SSRN Information Systems: Behavioral & Social Methods eJournal

1.

Six Provocations for Big Data

A Decade in Internet Time: Symposium on the Dynamics of the Internet and Society, September 2011

Number of pages: 17 Posted: 13 Sep 2011 Last Revised: 30 Oct 2012

Working Paper Series

danah boyd and Kate Crawford

Data & Society Research Institute and Microsoft Research

Downloads 40,178

2.

The Nature of Man

Michael C. Jensen, FOUNDATIONS OF ORGANIZATIONAL STRATEGY, Harvard University Press, 1998, Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 4-19, Summer 1994

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 24 Nov 1997 Last Revised: 18 May 2013

Accepted Paper Series

Michael C. Jensen and William H. Meckling

SSRN and Simon School, University of Rochester (Deceased)

Downloads 32,115

3.

Social Networks that Matter: Twitter Under the Microscope

Number of pages: 9 Posted: 12 Dec 2008

Working Paper Series

Bernardo A. Huberman, Daniel M. Romero and Fang Wu

Stanford University, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Bristol and HP Labs

Downloads 16,033

4.

Social Privacy in Networked Publics: Teens’ Attitudes, Practices, and Strategies

A Decade in Internet Time: Symposium on the Dynamics of the Internet and Society, September 2011

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 10 Sep 2011 Last Revised: 03 Jan 2013

Accepted Paper Series

danah boyd and Alice E. Marwick

Data & Society Research Institute and Data & Society Research Institute

Downloads 11,323

5.

Understanding the Effects of Violent Video Games on Violent Crime

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 09 Apr 2011 Last Revised: 05 Feb 2013

Working Paper Series

Scott Cunningham, Benjamin Engelstätter and Michael R. Ward

Baylor University, University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt and University of Texas at Arlington - College of Business Administration - Department of Economics

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 11,284

6.

Opening Closed Regimes: What Was the Role of Social Media During the Arab Spring?

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 17 Apr 2015 Last Revised: 05 Sep 2015

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Philip N. Howard, Aiden Duffy, Deen Freelon, Muzammil M. Hussain, Will Mari and Marwa Maziad

University of Washington - Department of Communication, University of Washington, American University, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, University of Washington and University of Washington - College of Arts and Sciences

Downloads 10,608

7.

Consumer Acceptance and Use of Information Technology: Extending the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology

MIS Quarterly, Vol. 36, No. 1, pp. 157-178, 2012

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 10 Feb 2012

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Viswanath Venkatesh, James Y.L. Thong and Xin Xu

University of Arkansas - Department of Information Systems, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology and Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Downloads 10,169

8.

Effects of Word-of-Mouth versus Traditional Marketing: Findings from an Internet Social Networking Site

Robert H. Smith School Research Paper No. RHS 06-065

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 08 May 2008 Last Revised: 19 Jun 2014

Working Paper Series

Michael Trusov, Randolph E. Bucklin and Koen H. Pauwels

University of Maryland - Robert H. Smith School of Business, UCLA Anderson School of Management and Ozyegin University

Downloads 10,037

9.

Inferring App Demand from Publicly Available Data

MIS Quarterly, Forthcoming

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 09 Sep 2011 Last Revised: 19 Jun 2014

Working Paper Series

Rajiv Garg and Rahul Telang

University of Texas at Austin - Department of Information, Risk and Operations Management and Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management

Downloads 9,314

10.

What Makes Online Content Viral?

Number of pages: 17 Posted: 27 Dec 2009 Last Revised: 30 Aug 2012

Working Paper Series

Jonah A. Berger and Katherine L. Milkman

University of Pennsylvania - Marketing Department and University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School

Downloads 8,771

11.

Contracts for Clouds: Comparison and Analysis of the Terms and Conditions of Cloud Computing Services

Queen Mary School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 63/2010

Number of pages: 47 Posted: 02 Sep 2010

Working Paper Series

Simon Bradshaw, Christopher Millard and Ian Walden

University of London - Centre for Commercial Law Studies (CCLS), Queen Mary University of London, School of Law - Centre for Commercial Law Studies and Queen Mary University of London, School of Law

Downloads 8,423

12.

Facebook Tracks and Traces Everyone: Like This!

Tilburg Law School Legal Studies Research Paper Series No. 03/2011

Number of pages: 10 Posted: 01 Dec 2010 Last Revised: 11 Mar 2014

Working Paper Series

Arnold Roosendaal

TNO Information and Communication Technology in Delft

Downloads 8,245

13.

