We study how to optimally structure such consumer communities when the objective is to maximize the total or average amount of effort expended. …Read More
Social Network Design for Inducing Effort
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Employment before Entrepreneurship and Gender Inequality: Evidence from Venture Capital Financing
Venture capital is the key to fostering and supporting innovation. However, there is huge gender bias in venture financing market. In 2017, only 2.2% of total venture funding went to female-founded firms in US, despite the fact that female entrepreneurs own 38% of total business in the country.…Read More
Organizational Change and the Dynamics of Innovation: Formal R&D Structure and Intrafirm Inventor Networks
Prior research has argued and shown that firms with centralized R&D produce broader innovations relative to decentralized firms, but the organizational mechanisms underlying this relationship are underexplored. This gap limits our understanding of whether and how formal R&D structure can be used as a lever to influence research outcomes.…Read More
For Startups, Adaptability and Mentor Network Diversity can be Pivotal: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment on a MOOC Platform
Entrepreneurs leading digital ventures are often advised to be adaptable. However, research on how to pursue adaptable strategies and whether such strategies improve short- or long-term digital venture outcomes is sparse.…Read More
Multiplex Network Diffusion
The networks literature examining the diffusion of complex innovations by social contagion has focused on the benefits of “multiplex” (or “wide”) ties in these processes. Multiplex ties span different types of networks to create inter-connectivity across subgraphs within a community. …Read More
Optimal Network Design for Inducing Effort
Many companies create and manage communities where consumers observe and exchange information about the effort expended by other consumers. Such communities are especially popular in the areas of fitness, education, dieting, and financial savings. …Read More
Modeling the Diffusion of Complex Innovations as a Process of Opinion Formation through Social Networks
Complex innovations – ideas, practices, and technologies that hold uncertain benefits for potential adopters — often vary in their ability to diffuse in different communities over time. To explain why, I develop a model of innovation adoption in which agents engage in naïve (DeGroot) learning about the value of an innovation within their social networks.…Read More
Women, Rails and Telegraphs: An Empirical Study of Information Diffusion and Collective Action
How do social interactions shape collective action, and how are they mediated by the availability of networked information technologies? To answer these questions, we study the Temperance Crusade, one of the earliest instances of organized political mobilization by women in the U.S. …Read More
Network Overlap and Content Sharing on Social Media Platforms
We study the impact of network overlap — the overlap in network connections between two users — on content sharing in directed social media platforms. We propose a hazards model that flexibly captures the impact of three different measures of network overlap (i.e., common followees, common followers and common mutual followers) on content sharing.…Read More
Social Capital and Innovation: Evidence from Connected Holdings
In this project, I want to study the financial intermediary’s impact on firm’s innovation. More specific, I want to study whether a firm can innovate more if its shares are heavily held by connected mutual funds. Here I define a mutual fund as connected if the mutual fund managers went to the same school as the top officers of the firm.…Read More
Preferences, Structure and Influence: The Engineering of Consent
I present a decision process framework that informs the design and implementation of stakeholder influence strategy. This process combines insights from agent-based dynamic utility and dynamic network processes. Stakeholders strategically seek an outcome as close as possible to their preferred point but also wish to be on the winning side and not to pursue positions divergent from stakeholders with whom they have strong affective ties.…Read More
Evolving Communication Patterns In Response to an Acquisition Event
This study combines qualitative and quantitative methods, with particular emphasis on network data of worker behavior, to analyze changes in worker communication patterns during the first three years of a post-acquisition integration. The findings suggest that new communication routines develop slowly and are not entirely enduring even when a transformative event, such as an acquisition, occurs.…Read More