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...

Ecuador is one of the least diversified countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, depending heavily on oil and agriculture. This policy paper examines how services and innovation can play a role in transforming the Ecuadorian economy from one based on natural resources to one based on...