New forms of implicit consumer collaborations in online communities and social networks influence demand preferences as consumers (1) increasingly exchange information about products and providers (thus reducing information asymmetry) and (2) increasingly participate in the creation of cultural...

Several studies have shown that Consumer-to-consumer (C2C) auctions operate below their revenue and efficiency potential. From a theoretical perspective, most auction researchers agree that dynamic prices should improve the performance of these auctions, but it is still unclear whether dynamic...

While existing research on peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing services has increased our understanding in many respects, it has not yet supplied a comprehensive theoretical framework that explains business failures of P2P file-sharing network service models. We develop such an analytical model and...

This paper uses modified economic growth theory to compare and contrast two currently available ways of digital content distribution: the client-server model and the peer-to-peer (P2P) model. We describe a monopolistic pricing scheme for distributing digital content over P2P networks that...

Digital culture products are easily reproduced, easily distributed, and subject to boundless modification, extension and recombination. This sets the stage for the emergence of markets for co-production of cultural content. This paper studies two new market structures using two different...

This paper examines the question of how innovations diffuse across web 2.0 business designs and affect change at the industry level. We apply evolutionary theory as a theoretical lens and conceptualize the adoption and diffusion of innovations as a dynamic process where innovations propagate...

The AIS/ISWorld mailing list is the premier global communication tool for academicians in the information systems area. This paper employs content analysis of archival data to report on an exploratory study of the usage of ISWorld over a four year period between 2002 and 2006. We develop a...