Business Development (BD) activities have become prevalent in practice, and prior research has demonstrated their potential to enhance and complement the core competencies of enterprises. However, the limited and fragmented existing literature on Business Development highlights the need for a...

Interethnic tensions pose a significant barrier to the socioeconomic advancement of minority groups. This paper investigates the effectiveness of educational entertainment (or edutainment) in promoting interethnic harmony. We carried out a cluster randomized field experiment involving over 3,300...

Businesses have focused on using key opinion leaders (KOLs) to reach their target customers because their use of technology and social media is more and more increasing. KOLs not only interact directly with potential customers but also influence their needs through reviews or testimonials, which...

We study the impact of gender norms on the distribution of paid and unpaid labor between women and men in an intra-household bargaining model featuring endogenous social norms. In contrast to the previous literature, which assumes a homogeneous social norm, agents are connected via explicitly...

The impulse to think about process-induced social networks (in short: process networks) comes from the discipline of "Process Mining" (e.g. van der Aalst et al. 2005). The relevant literature refers to an "organizational view" or "organizational mining" in process mining. In essence, process...

This research examines the impact of articulated robots (ARs), the Environmental Policy Stringency Index (EPSI), and foreign direct investment (FDI) on industrial air pollution - measured by PM2.5 levels - across 12 developed countries from 1993 to 2023. Employing Social Network Analysis (SNA)...

In an increasingly interconnected global landscape, diaspora communities maintain complex transnational ties with their homelands, influencing local religious practices and institutions. This study examines how UK-Bangladesh diaspora connections shape religious identity formation and social...

Based on the network attention data of Douyin's fans, this article analyzes the spatial heterogeneity and driving factors of network attention to 5A-level tourist attractions in China using rank-size, kernel density, and nearest neighbor index. The results show that: (1) From the perspective of...

The Asian region has become the world's manufacturing hub due to its cost advantages, driving the development of container transportation. Recently, enterprises have favored Southeast Asia for its demographic dividend and geographical benefits. The relationships between ports are complex, and...

Social network platforms like Reddit are increasingly impacting real-world economics. Meme stocks are a recent phenomena where price movements are driven by retail investors organising themselves via social networks. To study the impact of social networks on meme stocks, the first step is to...

This article investigates the impact of relational social capital (RSC) and relational risk perception (RRP) on innovation openness (IO) and examines whether innovation openness serves as a precursor to organizations' innovation capability (IC).The authors conducted a survey with 189 Brazilian...

This paper investigates how kinship and professional networks shaped labour market outcomes in early modern Genoa. Using a newly constructed dataset of over 8,000 apprenticeship contracts (1450-1530), I examine the extent to which kinship ties with masters or guild members influenced both entry...