We examine the spread of a disease or behavior through a social network. In particular, we analyze how infection rates … first- and second order stochastic dominance relationships of the degree distribution in order to compare infection rates … across different social networks. …

The paper examines individuals’ abilities to identify the highly central people in their social networks, where … centrality is defined by diffusion centrality (Banerjee, Chandrasekhar, Duflo, and Jackson, 2013), which characterizes a nodeâ …€™s influence in spreading information. It first show that diffusion centrality nests standard centrality measures – degree …

Although an influence network is a crucial factor affecting diffusion processes, it is generally fixed or assumed to … follow some typical topologies in traditional diffusion research. The purpose of this study is to examine how innovation … diffusion is changed by different influence relationship structures existing among individuals. We introduce an extended version …

Network externalities spur the growth of networks and the adoption of network goods in two ways. First, they make it …—which, for small networks, can amount to a large relative increase. The difference between small, local, personal networks and … large, global, anonymous networks arises endogenously from our analysis. Fundamentally, the first type of networks is “tie …

in a society, the underlying proclivities of various types for adoption or infection, as well as how each type interacts … with its own type. In particular, we show that homophily can facilitate diffusion from a small initial seed of adopters. …

The novelty of our model is to combine models of collective action on networks with models of social learning. Agents …

social networks act as substitutes in the diffusion of knowledge. …Although prior empirical research has established an association between science and the widespread diffusion of … investigates whether the knowledge diffusion associated with science-based innovation stems from the norm of openness and …

on percolation dynamics. The model combines the concept of increasing returns to adoption with information diffusion … among consumers within social networks. The main contribution of the model is that it replicates the three stages of the … product lifecycle as an outcome of a single elementary process. The model also replicates the S-shaped diffusion curve and the …

of management accounting innovations diffusion. The diffusion process is examined through a social network of nodes and … ties. Ties represent communication channels through which the diffusion flows and nodes represent organizational actors who … facilitate or impede the diffusion process. Trust is operationalized through strong ties and structure is modeled with the …