Existing studies have often failed to find positive impacts of horizontal FDI on domestic firms. We argue that the two effects underpinning the impacts of horizontal FDI (i.e., the positive spillover effect and the negative competition effect) have different degrees of attenuation with geographic distance. As FDI is often distributed unevenly across space, studies that do not account for the ge...

Social network analysis, in the form of network theory, where nodes represent humans and edges represent social relationships between humans, have a wide range of applications in information science, political science, social science, economics, etc. The availability of data from location-based social media such as Gowalla and FourSquare has helped scientists model and analyze human relationshi...

The author order of multi-authored papers can reveal subtle patterns of scientific collaboration and provide insights on the nature of credit assignment among coauthors. This article proposes a sequencebased perspective on scientific collaboration. Using frequently occurring sequences as the unit of analysis, this study explores (1) what types of sequence patterns are most common in the scienti...

The project tackled in this article is a shopping recommender system that aims at providing recommendations of new interesting shopping places to users, by considering their tastes and those of their friends, since social friends are often sharing common interests. This kind of system is a Location-Based Social Network. It considers social relationships and check-ins; i.e. the action of visitin...