Do I Follow My Friends or the Crowd? Information Cascades in Online Movie Ratings

By Young-Jin Lee, Kartik Hosanagar, Yong Tan. Management Sciences, 2015

364 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Management Science and Operations Research, Sociology and Political Science

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/25badcdc2f0cd9ff7d8924236f9d427fe9baf66a

How researchers see this paper

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In Management Science and Operations Research

1. Yong Tan
2. Junjie Wu
3. Yi-Chun Ho
4. Zeshui Xu

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Zhenping Zhang
2. Yong Tan
3. Junjie Wu
4. J. Qi
5. Manyi Chen
6. Jiaqi Liu
7. Yi-Chun Ho
8. Hong Wu

Citations in the corpus

• Disconfirmation Effect on Online Rating Behavior: A Dynamic Analysis (2014, background): “Lee et al. (2014) distinguish prior ratings by the friends from those by the strangers and investigate whether these two different sets of ratings have distinctive impact on a focal individual's opinions.”
• Understanding the Impact of Opinion Leaders’ Characteristics on Online Group Knowledge-Sharing Engagement from In-Group and Out-Group Perspectives: Evidence from a Chinese Online Knowledge-Sharing Community (2019, background): “Groups are often differentiated as strangers and friends [69], crowds and friends [70], and in-groups and out-groups [71,72].”