The Matthew effect describes the phenomenon that in societies, the rich tend to get richer
and the potent even more powerful. It is closely related to the concept of preferential …

Despite three decades of intensive research efforts, it remains an open question as to what
is the underlying distribution of user-generated passwords. In this paper, we make a …

Organization scholars differ in their understanding and application of the construct of
“knowledge” in theorizing and empirical research. Over the past years, two perspectives …

This study examines the effect of the 2008 global financial crisis on the crude oil market. We
use the Hurst exponent, Shannon entropy, and the scaling exponent to characterize the …

Zipf's law is one of the few quantitative reproducible regularities found in e-nomics. It states
that, for most countries, the size distributions of cities and of rms (with additional examples …

Virtually anything can be and is ranked; people, institutions, countries, words, genes.
Rankings reduce complex systems to ordered lists, reflecting the ability of their elements to …

Bug bounty programs offer a modern way for organizations to crowdsource their software
security, and for security researchers to be fairly rewarded for the vulnerabilities they find …

As firms increasingly sanction an open sourcing strategy, the question of which open source
project to undertake remains tentative. The lack of established metrics makes it difficult to …

We use the metatheoretical principle of cumulative advantage as a framework to understand
the presence of heavy‐tailed productivity distributions and productivity stars. We relied on …

We empirically verify that the market capitalizations of coins and tokens in the cryptocurrency
universe follow power-law distributions with significantly different values for the tail exponent …