... 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...

... and degenerated social units by definition (Baumann, 1996). © MCB UP Limited 1997 Autopoietic systems theory Communications Community Memory Social interactions Social networks Community has an important communicative advantage: one can refer to it without feeling compelled to explain...