Government Surveillance and Internet Search Behavior

Number of pages: 53 Posted: 23 Mar 2014 Last Revised: 15 Mar 2017

Working Paper Series

Alex Marthews and Catherine E. Tucker

Digital Fourth and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Management Science (MS)

Downloads 7,865

14.

Information, Technology and Information Worker Productivity

Information Systems Research, Forthcoming

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 05 Nov 2006 Last Revised: 31 Aug 2014

Accepted Paper Series

Sinan Aral, Erik Brynjolfsson and Marshall W. Van Alstyne

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management and Boston University – Questrom School of Business

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 7,239

15.

What Is eSports and Why Do People Watch It?

Hamari, J., & Sjöblom, M. (2017). What is eSports and why do people watch it? Internet research, 27(2). DOI: 10.1108/IntR-04-2016-0085, Forthcoming,

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 06 Nov 2015 Last Revised: 19 Aug 2016

Accepted Paper Series

Juho Hamari and Max Sjöblom

School of Information Science, University of Tampere and Game Research Lab, School of Information Science, Tampere University

Downloads 6,475

16.

Markets are Efficient if and Only if P = NP

Algorithmic Finance, Vol. 1, No. 1, 2011, NYU Poly Research Paper

Number of pages: 12 Posted: 01 Mar 2011

Accepted Paper Series

Philip Maymin

University of Bridgeport - School of Business

Downloads 5,860

17.

Big Data Ethics

Wake Forest Law Review, 2014

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 25 Jan 2014 Last Revised: 03 Jun 2014

Accepted Paper Series

Neil M. Richards and Jonathan H. King

Washington University in St. Louis - School of Law and Washington University in St. Louis - School of Law

Downloads 5,835

18.

Youth and Digital Media: From Credibility to Information Quality

Berkman Center Research Publication No. 2012-1

Number of pages: 150 Posted: 20 Feb 2012

Working Paper Series

Urs Gasser, Sandra Cortesi, Momin M. Malik and Ashley Lee

Harvard University - Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University - Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, Carnegie Mellon University - School of Computer Science and Harvard University - Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society

Downloads 5,587

19.

Cloud Computing: The Business Perspective

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 03 Jun 2009 Last Revised: 26 Jul 2014

Working Paper Series

Sean R. Marston, Zhi Li, Subhajyoti Bandyopadhyay, Anand Ghalsasi and Juheng Zhang

University of Florida - Warrington College of Business Administration, Babson College, University of Florida - Warrington College of Business Administration, Lirik Inc. and University of Florida

Downloads 4,771

20.

Advocacy 2.0: An Analysis of How Advocacy Groups in the United States Perceive and Use Social Media as Tools for Facilitating Civic Engagement and Collective Action

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 08 Nov 2011 Last Revised: 19 Aug 2014

Working Paper Series

Jonathan A. Obar, Paul Zube and Cliff Lampe

York University, affiliation not provided to SSRN and University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - School of Information

Downloads 4,265

21.

Which Came First, it or Productivity? Virtuous Cycle of Investment and Use in Enterprise Systems

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 05 Nov 2006

Working Paper Series

Sinan Aral, Erik Brynjolfsson and D. J. Wu

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management and Georgia Institute of Technology - Ernest Scheller Jr. College of Business

Downloads 3,969

22.

Money from Music: Survey Evidence on Musicians’ Revenue and Lessons About Copyright Incentives

55 Arizona Law Review 301 (2013), Northwestern Law & Econ Research Paper No. 13-01

Number of pages: 71 Posted: 10 Jan 2013 Last Revised: 01 Jul 2015

Accepted Paper Series

Peter C. DiCola

Northwestern University School of Law

Downloads 3,653

23.

Echo Chambers on Facebook

Number of pages: 15 Posted: 15 Jun 2016

Working Paper Series

Walter Quattrociocchi, Antonio Scala and Cass R. Sunstein

IMT Lucca, CNR - Intitute for Complex Systems and Harvard Law School

Downloads 3,592

24.

An Experiment in Hiring Discrimination Via Online Social Networks

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 02 Apr 2012 Last Revised: 12 Mar 2016

Working Paper Series

Alessandro Acquisti and Christina M. Fong

Carnegie Mellon University - Heinz College and Carnegie Mellon University - Department of Social and Decision Sciences

Downloads 3,498

25.

The Role of Marketing in Social Media: How Online Consumer Reviews Evolve

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 17 Nov 2010 Last Revised: 19 Jun 2014

Working Paper Series

Yubo Chen, Scott Fay and Qi Wang

Tsinghua University - School of Economics & Management, Syracuse University and Binghamton University

Downloads 3,492

26.

