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{"title":"Friendship Network in the Classroom: Parents Bias and Peer Effects","authors":"F. Landini, N. Montinari, P. Pin, M. Piovesan","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2408498","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2408498","url":null,"abstract":"We interview both parents and their children enrolled in six primary schools in the district of Treviso (Italy). We study the structural differences between the children network of friends reported by children and the one elicited asking their parents. We find that the parents’ network has a bias: parents expect peer effects on school achievement to be stronger than what they really are. Thus, parents of low-performing students report their children to be friends of high-performing students. Our numerical simulations indicate that when this bias is combined with a bias on how some children target friends, then there is a multiplier effect on the expected school achievement.","PeriodicalId":202820,"journal":{"name":"Organizational Communication eJournal","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130175765","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Rational Inattention and Organizational Focus","authors":"Wouter Dessein, A. Galeotti, T. Santos","doi":"10.1257/AER.20140741","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1257/AER.20140741","url":null,"abstract":"This paper studies optimal communication flows in organizations. A production process can be coordinated ex ante, by letting agents stick to a prespecified plan of action. Alternatively, agents may adapt to task-specific shocks, in which case tasks must be coordinated ex post, using communication. When attention is scarce, an optimal organization coordinates only a few tasks ex post. Those tasks are higher performing, more adaptive to the environment, and influential. Hence, scarce attention requires setting priorities, not just local optimization. Our results provide microfoundations for a central idea in the management literature that firms should focus on a limited set of core competencies.","PeriodicalId":202820,"journal":{"name":"Organizational Communication eJournal","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130484297","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Social Networks, Information Acquisition, and Asset Prices","authors":"Bing Han, Liyan Yang","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.1787041","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1787041","url":null,"abstract":"We analyze a rational expectations equilibrium model to explore the implications of information networks for the financial market. When information is exogenous, social communication improves market efficiency. However, social communication crowds out information production due to traders' incentives to “free ride” on informed friends and on a more informative price system. Overall, social communication hurts market efficiency when information is endogenous. The network effects on the cost of capital, liquidity, trading volume, and welfare are also sensitive to whether information is endogenous. Our analysis highlights the importance of information acquisition in examining the implications of information networks for financial markets. This paper was accepted by Wei Xiong, finance.","PeriodicalId":202820,"journal":{"name":"Organizational Communication eJournal","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128601289","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Imagens de indivíduos afrodescendentes em propagandas: análise da presença de estigmas e estereótipos nas formas de representações sociais (Images of Afro-Descendent Individuals in Advertising: Analysis of the Presence of Stigmas and Stereotypes in the Forms of Social Representations)","authors":"C. Acevedo, Luiz Valério de Paula Trindade","doi":"10.18568/CMC.V7I18.185","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18568/CMC.V7I18.185","url":null,"abstract":"O objetivo do estudo consistiu em examinar de que forma os \u0000anúncios publicitários têm retratado os indivíduos afrodescendentes em termos de estereótipos e estigmas. Ele consistiu de análise qualitativa interpretativa em duas propagandas de automóveis tendo como arcabouço teórico a Teoria dos Estigmas e como referenciais metodológicos pesquisas anteriores semelhantes. Os resultados da análise revelaram que os anúncios publicitários contribuem para o reforço da ideia de invisibilidade social dos indivíduos afrodescendentes e também que ainda há predominância de caracterizações impregnadas de estigmatizações.","PeriodicalId":202820,"journal":{"name":"Organizational Communication eJournal","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121997170","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Strategic Auto-Communication in Identity — Image Interplay: The Dynamics of Mediatizing Organizational Identity","authors":"Anne-Sofie Kjaergaard, M. Morsing","doi":"10.1057/9780230248397_5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230248397_5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":202820,"journal":{"name":"Organizational Communication eJournal","volume":"9 11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116634385","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Representação Social de Indivíduos Afro-Descendentes em Propagandas: Proposta de um Modelo Explicativo do Fenômeno (Social Representation of Afro-Descendant Individuals in Advertising: Proposto of An Explanatory Model of the Phenomenon)","authors":"Luiz Valério de Paula Trindade, C. Acevedo","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3357485","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3357485","url":null,"abstract":"<b>Portuguese Abstract:</b> Observa-se que tanto na literatura nacional quanto estrangeira existe uma quantidade considerável de pesquisas que analisam os efeitos e consequências de práticas de marketing por parte das organizações sobre a sociedade de uma forma geral e, sobretudo em relação a minorias étnicas em particular. Contudo, nota-se também certa carência na literatura de modelos explicativos deste fenômeno. Desta forma, o presente trabalho tem como objetivo principal propor um modelo explicativo dos mecanismos e constructos envolvendo o fenômeno de sub-representação social de indivíduos afro-descendentes em anúncios publicitários. Para este efeito, a pesquisa recorreu ao arcabouço teórico compreendido pela Teoria dos Estigmas, a Teoria da Figuração Estabelecidos e Outsiders e à Teoria das Representações Sociais. Complementarmente, recorreu-se também aos conceitos de Ideologia do Branqueamento e Mito da Democracia Racial. Entre os principais resultados sinalizados pelo modelo compreende o fato de que o processo de resignificação e/ou interpretação por parte da sociedade dos retratos de afro-descendentes disseminados pela propaganda exerce a função de retroalimentação das crenças e valores vigentes, as quais, por conseguinte, acabam sendo reforçadas e continuamente disseminados por intermédio das representações sociais presentes nas propagandas.<br><br><b>English Abstract:</b> It can be noticed that both on Brazilian and international business academic literature there is a considerable amount of researches addressing the effects and consequences of marketing practices upon society in general and on ethnic minorities in particular. Nevertheless, it can also be noticed that there is a lack of explanatory models of this phenomenon. Therefore, the present study aims to propose an explanatory model of the mechanisms and constructs regarding the phenomenon of under-representation of afro-descendant individuals on pieces of advertisements. For this purpose the study has made use of the theoretical framework comprised of Theory of Stigma, Theory of Established and Outsiders and Social Representation Theory. Additionally, it has also been used the concepts of Whitening Ideology and Myth of Racial Democracy. Among the main results revealed by the model, it can be noticed the fact that the attribution meaning process by society regarding afro-descendant individuals portrayals on ads plays the role of sustaining their dominant values and beliefs. Consequently, those values and beliefs become reinforced and continuously spread by social representations conveyed by advertisements.","PeriodicalId":202820,"journal":{"name":"Organizational Communication eJournal","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115778340","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Draft 2a: Collaboration and Conflict in Three Workplace Teams' Projects","authors":"Tom Cockburn, Peter A. C. Smith, Gordon A. Cockburn","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3385491","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3385491","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter extends previous research published in 2016 which looked into the embedding contexts of networks of small firms, principally in the EU , and the means by which collaboration between small to medium enterprises (SMEs) was supported inside national and regional clustering structures and incubators initiated in collaboration with university researchers and government agencies. The current chapter drills down further to explore the processes at the level of individual firms analysing and describing how group and individual conflict and/or collaboration was generated or sustained within teams in three different case organizations. In other words, the chapter looks at micro level details of conflict and collaboration as well as the observed socio-emotional dynamics observed. The three organizations were involved with executive education programs and the authors were able to access reflective diaries for 2004 to 2012 enabling the authors to triangulate notes taken with interview data and observations used for this chapter.<br>","PeriodicalId":202820,"journal":{"name":"Organizational Communication eJournal","volume":"131 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122076184","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}