Lele Kang

TL;DR: Investigation of crowdfunding projects using advocates reveals that higher funding can be secured with advocates who are of further geographical distance and of higher social capital, and funding performance is further enhanced with a lower geographical propinquity.

TL;DR: This study innovatively mine a huge amount of unstructured data, the text data of borrowers’ and lenders’ motivations, to provide loan project recommendations that solve the problem of mismatches between borrowers and lenders.

TL;DR: The results show that scientists moving to China have a new growth pattern where both their productivity and the rates of being corresponding authors in publications grew more rapidly than before; however, they made fewer contributions to the four top journals, Nature, Science, Cell, and PNAS.

TL;DR: The investigation indicated that perceived information asymmetry and fears of seller opportunism, encapsulated under motivation dimension, and perceived personal expertise, which manifests ability dimension, significantly influence the use of live chat by consumers and demonstrated that live chat use positively affects the perceived interactivity of consumers, thereby increasing their intention to transact.

TL;DR: This article suggests that interpersonal trust and trust are more important than the norm and the reciprocity of the norm, and suggests that the latter is not influenced by the former.