High levels of financial exclusion in developing countries have left millions of citizens with inadequate access to financial services. While various solutions and strategies have been developed to cope with this challenge, in the current research, we explore a popular model of cash exchange...

This study puts forward a variable clique overlap model for identifying information communities, or potentially overlapping subgroups of network actors among whom reinforced independent links ensure efficient communication. We posit that the intensity of communication between individuals in...

Retailers’ efforts to monetize consumer location data are still dominated by naïve protocols such as geo-fencing – customizing marketing interactions based solely on the current location of all app users. While past research has noted the inefficiency of such approaches due to ignoring the...

The success of any User-Generated Content (UGC) website critically depends on the participation and effort of its content contributors. In this paper, we study the contributor motivation problem from a firm's perspective. Drawing on the behavioral economics literature, we develop a unified...