Does the Internet undermine social capital or facilitate inter-personal and civic engagement in the real world? Merging … unique telecommunication data with geo-coded German individual-level data, we investigate how broadband Internet affects …-owned telecommunication provider in the 1990s that still hinders broadband Internet access for many households. We find no evidence that the …

The Internet has enabled new forms of large-scale collaboration. Voluntary contributions by large numbers of users and …-scale collaboration on the Internet is an intriguing phenomenon for scholarly debate because it challenges well established insights into …

This paper shows how organizational, technical, and environmental factors affected firm decisions to adopt Internet … technologies during the early years of the commercialization of the Internet. Organizations that had made prior investments in … client/server networks had a higher likelihood of Internet adoption, however investments in proprietary or platform …

-generated information consumed everyday over the internet may not have surprised visionaries like Marshall McLuhan. Nevertheless, now that …