Big data, proxies, algorithmic decision‐making and the future of management theory

D Lindebaum, C Moser, G Islam - Journal of Management …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The future of theory in the age of big data and algorithms is a frequent topic in management
research. However, with corporate ownership of big data and data processing capabilities …

[HTML][HTML] Addressing Google Trends inconsistencies

E Cebrián, J Domenech - Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 2024 - Elsevier
Google Trends reports the evolution of the popularity of internet searches. Its main output is
the Search Volume Index (SVI), a relative measure of the popularity of a term computed …

Scraping innovativeness from corporate websites: Empirical evidence on Italian manufacturing SMEs

C Bottai, L Crosato, J Domenech, M Guerzoni… - … Forecasting and Social …, 2024 - Elsevier
Research in innovation studies usually relies on financial statements, surveys, or patents as
primary data sources, although these sources of information show some limitations when …

The mediated construction of “woke”: Emerging discourses and primary definers in the Flemish press

A Dhoest, S Paulussen - Journalism, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
From 2021,“woke” became an omnipresent term in Flemish public debate. In this paper, we
explore how the mainstream press contributed to the emergence and construction of …

Forecasting unemployment with Google Trends: age, gender and digital divide

R Mulero, A Garcia-Hiernaux - Empirical Economics, 2023 - Springer
This paper uses time series of job search queries from Google Trends to predict the
unemployment in Spain. Within this framework, we study the effect of the so-called digital …

Infodemiologists beware: recent changes to the google health trends API result in incomparable data as of 1 January 2022

PH Myburgh - International Journal of Environmental Research and …, 2022 - mdpi.com
In an ever-increasingly online world, many Internet users seek information from online
search engines such as Google. Accessing such search activity allows infodemiologists a …

[HTML][HTML] Searching the flames: Trends in global and regional public interest in wildfires

C Santín, A Moustakas, SH Doerr - Environmental Science & Policy, 2023 - Elsevier
Interactions between humans and wildfires have increased in many regions over the last
decades driven by climate and land-use changes. A shift towards more adaptive fire …

Extreme weather events and public attention to climate change in Australia

C Crellin, R MacNeil - Climatic Change, 2023 - Springer
2 Method The Google Trends Search Intensity Index was used as a proxy for national
attention to climate change. This tool tracks the frequency of given search terms used on …

The digital trail of Ukraine's 2022 refugee exodus

N Wycoff, LO Singh, A Arab, KM Donato… - … of Computational Social …, 2024 - Springer
When the 2022 Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine forced millions of people to leave their
homes, officials worldwide scrambled to estimate the number of people who would seek …

[HTML][HTML] Online Interest in Elf Bar in the United States: Google Health Trends Analysis

AS Bhagavathula, PD Dobbs - Journal of Medical Internet Research, 2024 - jmir.org
Background Despite the popularity of JUUL e-cigarettes, other brands (eg, Elf Bar) may be
gaining digital attention. Objective This study compared Google searches for Elf Bar and …