The music industry has repeatedly expressed concerns over online music sharing activity and its potentially devastating impact on revenues. Until recently, attempts to control online file-sharing have been primarily through consumer education and legal action against the operators of networks...

"In the future data communication networks interoperability becomes critical from both technological and business strategy perspective. Significance of interoperability has to be evaluated in terms of the overall economic performance of the system. In this paper we will present our view of the...

Motivated by the importance of having reliable online rating systems, we examine the ebb and flow of online ratings with a focus on whether aberrations in online ratings cast a long shadow in subsequent ratings. Our study consists of two complementary pieces: first, we reveal the dynamics...

The Internet has transformed the nature of business-to-consumer transaction-making practices in many industries. Sellers now attract customers with innovative Internet-based selling mechanisms that can reveal or conceal market information. We define market transparency as a design dimension for...