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Marketing Science Vol. 38 No. 3 2019

U-Shaped Conformity in Online Social Networks

Monic Sun1; Xiaoquan Zhang2; Feng Zhu3

1 Questrom School of Business, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215; · 2 Department of Decision Sciences and Managerial Economics, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong; · 3 Harvard Business School, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts 02163

Abstract

Conformity toward the majority choice among a user’s friends on a social-networking site first decreases and then increases with the adoption rate of that choice.

DOI
10.1287/mksc.2018.1133
Volume
38
Issue
3
Pages
461-480
Language
en
Sources
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