Choice of market mechanism is a key for success for any online marketplace. In recent years, as P2P lending has seen phenomenal growth, leading P2P lending platforms have used various market mechanisms, and in some cases, switched from one mechanism to another, chasing higher market share and...

Social media has become an integral part of modern day society. With increasingly digital societies, individuals have become more familiar and comfortable in using Online Social Networks (OSNs) for just about every aspect of their lives. This higher level of comfort leads to users spilling their...

Growing popularity of OSS has attracted millions of developers to social coding platforms such as GitHub.com. However, it appears that OSS software is becoming a victim of its own success because finding the right project, among millions of projects hosted on social coding platforms, is a...