Netnography i.e. the systematic observation and analysis of online communities to generate insights for an innovation process, has been established as a method of user innovation in consumer goods industries. In this study we apply this technique for the first time in the context of a complex,...

We created a unique data set based on social media data by collecting and geo-localising all the tweets of 54 thousand Swedish citizens from January 2019 to June 2019. This allows us to construct an attractive individual-level measure of preferences for pro-environmental behavior. We demonstrate...

Scholars typically portray employees’ management of concealable stigmas in face-to-face encounters in which social groups are easily separable (e.g., friends, family, and co-workers). This analytical predisposition overlooks the possible roles of social network sites (SNSs) such as Facebook...

Dynamic development of the Internet and electronic devices favours also its use in the marketing activity of enterprises what manifests itself in dynamic development of e-commerce or the use of the Internet for communication. Aim of this article is to evaluate the possibility of using Internet...

We study a model of online news dissemination on a Twitter-like social network. Given a news item and its credibility, agents with heterogeneous priors strategically decide whether to share the news with their followers. An agent shares the news, if the news can persuade her followers to take an...

As the Internet economy has grown, so too has the need for trust. A degree of trust is a critical ingredient in virtually all economic relationships, Internet or otherwise. Every day we choose to trust plumbers, doctors, employers, employees, teachers, airlines, and others. The need for trust...

In this paper, we study a model of online news dissemination on a Twitter-like social network. Given a noisy observation of the state of the world henceforth called the news, agents with heterogeneous priors decide whether to share with their followers based on whether receiving the news can...

The extent of digital disruption was not really perceived by many financial intermediaries justa few years ago. It is clear in 2017 that the digital disruption will change the financial industryfar more widely than the regulatory avalanches did since the financial crisis: The business modelin...

This article reports on an investigation of the role of lock-in exploitation and the impact of reputation portability on workers’ switching behaviors in online labor markets. Online platforms using reputation mechanisms typically prevent users from transferring their ratings to other...

In the past couple of years, several reports have concluded that a small number of large digital platforms act as gatekeepers in that they are necessary gateways between business users and their prospective customers. This allows these platforms to take advantage of the dependency of these...