Understanding the petition of citizens is the basis for improving urban governance and citizen satisfaction during urbanization. Given Beijing's rapid growth and large scale in urbanization, it represents an interesting case study to explore the petitions of citizens. In this paper, we analyze...

Text-mining technologies have substantially affected financial industries. As the data in every sector of finance have grown immensely, text mining has emerged as an important field of research in the domain of finance. Therefore, reviewing the recent literature on text-mining applications in...

Crowdsourcing beschreibt ein Ansatz, mit dem Organisationen systematisch nutzergenerierte Daten von grossen Netzwerken an Personen sammeln können. Während in den vergangenen Jahren bereits die technologischen Voraussetzungen für die Analyse solcher Daten geschaffen wurden, ist noch...

Today, public and private organizations have increasingly turned to management and leadership development, seeking to advance their respective organizations under the assumption that leadership development programmes (LDPs) enable participants to develop their leadership capacity. As such, this...

In most democracies, members of parliament are either elected over a party list or by a district. We use a discontinuity in the German parliamentary system to investigate the causal effect of a district-election on an MP's conformity with her party-line. A district-election does not affect roll...

Topic modeling methods such as Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) are powerful tools for analyzing massive amounts of textual data. They have been extensively used in information systems and management research to identify latent topics for data exploration and as a feature-engineering mechanism...