The criteria for evaluating a crowdfunding project vary from person to person. Some investors are concerned with the entrepreneurs' profiles, while others are more interested in the creativity behind the project. Most investors evaluate a project by referring to founder-generated content....

In enterprise software markets, firms are increasingly using services-based business models built on open-source software (OSS) to compete with established, proprietary software firms. Because thirdparty firms can also strategically contribute to OSS and compete in the services market, the...

The open-source software (OSS) production model has been gaining ground and even expanding to a broader class of products. A central virtue of OSS is co-creation through contributions and feedback from the user community, yet our knowledge of how to coordinate and maximize the benefit of such...

User contribution is critical to online communities but also difficult to sustain given its public goods nature. This paper studies the design of IT artifacts to motivate voluntary contributions in online communities. We propose a dynamic approach, which allows the effect of motivating...

Platforms compete intensively to attract users. Monetary subsidies are commonly used to incentivize users’ adoption, but such subsidies are expensive. In this paper, we study the impacts of token incentives, an alternative incentive approach, in the competition of two decentralized exchange...