Nowadays many platforms emerge to provide delivery services by having independent shoppers to deliver groceries from independent retailers to consumers. To understand how to price this service, we formulate a two-sided platform's profit maximization problem by considering network externality. We...

Sharing-Economy-Netzwerke sind spezielle Managementobjekte, deren Komplexität eine eingehende Untersuchung ihrer Funktionsweise und Grundprobleme erfordert. Maximilian Lukesch entwickelt für das Beispiel eines Online-Mitfahrdiensts ein umfangreiches Managementkonzept, das die Steuerung seiner...

This study analyzes the business model decision of social platforms with a commerce feature. In practice, social platforms can adopt either an advertising model or a brokerage model. We develop a game-theoretic model to recommend the better business model and investigate the effect of social...

The internet giants - Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Google, among others - have transformed society with both positive and negative effects. The negative effects have been stark. There have been huge disruptions caused by e-commerce. More recently, subtler, but even more serious negative effects...