Emergence of power laws in online communities: The role of social mechanisms and preferential attachment

MIS Quarterly: Management Information Systems

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 795-808

  Johnson, Steven L ^a   Faraj, Samer ^b   Kudaravalli, Srinivas ^c  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c HEC PARIS   (France)

Author keywords

Online communities; Power law distribution; Preferential attachment; Reciprocity; Scale free; Simulation; Social exchange

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; ONLINE SYSTEMS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

ON-LINE COMMUNITIES; POWER LAW DISTRIBUTION; PREFERENTIAL ATTACHMENTS; RECIPROCITY; SCALE-FREE; SIMULATION; SOCIAL EXCHANGE;

WEBSITES;

EID: 84944877960     PISSN: 02767783     EISSN: 21629730     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.25300/MISQ/2014/38.3.08     Document Type: Article

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