Do i follow my friends or the crowd? Information cascades in online movie ratings

Management Science

Volumn 61, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 2241-2258

  Lee, Young Jin ^a   Hosanagar, Kartik ^b   Tan, Yong ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DENVER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Informational cascades; Latent variables; Multilevel models; Online social media; Online word of mouth; Ratings; Social influences

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; RATING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

LATENT VARIABLE; MULTILEVEL MODEL; ONLINE SOCIAL MEDIAS; ONLINE WORD OF MOUTHS; SOCIAL INFLUENCE;

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS;

EID: 84940526943     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: 15265501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.2014.2082     Document Type: Article

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