Over the past decade, researchers have paid attention to crowdfunding as a promising way to foster entrepreneurship and innovation. In this paper, we set out the state of the crowdfunding phenomenon in Africa, with a particular focus on sub-Saharan Africa. We review and summarize all the...

This paper compares the potential characteristics of B2B platforms as identified in the information systems literature with those in the general platform literature. Our analysis reveals that these characteristics are not exclusive to B2B platforms and suggests that the differences between B2B...

Firms achieve their competitive advantage quickly through the concept framework of open innovation by integrating external inspiration with internal endowment when facing hyper-competition in the digital era. This paper deploys open innovation into building platform blocks by modular operators....

This paper investigates the link between product quality and price setting for central processing units (CPUs). Using thousands of price quotes from a popular price-comparison website, we find that market fundamentals, such as the number of sellers, median price, share of convenient prices and...