This article delves into the organisation of Ivorian cyberfraudsters, known as "brouteurs", who engage in romance scams and sextorsion, and it questions the various structures through which these fraudsters operate. The study's findings are based on data collected through semi-structured...

This study investigates the relationship between Absorptive Capacity (AC) and Knowledge Appropriation (KA), two significant domains in technology transfer, knowledge management, and innovation. While there is an inherent connection between these fields, there remains a gap in understanding their...

Knowledge brokers play a crucial role in open innovation. We use exponential random graph models and qualitative analysis of semi-structured interview data to contrast knowledge brokerage in three open innovation partnerships. Our analysis considers both tacit and explicit knowledge exchanges....

Collaboration among various organizations is important for the sustainable creation of new innovative drugs. Previously, drug discovery was dominated by large pharmaceutical companies; however, various new players are now actively involved in this endeavor. Nevertheless, the factors affecting...

Social media user engagement is a network effective in achieving a variety of goals linked to stakeholder networks (SN) and Word-of-Mouth Referral (WOMR). Achieving the results requires network effect theory (NET), which revolves around user engagement (UE) with an active participatory platform...

There has been a steady increase in gesture-based applications interacting with various electronic devices. Characters and numerals are written in the air using air-writing applications. Due to the lack of stroke information and a reference point on the writing plane in the 3D space, the...

We study a new model to study the effect of contract externalities that arise through shock transmission. We model a financial network where good firms enjoy direct and indirect benefits from linking with one another. Bad risks benefit from having a connection with a good firm, but they are a...

Peer influence on effort devoted to some activity is often studied using proxy variables when actual effort is unobserved. For instance, in education, academic effort is often proxied by GPA. We propose an alternative approach that circumvents this approximation. Our framework distinguishes...