In her book, Horne develops a theory of norm enforcement. Norms are fundamental to explain social order. Norm enforcement has been studied in many ways in the social sciences. However, Horne adds a truly unique approach. She links norm enforcement with social interdependence by asking how norm enforcement relates to the social relations people have with each other. She defines interdependence a...

Virtual communities are self-selecting groups of individuals engaged in sustained computer-mediated interactions around common interests or goals, governed by shared norms and values, and serving individual and shared needs. This work proposes and empirically tests the model of social influence on individual shopping preferences in the context of virtual communities. This work proposed and supp...

Shared Health Care Networks © Copyright 1994, Fay Cobb Payton Doctoral Student in Management Information and Decision Systems Case Western Reserve University Today's access professionals manage the entrance to, passage through, and departure from the health care delivery process. These activities require information from various sources outside of the hospital environment. This article will pro...

Designing incentive schemes for Peer-to-Peer (P2P) multimedia sharing applications, where the participating peers find it in their self-interest to contribute resources rather than to “free-ride”, is challenging due to the unique features exhibited by such networks: large populations of anonymous peers interacting infrequently, asymmetric interests of peers, network errors, multiple concurrent ...

This study examines the impact of legitimacy on the dynamics of interorganizational networks within the nongovernmental organizations’ children’s rights community. The 27-year period of analysis included a critical community event: the ratification of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC). Building on theories of organizational evolution, hypotheses proposed that (1) ...

Sociological research points at norms and social networks as antecedents of prosocial behavior. To date, the literature remains undecided on how these factors jointly influence prosocial behavior. Furthermore, the use of social media by campaign organizations may change the need for formal networks to organize large-scale collective action. Hence, in this paper we examine the interplay of proso...