One of the important characteristics of Web2.0 is the collaboration between Web2.0 service providers. They allow users (i.e., providers, developers, consumers) to combine their services. The prerequisite for this collaboration is openness of the Web2.0 service system. Although the Web2.0...

The increasing digitalization of business activities in recent years has been a significant impetus to business model innovation. In this sense, we are witnessing the success of companies that base their businesses on the digital platform model. Therefore, the basic purpose of this paper is to...

The aim of this paper is to discuss the business model of a free social GPS mobile app for public transportation. The app functioning relies on open data and crowdsourcing. The crossing of transporter data (open data) and service users' data (crowdsourcing) feed the app's algorithm, which in the...

Background: Innovating how organisations run their business is a strategic decision to create more value for customers using or consuming the product and/or service provided. In addition to the incentive of everybody embracing digital transformation, digital technologies, and digital innovation,...

Considering pursuing the differentiation strategy makes enable the organization to earn its success and to create, capture and sustain economic value. Despite this importance, it is relatively absentminded in empirical studies at the conceptual level. In response to this gap, the purpose of this...

Second life (henceforward, SL) has captured the interest of many scholars and practitioners. Indeed, the entrance of many real world companies, attracted by the potentialities of Virtual Worlds (henceforward, VWs), has been interpreted as the signal for the discovery of new web-based business...

Les années 2000 sont celles du web 2.0 interactif et de l’essor des réseaux sociaux. Se profilent aujourd’hui les applications de géolocalisation, la mobiquité, l’intelligence ambiante, l’essor du web 3.0… Les médias et les nouveaux médias sont en mutation et participent de...

This paper proposes a new model of imperfect competition of ad-sponsored media, which can sell "free" products, for a merger analysis applicable to the mobile app industry. To analyze developers’ monetizing with both price and advertising in an app, we consider a consumer who faces both budget...

Daten entwickeln sich rapide zu einer der wichtigsten Unternehmensressourcen. Immer mehr Unternehmen stellen sich die Frage, wie sie Daten gewinnbringend in ihrem Geschäft einsetzen können. In diesem Zusammenhang werden datengetriebene Geschäftsmodelle zunehmend zu einem...

Motivated by recent trends in apps and electronic media, I study the pricing decision of a durable-goods monopolist to derive conditions under which freemium pricing is optimal. Under freemium pricing, the firm charges a price of zero for the durable good but offers optional micro-transactions...