Talent Goes Social: Online Corporate Networking and Business Performance
Abstract
1. Introduction
2. Theoretical Background and Hypothesis Development
3. Materials and Methods
3.1. Data
3.2. Empirical Method
4. Results
5. Discussion
6. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Variable | Observations | Mean | Std. Dev. | Min | Max | Revenue | Employees |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Revenue | 296 | 38.795 | 81.298 | 0.01 | 829.73 | ||
(Billion USD) | |||||||
Employees | 296 | 19,317.25 | 34,281.01 | 9 | 357,455 | 0.556 *** | |
(Number) | |||||||
Skills | 296 | 559,799.4 | 829,675.7 | 8138 | 7,126,588 | 0.408 *** | 0.408 *** |
(Number) |
(1) | (2) | |
---|---|---|
Log employees | 0.503 *** | −1.132 ** |
(0.0731) | (0.437) | |
Log skills | 0.161 * | 1.159 |
(0.0879) | (1.041) | |
Log employee2 | 0.104 *** | |
(0.0264) | ||
Log skills2 | −0.0494 | |
(0.0423) | ||
s == Consumer Goods | −0.836 ** | −0.636 * |
(0.328) | (0.338) | |
sector == Financial | −1.562 *** | −1.343 *** |
(0.361) | (0.383) | |
sector == Healthcare | −1.183 *** | −1.028 ** |
(0.425) | (0.434) | |
sector == Industrial Goods | −1.405 *** | −1.307 *** |
(0.365) | (0.379) | |
sector == Services | −1.422 *** | −1.240 *** |
(0.333) | (0.342) | |
sector == Technology | −1.810 *** | −1.757 *** |
(0.333) | (0.339) | |
sector == Utilities | −0.981 * | −0.829 |
(0.553) | (0.546) | |
Constant (Basic materials) | −2.676 *** | −1.462 |
(0.807) | (5.966) | |
Observations | 296 | 296 |
R2 | 0.394 | 0.427 |
Q(0.1) | Q(0.25) | Q(0.5) | Q(0.75) | Q(0.90) | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Revenue(billions)→ | 1.53 | 3.42 | 13 | 39 | 93 |
Log employees | 0.655 *** | 0.572 *** | 0.509 *** | 0.416 *** | 0.515 *** |
(0.090) | (0.053) | (0.067) | (0.096) | (0.126) | |
Log skills | 0.0933 | 0.258 *** | 0.216 * | 0.0469 | −0.153 |
(0.121) | (0.071) | (0.090) | (0.129) | (0.168) | |
N | 296 | 296 | 296 | 296 | 296 |
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Paniagua, J.; Peris-Ortiz, M.; Korzynski, P. Talent Goes Social: Online Corporate Networking and Business Performance. Sustainability 2020, 12, 8660. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12208660
Paniagua J, Peris-Ortiz M, Korzynski P. Talent Goes Social: Online Corporate Networking and Business Performance. Sustainability. 2020; 12(20):8660. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12208660
Chicago/Turabian StylePaniagua, Jordi, Marta Peris-Ortiz, and Pawel Korzynski. 2020. "Talent Goes Social: Online Corporate Networking and Business Performance" Sustainability 12, no. 20: 8660. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12208660
APA StylePaniagua, J., Peris-Ortiz, M., & Korzynski, P. (2020). Talent Goes Social: Online Corporate Networking and Business Performance. Sustainability, 12(20), 8660. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12208660