Accelerating Platform User Growth: Pinduoduo's Multi‐Motivational Selfish Referral Strategy
ABSTRACT Referral strategies, whereby existing platform users recruit new users and thereby strengthen same‐side network effects, have long been central to digital platforms' efforts to grow the installed user base. Current referral strategies often require the referee to complete a transaction as a prerequisite for the referrer to receive the reward ...
Runyu Shi +2 more
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The influence of supportive leadership on hospitality employees' green innovative work behavior: the mediating role of innovative climate and psychological empowerment. [PDF]
Jameel A +5 more
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We Value Your Privacy: Behavior‐Based Pricing Under Endogenous Privacy
ABSTRACT We study a duopoly model of behavior‐based pricing in which consumers can either disclose or hide their data. We contrast two data policies. Under an open data policy, disclosed data is shared with all firms. In the unique equilibrium, all consumers disclose, and firms price discriminate, leading to welfare losses from inefficient poaching ...
Friederike Heiny +2 more
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Spatial distribution characteristics and tourism response of intangible cultural heritage in coastal areas of China. [PDF]
Xie L, Feng T, Jiang L, Tian J.
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Mapping the Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Firm Performance: A Bibliometric Review
ABSTRACT Artificial intelligence (AI) has become a significant driver of improvement and progress, with a profound impact on various areas of human activity. According to the existing body of scientific literature, AI possesses the potential to profoundly transform human society by automating complex processes, improving decision‐making capabilities ...
Claudiu Cicea +2 more
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Steering the digital transformation of service-oriented organizations by job crafting and innovative work behavior: employee-driven adaptability. [PDF]
Ye Q, Liu F, Yan Y, Ye S.
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Cyber(in)security and Interoperability in Digital Services
ABSTRACT This paper investigates the interplay between interoperability and the incentives to invest in cybersecurity in digital markets. We develop a two‐sided symmetric duopoly model in which cyberattacks create a congestion‐like externality, and interoperability amplifies hackers' incentives to target connected platforms.
Stefano Comino +2 more
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Use of interactional metadiscourse and identity construction in responses to negative online reviews of Chinese and British hotels. [PDF]
Huang J, Xiao W.
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Can the subaltern speak through WhatsApp? Unearthing the labour/knowledge of digital methodologies
Abstract Prompted by the challenges that Syrian refugees posed to a qualitative WhatsApp survey, this article dissects what researchers and research participants actually do when they ‘produce’ knowledge through digital methods such as WhatsApp. While many refugee participants saw the survey as an opportunity to express their views on social tensions ...
LEILA ULLRICH
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