We study peer influence in an online social network on a platform where consumers purchase music albums. They can … consumers' exploration of new music that exhibits unfamiliar attributes (e.g. artist, genre, or instrumentation). Our empirical …-peer similarities in their preference for certain album attributes. This affects music exploration because it determines which peer …

Newly released music by a certain artist is never assessed in isolation by the audiences, who tend to compare it with … the previous musical catalogue of the corresponding artist. Through a repeated interaction with the artist's music, the … incremental versus radical innovation. We develop a theory rooted in classical behavioral economics of reference-building, and …

technology and innovation have created a plethora of new opportunities for small and medium-sized enterprises. This paper …