... adoption, namely, innovation attributes, customer’s personality and word-of-mouth. Next, we establish a modified gravity model to describe how social interactions affect consumer’s adoption behavior. Then, simulate the adoption process by setting each agent as the initial adopter to identify the optimal...

...Chengzhang Li; Minghui Jiang; Xuchuan Yuan Purpose Consumers are inclined to join longer queues due to social interactions in service consumptions. This purchase behavior brings in operational challenges in terms of capacity planning, which affects consumers’ demand, leading to an unstable...

... Autopoietic systems theory Communications Community Memory Social interactions Social networks In the last decades, it has become a sociological commonplace to stress the intrinsic weakness of the notion of community. Yet, little effort has been put into attaining a conceptual unity whatsoever...