| 来源类型 | Discussion paper |
| 规范类型 | 论文 |
| 来源ID | DP8040 |
| DP8040 Measuring the Impact Factor of Agents within an Organization Using Communication Patterns | |
| Andrea Prat; Ignacio Palacios-Huerta | |
| 发表日期 | 2010-10-23 |
| 出版年 | 2010 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Organizational economics predicts that communication patterns within an organization should reflect the relative value of their members to the organization. We propose to measure the impact factor of an agent by applying the Invariant Method?also known as Google?s PageRank algorithm?to electronic communication data. To explore the validity of this measure, we analyze email exchanges among the top executives of a large retail company. We construct their individual impact factors based only on email patterns and we compare them to standard economic measures of organizational importance. We find that: (i) The impact-factor ranking of executives mirrors perfectly their hierarchical ranking; (ii) Impact factor variability is significantly correlated with salary differences; (iii) Subsequent promotions (dismissals) affect executives with unusually high (low) impact factors. We conclude that simple communication-based impact factors may be a useful tool to measure the relative importance of agents in organizations. |
| 主题 | Industrial Organization |
| 关键词 | Impact factor Organizational economics Pagerank |
| URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp8040 |
| 来源智库 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom) |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/536891 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Andrea Prat,Ignacio Palacios-Huerta. DP8040 Measuring the Impact Factor of Agents within an Organization Using Communication Patterns. 2010. |
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