The effective management of digital rights is the central challenge in many industries making the transition from physical to digital products. We present a new model that characterizes the value of these digital rights when products are sold both embedded in tangible physical artifacts, and as...

We define an economic network as a linked set of entities, where links are created by actual realizations of shared economic outcomes between entities. Such aggregations, which include a wide variety of Web-based product networks, are becoming increasingly available for business use. We analyze...

Online commercial interactions have increased dramatically over the last decade, leading to the emergence of networks that link the e-commerce landing pages of related products to one another. Our paper conjectures that the explicit visibility to consumers of such ldquo;product networksrdquo;...

Digital technologies have made networks ubiquitous. A growing body of research is examining these networks to gain a better understanding of how firms interact with their consumers, how people interact with each other, and how current and future digital artifacts will continue to alter business...