Firms are increasingly seeking to harness the potential of social networks for marketing purposes. Therefore, marketers are interested in understanding the antecedents and consequences of relationship formation within networks and in predicting interactivity among users. The authors develop an...

In this research, we investigate the prevalence and possible reasons underlying the so-called extreme distribution of reviews in which reviews are heavily skewed to the positive end of the rating scale, with a few reviews in the mid-range and some reviews at the negative end of the scale....

We study Austrian job reallocation in the period of 1978 to 1998, using a large administrative dataset where we correct for "spurious" entries and exits of firms. We find that on average 9 out of 100 randomly selected jobs were created within the last year, and that about 9 out of randomly...