The rising popularity of webtoons, a popular type of digital content, led to emergence of an interesting phenomenon known as transcreation. Transcreation indicates fans' twofold activity of translating and recreating webtoons into a new language, while maintaining originality of the content....

The uncanny valley model explains the relationship between the resemblance that robots have to humans and attitudes towards these humanoid robots. This model is an influential theory in human-robot interaction and helps us understand individuals' attitudes towards humanoids. Despite its...

The rising popularity of webtoons, a popular type of digital content, led to emergence of an interesting phenomenon known as transcreation. Transcreation indicates fans' twofold activity of translating and recreating webtoons into a new language, while maintaining originality of the content....

Artificial intelligence (AI) startups are utilizing artificial intelligence technology to produce novel solutions across a multitude of sectors, becoming key players in the AI business ecosystem, signifying AI business networks consisting of technology, business applications, and various...

Digitalization is widely recognized as a pivotal force influencing the evolution of the business world and societies at large (Cortellazzo et al., 2019). Media platforms have entered foreign markets to grab new opportunities, especially for geographic and product expansion in the global market....

While Covid-19 has accelerated the digital transformation, increasing labour costs and 52-hour workweek rules are replacing human labor with self-service technologies (SSTs). Self-service technology is increasingly implemented and is expected to become a usual phenomenon in restaurant settings....

The uncanny valley model explains the relationship between the resemblance that robots have to humans and attitudes towards these humanoid robots. This model is an influential theory in human-robot interaction and helps us understand individuals' attitudes towards humanoids. Despite its...

In counties where slavery had been more prevalent, African Americans accumulated human capital more slowly after the Civil War. However, the shadow of slavery emerged after Reconstruction. This study suggests a mechanism by which the historical prevalence of slavery led to selective application...

We study the influence of agricultural labor intensity on individualism across U.S. counties. To measure historical labor intensity in agriculture we combine data on crop-specific labor requirements and county-specific crop mix around 1900. To address endogeneity we exploit climate-induced...

In this paper, we study the performance of hated stocks, those stocks with the average analyst recommendation level of hold or worse. We show that from the beginning of 2009 to the end of 2014, this group of hated stocks in S&P 500 performs better than the other stocks in S&P 500. When we extend...