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The bandwagon effect of collaborative filtering technology
CHI '08 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2008Advancements in collaborative filtering and related technologies have resulted in the ubiquitous presence of other users' opinions and actions on a variety of Websites and portals, ranging from news to music to photo sites. But, do these cues about others' behaviors guide our own decisions online?
S. Shyam Sundar +2 more
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Bandwagon Effect in Facebook Discussion Groups
Proceedings of the ASE BigData & SocialInformatics 2015, 2015A core issue in online social networks is identifying content that will result in greater traffic and interaction. In this paper we use a large Facebook dataset and the concepts of bandwagon effect and information cascade from the field of communications to predict a post's life cycle without analyzing its content.
Keith C. Wang +3 more
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Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery, 2002
Although surgery has a glorious past that includes numerous seminal contributions to the medical sciences, at times progress has been and continues to be impeded by the bandwagon effect. Although many factors contribute to this phenomenon, the major obstacle that is sometimes in the pathway to truth is ourselves. The rigor of our clinical investigation
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Although surgery has a glorious past that includes numerous seminal contributions to the medical sciences, at times progress has been and continues to be impeded by the bandwagon effect. Although many factors contribute to this phenomenon, the major obstacle that is sometimes in the pathway to truth is ourselves. The rigor of our clinical investigation
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The Emergence of Bandwagon Effects: A Theory
The Sociological Quarterly, 1987Previous explanations of bandwagons from election polls have exclusively emphasized conformity causes. We propose, in addition, “indirect' causes, in which election predictions first affect key actors, influencing their decisions concerning financial support, volunteer work, or endorsements.
Richard L. Henshel, William Johnston
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The Antidote, 1996
Posits that divisionalization in companies, as we know it today, followed on from Du Pont in the 1920s, and goes on to show this in greater detail. Indicates that something eventful happened in the 1980s — management became a big and extremely lucrative business.
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Posits that divisionalization in companies, as we know it today, followed on from Du Pont in the 1920s, and goes on to show this in greater detail. Indicates that something eventful happened in the 1980s — management became a big and extremely lucrative business.
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Bandwagon Effects and Two-Party Majority Voting
Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 1998zbMATH Open Web Interface contents unavailable due to conflicting licenses.
Hong, CS, Konrad, KA
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The Enthusiastic Few, Peer Effects and Entrapping Bandwagons
2007We study an economic setting where, due to payoff externalities such as peer effects or network externalities, the enthusiasm of the few entraps others to join an activity or club. Our experimental results largely support the model and its theoretical prediction of entrapment. Subjects choose to join 81% of the time. Overall 89% of the observations are
Yves Breitmoser +2 more
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Bandwagon and leapfrog effects in Internet implementation
International Journal of Hospitality Management, 2014Abstract This paper underscores the critical relationship between innovation adoption and innovation implementation, particularly how two contrasting effects—bandwagon and leapfrog—relate to organizational Internet diffusion. Bandwagon effects, adopting a technology due to fad and fashion, accelerate adoption but often lead to ineffective technology ...
Noor Hazarina Hashim +3 more
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Bandwagon Effect and Authority Bias
2018James was a 56-year-old man who arrived to the ER after being thrown from his motorcycle. He was taken to a trauma center and was unable to move his legs. A CT scan showed a significant spinal cord injury. The neurosurgeon started him on high-dose, intravenous methylprednisolone, a steroid commonly used in neurological diseases to decrease inflammation,
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Bandwagon effect: Special dividend payments
International Review of Economics & Finance, 2019Abstract The objective of this study is to determine whether there is a bandwagon effect of special dividends in United States industries. Specifically, we investigate whether the predictions of the information-signalling hypothesis or the agency theory account for the special dividend behaviour at the industry-level.
May Hu, Mataiasi Tuilautala, Yuni Kang
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