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A Classification Scheme for Characterizing Service Networks

Altmann, Jorn; Meschke, Martina; Mohammed, Ashraf Bany - Technology Management, Economics and Policy Program … - 2012

This paper introduces an extended definition of service networks. The service network definition, which can be used for … classifying service networks, comprises two parts: the service network declaration and the service network specification. The … service network specification consists of the specification of the network characteristics, the node characteristics, and the …

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Getting a Job through Voluntary Associations: the Role of Network and Human Capital Creation

Antoni, Giacomo degli - Econometica - 2009

The present paper draws on an original dataset collected by the author to investigate if: i)the relational network and … membership. Moreover, the econometric analysis shows that some activities related to the creation of social network (the …

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Group Size and Incentive to Contribute: A Natural Experiment at Chinese Wikipedia

Xiaoquan (Michael) Zhang; Zhu, Feng - NET Institute - 2007

The literature of private provision of public goods suggests that incentive to contribute is inversely related to group size. This paper empirically tests this relationship using field data from Chinese Wikipedia, an online encyclopedia. We exploit an exogenous reduction in group size as a...

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Business Associations and Private Ordering

Prüfer, Jens - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2012

Abstract: We study the capacity of business associations - private, formal, noncommercial organizations designed to promote the common business interests of their members - to support contract enforcement and collective action. Inspired by recent empirical literature, our theoretical framework...

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Softwareentwicklung im Netzwerk. Kooperation, Hierarchie und Wettbewerb in einem Open Source-Projekt

Brand, Andreas - Rainer Hampp Verlag

Softwareentwicklung eingegangen. In der Literatur ging man bisher davon aus, dass die Organisationsform Netzwerk (aehnlich wie in …

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Value Creation in IT Service Platforms through Two-Sided Network Effects

Haile, Netsanet; Altmann, Jorn - Technology Management, Economics and Policy Program … - 2012

the IT service platform stakeholder values. The results imply that there is a two-sided network effect. All stakeholders … from two-sided network effects goes to the platform provider. …

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Cloud Computing Value Chains Understanding Businesses and Value Creation in the Cloud

Mohammed, Ashraf Bany; Altmann, Jorn; Hwang, Junseok - Technology Management, Economics and Policy Program … - 2010

Based on the promising developments in Cloud Computing technologies in recent years, commercial computing resource services (e.g. Amazon EC2) or software-as-a-service offerings (e.g. Salesforce.com) came into existence. However, the relatively weak business exploitation, participation, and...

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The Impact of the Subgroup Structure on the Evolution of Networks: An Economic Model of Network Evolution

Kim, Kibae; Altmann, Jorn; Hwang, Junseok - Technology Management, Economics and Policy Program … - 2010

simple evolutionary network model that explains this difference. The results of our model suggest that there are two reasons …. Second, boundaries between subgroups (groups of network nodes) distort the degree distribution. In general, we believe that … network design recommendations in a variety of areas such as WWW-hyperlink networks, business collaboration networks, Peer …

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Measuring and Analyzing the Openness of the Web2.0 Service Network for Improving the Innovation Capacity of the Web2.0 System through Collective Intelligence

Kim, Kibae; Altmann, Jorn; Hwang, Junseok - Technology Management, Economics and Policy Program … - 2010

system of service composition forms a network, which we call the Web2.0 service network. A node of the Web2.0 service network ….0 service network can be understood as an innovation system that creates value through the composition of services, representing … the collective intelligence of users. Within this paper, we analyze the openness of the Web2.0 service network. Openness …

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Bank Credit and Business Networks

Khwaja, Asim Ijaz; Mian, Atif; Qamar, Abid - Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University - 2011

financial viability. We link two firms if they have a common director. The resulting topology includes a "giant network" that is … order of magnitudes larger than the second largest network. While it displays "small world" properties and comprises 5 … percent of all firms, it accesses two-thirds of all bank credit. We estimate the value of joining this giant network by …

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