The chapter aims to define and analyze the preconditions for attending to the global business social networks (BSNs) and to discover attitudes of business managers for participation in open-source business social networks (BSNs). The data for analysis are found by deep interview techniques...

In this paper a network model is developed in which three players sequentially choose their strategies. In the first stage, a profit–maximizing network firm chooses the price and thus the size of the network. In the second stage the consumers decide whether to join in the network or not. In...

Econometricians are increasingly working with high-dimensional networks and their dynamics. Econometricians, however, are often confronted with unforeseen changes in network dynamics. In this paper, we develop a method and the corresponding algorithm for monitoring changes in dynamic networks....