Games on Networks

Handbook of Game Theory, Vol. 4, Peyton Young and Shmuel Zamir, eds., Elsevier Science, July 2014

Number of pages: 89 Posted: 26 Aug 2012 Last Revised: 18 Jul 2014

Accepted Paper Series

Matthew O. Jackson and Yves Zenou

Stanford University - Department of Economics and Stockholm University

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 3,481

27.

Why Do People Use Social Media? Empirical Findings and a New Theoretical Framework for Social Media Goal Pursuit

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 23 Jan 2012

Working Paper Series

Donna L. Hoffman and Thomas P Novak

George Washington University School of Business and George Washington University School of Business

Downloads 3,461

28.

From TV to Twitter: How Ambient News Became Ambient Journalism

Media/Culture Journal, Vol. 13, No. 2, May 2010

Number of pages: 6 Posted: 31 Dec 2010

Accepted Paper Series

Alfred Hermida

University of British Columbia - School of Journalism

Downloads 3,420

29.

Humblebragging: A Distinct – and Ineffective – Self-Presentation Strategy

Harvard Business School Marketing Unit Working Paper No. 15-080, Harvard Business School NOM Unit Working Paper No. 15-080

Number of pages: 77 Posted: 28 Apr 2017 Last Revised: 30 Aug 2017

Working Paper Series

Ovul Sezer, Francesca Gino and Michael I. Norton

Harvard University, Harvard Business School, Students, Harvard Business School and Harvard Business School - Marketing Unit

Downloads 3,392

30.

Cyber-Attacks and the Use of Force: Back to the Future of Article 2(4)

Yale Journal of International Law, Vol. 36, 2011

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 11 Sep 2010 Last Revised: 10 Aug 2014

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Matthew C. Waxman

Columbia Law School

Downloads 3,386

31.

Virtual Teams: A Literature Review

Australian Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences, Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 2653-2669, 2009

Number of pages: 17 Posted: 07 Nov 2009

Accepted Paper Series

Nader Ale Ebrahim, Shamsuddin Ahmed and Zahari Taha

Centre for Research Services, Institute of Management and Research Services (IPPP), University of Malaya (UM)University of Malaya (UM) - Department of Engineering Design and Manufacture, University of Malaya (UM) and University of Malaya (UM)

Downloads 3,349

32.

Research Paper on Emotional Intelligence and Work Life Balance of Employees in the Information Technology Industry

Number of pages: 9 Posted: 14 Feb 2014

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Sachin Gupta

Independent

Downloads 3,328

33.

Conducting Behavioral Research on Amazon's Mechanical Turk

Behavior Research Methods, Forthcoming

Number of pages: 21 Posted: 13 Oct 2010 Last Revised: 19 Jun 2014

Accepted Paper Series

Winter Mason and Siddharth Suri

Facebook and Yahoo! Research Labs

Downloads 3,326

34.

Governing Algorithms: A Provocation Piece

Number of pages: 12 Posted: 04 Apr 2013 Last Revised: 08 Apr 2013

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Solon Barocas, Sophie Hood and Malte Ziewitz

Cornell University, New York University (NYU) and Cornell University

Downloads 3,259

35.

The Future of Reputation: Gossip, Rumor, and Privacy on the Internet

THE FUTURE OF REPUTATION: GOSSIP, RUMOR, AND PRIVACY ON THE INTERNET, Daniel J. Solove, Yale University Press, October 2007

Number of pages: 17 Posted: 06 Oct 2007 Last Revised: 19 Jan 2017

Accepted Paper Series

Daniel J. Solove

George Washington University Law School

Downloads 3,254

36.

Self-Tracking Modes: Reflexive Self-Monitoring and Data Practices

Number of pages: 19 Posted: 21 Aug 2014

Working Paper Series

Deborah Lupton

University of Canberra

Downloads 3,251

37.

The PII Problem: Privacy and a New Concept of Personally Identifiable Information

New York University Law Review, Vol. 86, p. 1814, 2011, UC Berkeley Public Law Research Paper No. 1909366, GWU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 584, GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 584

Number of pages: 81 Posted: 15 Aug 2011 Last Revised: 11 Mar 2014

Accepted Paper Series

Paul M. Schwartz and Daniel J. Solove

University of California, Berkeley - School of Law and George Washington University Law School

Downloads 3,217

38.

Micro-Participation: The Role of Microblogging in Planning

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 13 Feb 2011

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Jennifer S. Evans-Cowley and Greg Phillip Griffin

Ohio State University (OSU) and Texas A&M Transportation Institute

Downloads 3,198

39.

