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Internet-based platform businesses outcompete traditional brick and mortar business on nearly all measures of … comparison. Similarly, distributed ledger technology (DLT) businesses depend on the internet and show a lot of promise in … multiple business verticals. Yet, internet-based platform businesses and DLT businesses have not reached their full potential …
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Using proprietary data from Alibaba, we examine how the 2015 Food Safety Law (FSL) affects e-commerce in China. The FSL requires most food sellers on e-commerce platforms to obtain a valid online license for retail food handling. Because the FSL was rolled out progressively, we have a rare...
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This article presents and analyses the results of a large-scale empirical study in which over 11,000 consumers from ten countries in five continents were surveyed about their use, perceptions and understanding of online platform services. To the author’s knowledge, this is the first...
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The European Union’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) initiative, which is set to introduce ex ante regulatory rules for “gatekeepers” in online platform markets, is one of the most important pieces of legislation to emanate from Brussels in recent decades. It not only has the potential to...
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