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Accelerating Platform User Growth: Pinduoduo's Multi‐Motivational Selfish Referral Strategy

Information Systems Journal, EarlyView.
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, Panos Constantinides, Federico Iannacci   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

When dirty work meets social identity: decoding career avoidance intentions of Chinese hospitality students. [PDF]

Front Psychol
Hu X, Liang B, Chen Z, Xie S, Li Z.
europepmc   +1 more source

Multidimensional Militarisation, Evidence From Mexico's War on Drugs

International Social Science Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article documents different dimensions of militarisation observed in Mexico since the start of the war on drugs. It argues that militarisation is a multidirectional phenomenon that is characterised by rationales that justify the use of illegal means to address complex issues, promising expediency and efficiency but rarely delivering on it.
Agustin Hernandez Berea
wiley   +1 more source

Few-shot hotel industry site selection prediction method based on meta learning algorithms and transportation accessibility. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Li N, Wu H.
europepmc   +1 more source

‘Grabbing Our Land Deprives Us of Our Future’: Struggles Against State‐Led Land Dispossession, Demands for Justice and Citizenship in Dakar's Urban Outskirts

Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How do people at the outskirts of Dakar struggle against urban land grabs and state‐led dispossession for urban development? How do they express the injustices they face and their demands for justice? What are they claiming, and what success have they had?
Philippe Lavigne Delville
wiley   +1 more source

The integrated model for management of hotel enterprise

Journal of Geography and Environmental Management, 2016
G. Abisheva, A. Zhumagulova
openaire   +1 more source

Understanding the Impact of Algorithmic Discrimination on Unethical Consumer Behavior. [PDF]

Behav Sci (Basel)
Sun B, Pei S, Wang Q, Meng X.
europepmc   +1 more source

Beyond the Sober State: The Work of Drunkenness in British Bureaucracy

Sociology Lens, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article reports the drinking stories of British civil service clerical workers based at a large civil service office complex located in Newcastle upon Tyne between 1968 and 1993. It uses these stories to develop an account of state formation that takes seriously the place of joy, solidarity, contention, and exhaustion within public sector
Michael Vine
wiley   +1 more source

A blockchain-empowered AutoML reputation system for anonymous customer service in SMEs. [PDF]

Front Artif Intell
Annamalai S, Ravi L.
europepmc   +1 more source

Privatization Under Political Ties

The Journal of Industrial Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT I study a product differentiation model with endogenous entry where a politically connected public firm competes with a private one. Consumers are heterogeneous in their willingness to pay. I argue that—because of political ties—the public firm may mimic the preferences of the consumer with the median willingness to pay.
Matteo Broso
wiley   +1 more source