individual level, while the ICTs are
offering complementary places, with respect to those ones already
existing, for increasing people?s role in sharing values and
meanings. Then, common visions might emerge and ?inform?
landscape policies, indirectly influencing the meaning of
wellbeing. Specifically, the socioeconomic theory might
constitute a missing link between regulatory issues and
technological achievements, enhancing and combining the new
opportunities for participation offered by the European Landscape
Convention, and by the widespread diffusion of social networks on
the web. Indeed, ?living in? the landscape inspires a plurality
of visions that people are able to describe and share on the web
or send directly to the interested institutions. Geographers
might collect these issues and explore the landscape by living in
it in order to produce ?ethic visions?. Integrated with political
and economic issues using the Regulation Impact Analysis (RIA),
their contents might contribute to inform landscape
transformation policies. Landscape policies might be participated
also in the implementation phase, involving people in the fund
raising activities and delegating the realization of some
interventions to the spontaneous action of the interested
citizens and firms. More participation at political and at social
level might strengthen the sense of community reinforcing the
narratives that connect the human and natural elements of
landscape, integrating equity and sustainability in the
traditional meaning of wellbeing.
Keywords: European Landscape Convention, participation,
          crowdfunding, crowdsourcing
JEL:      R58
Date:     2013-08-29
URL:      http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:pra:mprapa:49864&r=soc
         4. Open Access, Social Norms & Publication Choice
    Matteo Migheli
    Giovanni B. Ramello
The aim of this paper is to shed light on scholarly
communication and its current trajectories by examining
academics? perception of Open Access, while also providing a
reference case for studying social norm change. In this respect,
the issue of publication choice and the role of Open Access
journals casts light on the changes affecting the scientific
community and its institutional arrangements for validating and
circulating new research. The empirical investigation conducted
also offers a useful vantage point for gauging the importance of
localised social norms in guiding and constraining behaviour
JEL:      K19
Date:     2013-06
URL:      http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:icr:wpicer:03-2013&r=soc
         5. Loved Ones Matter: Family Effects and Stock Market
   Participation
    Hellstr?m, J?rgen (Ume? School of Business and Economics)
    Zetterdahl, Emma (Department of Economics, Ume? School of
      Business and Economics)
    Hanes, Niklas (Department of Economics, Ume? School of
      Business and Economics)
In this paper new and detailed empirical evidence on the impact
of family on individuals? stock market participation decision is
provided. Since influence is likely to vary systematically over
different types of individuals the heterogeneous effect of social
interaction, in a setting including both community as well as
within-family effects, is further examined. The main results
indicate that individuals? likelihood for subsequent
participation increases (decreases) following positive (negative)
parental and partner stock market experiences. The effect of
social interaction is further found to be of relatively greater
importance for individuals with relatively lower levels of
financial literacy and for individuals with an on average higher
level of interpersonal trust. In terms of gender, both male and
female participation is positively affected by family influence,
while community effects mainly pertain to males.
Keywords: Family effects; Investor behavior; Peer effect; Social
          interaction; Social influence; Stock market
          participation
JEL:      D83
Date:     2013-09-19
URL:      http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hhs:umnees:0865&r=soc
         
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