The emergence of Academic Social Networking Sites (ASNS) has changed the way of scholarly communication. Each of these ASNS brings unique feature for the researchers. The authors study the awareness and use pattern of full-time research scholars of NITK through a survey-based study. The present...

Online wellness and fitness platforms are increasingly utilizing social support in their wellness programs to motivate healthy activities and improve user engagement. However, many wellness programs suffer from high churn rates that discount their expected efficacy. This introduces negative...

Post-World War II, there was massive internal migration from rural to urban areas in Japan. The location of Sumo stables was concentrated in Tokyo. Hence, supply of Sumo wrestlers from rural areas to Tokyo was considered as migration. Using a panel dataset covering forty years, specifically...

We conduct a randomized controlled trial in 180 villages in Uttar Pradesh, India, to promote the adoption of a saving commitment product new to our study population. A random set of participants are targeted by our promotional campaign. We test whether the diffusion of the product among...

Think tanks' role as development policy entrepreneurs and lobbyists is well recognised. Like NGOs, think tanks have also acted as classical intellectual labour cofounded by local and international agencies. This research examines organisational network of Indonesian think tanks. This study aims...

Opinion dynamics play an important role in the consensus reaching process (CRP) when tackling social network group decision making (SNGDM) problems. Opinion reliability can be regarded as an important characteristic of expert to indicate the reliability of experts’ opinions in social trust...

This study aims to analyze the role of inter-organizational relationship in boosting innovative performance of ICT enterprises through knowledge sharing supported by social capital. Gaining sustenance from Dynamic Capability View (DCV), the study investigates perceived enterprises’ innovation...

This research investigates the creation of online social capital among members of the rural maritime community. The major goal of this study is to determine how much the maritime community uses online networking and how social capital grows within the community via the internet. In-depth...

The advancement of conversational AI techniques is driving the rise of chatbot applications in various fields. Pioneering business studies have examined the effects of functional chatbots for specific business tasks, such as customer service. This study extends the business literature by...

This paper assesses the results of an experiment designed to identify discrimination in users' following behavior on Twitter. Specifically, we created fictitious bot accounts that resembled humans and claimed to be PhD students in economics. The accounts differed in three characteristics: gender...