Reading this May Harm Your Computer: The Psychology of Malware Warnings

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 05 Jan 2014 Last Revised: 03 Oct 2014

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David Modic and Ross J. Anderson

University of Exeter and Cambridge University Computer Laboratory

Downloads 3,153

40.

On the Interface Between Management Accounting and Modern Information Technology - A Literature Review and Some Empirical Evidence

Number of pages: 55 Posted: 08 May 2007

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Markus Granlund

Turku School of Economics

Downloads 3,097

41.

Tweets and Trades: The Information Content of Stock Microblogs

Number of pages: 89 Posted: 06 Nov 2010 Last Revised: 10 Aug 2014

Working Paper Series

Timm O. Sprenger and Isabell M. Welpe

Technische Universität München (TUM) - School of Management and Technische Universität München (TUM) - School of Management

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 3,090

42.

Communications and the Internet: Facebook, E-Mail, and Beyond

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 22 Feb 2010

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David C. Hricik

Mercer University - Walter F. George School of Law

Downloads 3,056

43.

Empirical Analysis of Data Breach Litigation

Forthcoming in the Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, Temple University Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2012-30

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 16 Jan 2012 Last Revised: 01 Feb 2014

Accepted Paper Series

Sasha Romanosky, David A. Hoffman and Alessandro Acquisti

RAND Corporation, University of Pennsylvania Law School and Carnegie Mellon University - Heinz College

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 3,037

44.

An Integrated Model of Information Systems Adoption in Small Businesses

Journal of Management Information Systems, Vol. 15, No. 4, pp. 187-214, Spring 1999

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 25 Mar 2012 Last Revised: 12 Jun 2014

Accepted Paper Series

James Y.L. Thong

Hong Kong University of Science & Technology

Downloads 2,922

45.

Effective Strategies for Increasing Citation Frequency

International Education Studies, Vol. 6, No. 11, pp. 93-99, 2013

Number of pages: 7 Posted: 25 Oct 2013

Accepted Paper Series

Nader Ale Ebrahim, Hadi Salehi, Mohamed Amin Embi, Farid Habibi, Hossein Gholizadeh, Seyed Mohammad Motahar and Ali Ordi

Centre for Research Services, Institute of Management and Research Services (IPPP), University of Malaya (UM)University of Malaya (UM) - Department of Engineering Design and Manufacture, Islamic Azad University, Najafabad Branch, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia - Faculty of Education, University of Economic Sciences, University of Malaya (UM) - Department of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia - Faculty of Information Science and Technology and Universiti Teknologi Malaysia - Advance Informatics School (AIS)

Downloads 2,922

46.

Bullying in a Networked Era: A Literature Review

Berkman Center Research Publication No. 2012-17

Number of pages: 62 Posted: 15 Sep 2012 Last Revised: 21 Sep 2014

Working Paper Series

Nathaniel Levy, Sandra Cortesi, Urs Gasser, Edward Crowley, Meredith Beaton, June Casey and Caroline Nolan

Harvard University - Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University - Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University - Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University - Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University - Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University Library and affiliation not provided to SSRN

Downloads 2,792

47.

Creating Social Contagion Through Viral Product Design: A Randomized Trial of Peer Influence in Networks

Management Science, Forthcoming

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 30 May 2010 Last Revised: 30 Aug 2012

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Sinan Aral and Dylan Walker

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management and Boston University

Downloads 2,782

48.

Payout Policy Through the Financial Crisis: The Growth of Repurchases and the Resilience of Dividends

Journal of Financial Economics (JFE), Forthcoming, Chicago Booth Research Paper No. 12-01

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 05 Jan 2012 Last Revised: 24 Nov 2015

Working Paper Series

Eric Floyd, Nan Li and Douglas J. Skinner

University of California San Diego, University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management and The University of Chicago - Booth School of Business

Downloads 2,722

49.

Crowdfunding or Fraudfunding? Social Networks and the Securities Laws – Why the Specially Tailored Exemption Must be Conditioned on Meaningful Disclosure

North Carolina Law Review, Forthcoming

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 03 Nov 2011 Last Revised: 03 Jan 2013

Accepted Paper Series

Thomas Lee Hazen

University of North Carolina School of Law

Downloads 2,700

50.

Digital Diplomacy: The Impact of the Internet on International Relations

OII Working Paper No. 16

Number of pages: 20 Posted: 13 Jan 2009

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Nicholas Westcott

U. K. Foreign & Commonwealth Office

Downloads 2,676

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