Recently user-oriented online sharing communities have seen explosive growth. Two characteristics of these communities set them apart from traditional online message-based communities such as online forums. First, users have no social ties before joining the community. Second, there is little or...

E-markets have been established in many industries as a sourcing option for buyers, yet in many situations they are used to complement long-term supplier-buyer relationships rather than replacing them. In this paper, we analyze the complementary role of e-markets when the buyer uses e-markets as...

Firms benefit from participating in a consortium in two ways: from the final products and from the cooperation process. We define the latter as process benefits, which include both inter-organizational learning benefits and social capital benefits. This paper examines the drivers of these two...

The existing literature and industry trends suggest that web-based channels are fast becoming an integral part of the traditionally offline retailers' overall channel strategy. This paper takes a game theoretic approach to study the impact of web-based e-commerce on the choice of distribution...

How do participants in free/libre open source software (henceforth FL/OSS) development in different countries differ in the preference for such public good initiatives? How do their incentives to participate in FL/OSS development differ across global boundaries? This exploratory study performs a...