Group decision-making in organizations often occurs in the context of influence relationships. We develop a theory anchored in a computational model to analyze the conditions under which social influence structures aid or hurt information aggregation. We find that a group is most likely to...

Patent sharks, small firms that exploit information asymmetries in markets for technology to gain patent-based competitive advantages, challenge established theory by which (i) markets for technology benefit large firms and (ii) intellectual property rights systems strictly support markets for...

Im Datenkapitalismus sind neue Kommunikationsunternehmen entstanden, deren Angebot als „umsonst“ erscheint. Ihr Geschäftsmodell basiert darauf, dass die Nutzer (Kunden) ihre Daten preisgeben und dafür entweder ein nachgefragtes Gut (Kommunikation, Medien, Waren und Dienstleistungen) ohne...

Recent and ongoing investments into telecommunications infrastructure have facilitated the repeated waves of digitization, both in personal and professional life. I address the question of which actors should contribute to investment costs into telecoms infrastructure and how. One widely...