Connected Cities Are Economically Healthy Cities

Connected Cities Are Economically Healthy Cities

Publisher: 
Harvard Business School Press
Date published: 
2015
Record type: 
Journal article
Journal Title: 
Harvard Business Review
Source: 
Harvard Business Review, Vol. 93, No. 4, April 2015, pp. 22-24
Subject: 
UNITED STATES
MARKET RESEARCH
URBAN AREAS
CONSUMER BEHAVIOR
INTERNET ACCESS
ECONOMIC IMPACT
JOB CREATION
Abstract: 

Could increasing your online connections to friends and business contacts benefit your entire city? Maybe. Higher LinkedIn connectedness in a metropolitan area--the number of people each user is connected to, on average--is associated with faster job growth there. From 2010 to 2014, in the wake of the Great Recession, the U.S. metro areas with the highest average number of connections per user had more than twice the job growth of the least-connected areas, according to a study sponsored by LinkedIn.

Language: 
English
Country focus: 
United States
Catagory URL: 
http://www.HBR.org
Subject profile : 
Management / Administration / HRM / Training / Career Development

CITATION: . Connected Cities Are Economically Healthy Cities . : Harvard Business School Press , 2015. Harvard Business Review, Vol. 93, No. 4, April 2015, pp. 22-24 - Available at: https://library.au.int/connected-cities-are-economically-healthy-cities