Recent studies have investigated the effect of investors' opinions, or peer-based advice, available on social media platforms or stock discussion forums on the financial market. The researchers have been focusing on stock earnings surprises, abnormal returns and trading volume. But the jury is...

The rapid development of textual analysis techniques has paved the way for automatic sentiment analysis. Many studies have been focusing on using sentiments disclosed from social media to predict the financial market performance. However, the underlying value of the messages collected from...

Organizations seeking to improve user engagement continue to invest in fan pages on social media platforms anticipating that in a progressive global marketplace users will utilize these technologies, which will enhance organizational competitive advantages. With the steady growth of the number...

As technological advancements facilitate democratization of knowledge, Microblogging platforms are vying to become the premier source of knowledge and are competing with news outlets. A huge number of messages is generated on different microblogging platforms. In financial markets, microblogging...

Social Media has been a popular platform for individuals to share their opinions of financial markets. Meanwhile, journalists and analysts contribute to news media to express their analysis on financial securities. This research compares the effect of opinions expressed via social media and news...

Online software engineering repositories like GitHub are great resources of socio-technical data about software development process. GitHub as a large-scale social coding environment contains various types of open source projects. Selecting a suitable project from a developer's perspective is...

Online consumption communities evolve over time and go through different stages in their life cycle (Iriberri & Leroy, 2009). The key factor of the sustainability of the community is members' ongoing contribution. This study examines the factors affecting the ongoing contribution of online...

Information generated in online markets can affect both buyers’ and sellers’ expectations and therefore their choices. In this research, we investigate the effect of market information, generated in online auction markets, on buyers’ expectations and choices. To clear large inventories,...

The open source software (OSS) movement thrives on innovation and volunteer effort of developers. Scholars have expressed widespread concern about the sustainability of the OSS movement due to high levels of volunteerism. In this paper, we address a central challenge to the sustainability of...

Choice of market mechanism is a key for success for any online marketplace. In recent years, as P2P lending has seen phenomenal growth, leading P2P lending platforms have used various market mechanisms, and in some cases, switched from one mechanism to another, chasing higher market share and...