Despite the growing popularity of investment-based crowdfunding, we know little about what platforms do before the campaign. This is one of the first studies to provide cross-platform evidence on investment-based crowdfunding. First, we describe the regulation and development over time of...

In this report the JPMorgan Chase Institute assembled one of the largest samples of participants in the Online Platform Economy to date: over 240,000 de-identified individuals who earned income between October 2012 and June 2016 from one or more of 42 different platforms. Our findings point to...

The paper discusses the so-called sharing economy from an industrial structure perspective. The illustrative cases examined are Airbnb and Uber. The research question raised is concerned with the extent to which transaction cost theory can be used to explain the changing industrial structures in...

Les marketplaces représentaient 8% du chiffre d'affaires du e-commerce en France en 2012. Dix ans plus tard, cette proportion atteint près de 40% ! Prenant Amazon comme cas d'étude, nous observons paradoxalement, que l'image de la marque semble suivre une tendance inversement proportionnelle...