This editorial discusses the sociological perspective of innovation, starting with a critical overview situation sociology in current innovation studies. An outline several key challenges to understanding society is followed by an interpretation characteristics based on core assumptions discipline. The concludes summary papers special issue.

This thesis seeks to understand the relationships between salary, non-monetary factors, and job satisfaction in the labor market. It applies lessons from both economic theory and sociological research as it contextualizes and studies these different aspects of the labor market. In a regression comparing salary and non-monetary factors, only two out of 16 dummy variables are statistically signif...

The information age has facilitated knowledge sharing among different parts of the world. Research ideas and methodologies are shared through conferences and publications by MIS researchers in Europe and in North America. However, there has been little movement toward a more uniform research paradigm on the two continents. One reason may be the difference in research tradition, which is strongl...

We introduce random directed acyclic graph and use it to model the information diffusion network. Subsequently, we analyze the cascade generation model (CGM) introduced by Leskovec et al. [19]. Until now only empirical studies of this model were done. In this paper, we present the first theoretical proof that the sizes of cascades generated by the CGM follow the power-law distribution, which is...

We examine the role of age, gender, and work experience on the propensity to buy, share, and use pirated software. These demographics are key properties of the cognitive-developmental, gender socialization, and occupational socialization theories. We find the overall level of reported buying is low, while the level of sharing and use is high. From the perspective of socialization, we find diffe...

In the framework of heavy mid-level processing for high speed imaging, a nonlinear bi-dimensional network is proposed, allowing the implementation of active curve algorithms. Usually this efficient type of algorithm is prohibitive for real-time image processing due to its calculus charge and the inadequate structure for the use of serial or parallel architectures. Another kind of implementation...