Informational Cascades and Software Adoption on the Internet: An Empirical Investigation

By Wenjing Duan, Bin Gu, Andrew Whinston. MIS Q., 2009

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

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Sequential and Temporal Dynamics of Online Opinion (2012, methodology): “According to these models—and to the empirical and experimental literature that has followed (for example, Çelen and Kariv 2004, 2005; Duan et al. 2009)—individuals may optimally ignore their private information and instead follow the observable choices made by those before them in a sequence.”
Do I Follow My Friends or the Crowd? Information Cascades in Online Movie Ratings (2015, unknown): “Under informational cascades, Duan et al. (2009) look specifically at the impact of user ratings on software adoption and find that user ratings have no significant impact on the adoption of popular software.”
Herding behavior in online P2P lending: An empirical investigation (2012, background): “Duan et al. (2009) empirically investigated informational cascades, which is one of the major mechanisms for herd behavior in the software downloading market.”
An Empirical Examination of the Antecedents and Consequences of Contribution Patterns in Crowd-Funded Markets (2013, unknown): “Although prior work has examined the role of popularity indicators as signals of quality, driving subsequent adoption behavior (Duan et al. 2009), in our case, the potential impact of observable prior decisions is more complex.”
Research Note - The Impact of External Word-of-Mouth Sources on Retailer Sales of High-Involvement Products (2012, background): “This set of control variables allows the diffusion coefficient to vary across products (Duan et al. 2009).”
First Step in Social Media: Measuring the Influence of Online Management Responses on Customer Satisfaction (2014, background): “The importance of online social media, particularly online customer review forums, has attracted signiﬁ-cant attention in recent studies (Chen et al. 2007, Chevalier and Mayzlin 2006, Clemons et al. 2006; Dellarocas 2003, Duan et al. 2009, Li and Hitt 2008).”
Internal Social Capital and the Attraction of Early Contributions in Crowdfunding (2015, background): “Observational learning has been found to occur in online auctions (Simonsohn & Ariely, 2008), electronic microloan markets (Zhang & Liu, 2012), online purchase of software programs (Duan et al., 2009), and music (Salganik, Dodds, & Watts, 2006).”
Harnessing the Influence of Social Proof in Online Shopping: The Effect of Electronic Word of Mouth on Sales of Digital Microproducts (2011, background): “Recent research has identified information cascades or herding as an important factor behind the lack of correlation between online customer ratings and sales [16].”