Recent decades have seen a rise in the use of physics methods to study different societal
phenomena. This development has been due to physicists venturing outside of their …

Understanding the consequences of homophily, which is among the most widely observed
social phenomena, is important, with implications for management theory and practice …

Humans operate in groups that are oftentimes nested in multilayered collectives such as
work units within departments and companies, neighborhoods within cities, and regions …

Abstract In the United States, Asians appear disproportionately underrepresented in
leadership roles, a puzzling phenomenon known as the “Bamboo Ceiling”(Hyun, 2005; Lu et …

Social networks are dynamic by nature. While network research has typically treated
relationships between social actors as static, there has been a surge in literature extending …

Reputation systems promote cooperation and tie formation in social networks. But how
reputations affect cooperation and the evolution of networks is less clear when societies are …

How do individuals' network selection decisions create unique network structures? Despite
broad sociological interest in the micro-level social interactions that create macro-level …

Research in various disciplines has highlighted that humans are uniquely able to solve the
problem of cooperation through the informal mechanisms of reputation and gossip …

Volunteering in civil society organizations (CSOs) is sometimes idealized as welcoming
arena for everybody. Prior research, however, has shown that participation in volunteer work …

Online travel communities (OTCs) enable users to interact and share travel information
voluntarily. Extant research has primarily focused on the content generated through user …