1.
What is Web 2.0: Design Patterns and Business Models for the Next Generation of Software
Communications & Strategies, No. 1, p. 17, First Quarter 2007
Number of pages: 21
Posted: 22 Aug 2007
Accepted Paper Series
O'Reilly Media
Downloads
42,442
2.
The Dynamics of Crowdfunding: An Exploratory Study
Journal of Business Venturing, Volume 29, Issue 1, January 2014, Pages 1–16
Number of pages: 16
Posted: 12 Jul 2012
Last Revised: 08 Nov 2013
Accepted Paper Series
University of Pennsylvania - Wharton School
Downloads
29,683
3.
The Rise of the Sharing Economy: Estimating the Impact of Airbnb on the Hotel Industry
Boston U. School of Management Research Paper No. 2013-16
Number of pages: 45
Posted: 14 Dec 2013
Last Revised: 19 Nov 2016
Working Paper Series
Questrom School of Business, Boston University, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California and Boston University - Department of Computer Science
Downloads
22,070
4.
Bitcoin: An Innovative Alternative Digital Currency
Hastings Science & Technology Law Journal, Vol. 4, p.160
Number of pages: 50
Posted: 23 Apr 2011
Last Revised: 18 Aug 2014
Accepted Paper Series
Yale Law School
Downloads
18,332
5.
Social Privacy in Networked Publics: Teens’ Attitudes, Practices, and Strategies
A Decade in Internet Time: Symposium on the Dynamics of the Internet and Society, September 2011
Number of pages: 29
Posted: 10 Sep 2011
Last Revised: 03 Jan 2013
Accepted Paper Series
Data & Society Research Institute and Data & Society Research Institute
Downloads
12,646
6.
Consumer Acceptance and Use of Information Technology: Extending the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology
MIS Quarterly, Vol. 36, No. 1, pp. 157-178, 2012
Number of pages: 43
Posted: 10 Feb 2012
Accepted Paper Series
University of Arkansas - Department of Information Systems, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST) - HKUST School of Business and Management and Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Downloads
11,335
7.
Effects of Word-of-Mouth versus Traditional Marketing: Findings from an Internet Social Networking Site
Robert H. Smith School Research Paper No. RHS 06-065
Number of pages: 49
Posted: 08 May 2008
Last Revised: 19 Jun 2014
Working Paper Series
University of Maryland - Robert H. Smith School of Business, UCLA Anderson School of Management and Ozyegin University
Downloads
10,519
8.
Inferring App Demand from Publicly Available Data
MIS Quarterly, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 25
Posted: 09 Sep 2011
Last Revised: 19 Jun 2014
Working Paper Series
University of Texas at Austin - Department of Information, Risk and Operations Management and Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management
Downloads
9,936
9.
Facebook Tracks and Traces Everyone: Like This!
Tilburg Law School Legal Studies Research Paper Series No. 03/2011
Number of pages: 10
Posted: 01 Dec 2010
Last Revised: 11 Mar 2014
Working Paper Series
TNO Information and Communication Technology in Delft
Downloads
8,864
10.
Flash Cookies and Privacy II: Now with HTML5 and ETag Respawning
Number of pages: 21
Posted: 30 Jul 2011
Working Paper Series
Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), University of Wyoming, University of California, Berkeley - School of Information, Good Research and University of California, Berkeley - School of Information
Downloads
8,853
11.
HarvardX and MITx: Two Years of Open Online Courses Fall 2012-Summer 2014
Number of pages: 37
Posted: 30 Mar 2015
Last Revised: 01 Apr 2015
Working Paper Series
Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Office of Digital Learning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Office of Digital Learning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), National University of Singapore, Harvard University, Harvard University and Harvard University - HarvardX
Downloads
8,679
12.
Goodbye Pareto Principle, Hello Long Tail: The Effect of Search Costs on the Concentration of Product Sales
Management Science, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 32
Posted: 26 Dec 2006
Last Revised: 19 Jun 2014
Accepted Paper Series
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, Georgia Institute of Technology - Scheller College of Business and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management
Downloads
8,555
13.
Reel Piracy: The Effect of Online Film Piracy on International Box Office Sales
Number of pages: 28
Posted: 17 Jan 2012
Last Revised: 20 Aug 2014
Working Paper Series
Chapman University - The George L. Argyros School of Business & Economics and University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - Carlson School of Management
Downloads
7,957
14.
A Brief History of Information Privacy Law
PROSKAUER ON PRIVACY, PLI, 2016, GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 215
Number of pages: 53
Posted: 10 Jul 2006
Last Revised: 09 Feb 2017
Accepted Paper Series
George Washington University Law School
Downloads
7,835
15.
Optimal Software Free Trial Strategy: The Impact of Network Externalities and Consumer Uncertainty
Number of pages: 49
Posted: 14 Sep 2007
Last Revised: 29 Jul 2012
Working Paper Series
University of Florida - Warrington College of Business and University of Florida - Warrington College of Business Administration
Downloads
7,563
16.
Digital Discrimination: The Case of Airbnb.com
Harvard Business School NOM Unit Working Paper No. 14-054
Number of pages: 21
Posted: 11 Jan 2014
Working Paper Series
Harvard University - HBS Negotiations, Organizations and Markets Unit and Harvard Business School
Downloads
7,335
17.
Peer-to-Peer Rental Markets in the Sharing Economy
NYU Stern School of Business Research Paper (First version March 2015; current version September 2017)
Number of pages: 39
Posted: 08 Mar 2015
Last Revised: 10 Sep 2017
Working Paper Series
Harvard University - Institute for Quantitative Social Sciences and New York University (NYU): Stern School of Business and Center for Urban Science+Progress
Downloads
7,204
18.
What Makes You Click? Mate Preferences and Matching Outcomes in Online Dating
MIT Sloan Research Paper No. 4603-06
Number of pages: 63
Posted: 11 Apr 2006
Working Paper Series
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business, University of Chicago - Department of Economics and Duke University - Fuqua School of Business
Downloads
6,902
19.
HarvardX and MITx: Four Years of Open Online Courses -- Fall 2012-Summer 2016
Number of pages: 19
Posted: 23 Dec 2016
Last Revised: 16 Jan 2017
Working Paper Series
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Office of Digital Learning and Harvard University
Downloads
6,759
20.
A First Look at Online Reputation on Airbnb, Where Every Stay is Above Average
Number of pages: 22
Posted: 25 Jan 2015
Last Revised: 12 Apr 2015
Working Paper Series
Questrom School of Business, Boston University, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California and Boston University - Department of Computer Science
Downloads
6,521
21.
Information Asymmetry and Thwarting Spam
Number of pages: 11
Posted: 20 Jan 2004
Working Paper Series
University of Michigan - Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Boston University – Questrom School of Business and University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - School of Information
Downloads
6,404
22.
Wisdom of Crowds: The Value of Stock Opinions Transmitted Through Social Media
Review of Financial Studies (RFS), Forthcoming
Number of pages: 52
Posted: 12 Apr 2011
Last Revised: 04 Oct 2016
Accepted Paper Series
City University of Hong Kong - Department of Information Systems, Purdue University - Krannert School of Management, Georgia Institute of Technology - Scheller College of Business and Cornell University - Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
Downloads
6,318
23.
Social Media Use in Organizations: Exploring the Affordances of Visibility, Editability, Persistence, and Association
Communication Yearbook, Vol. 36, pp. 143-189, 2012
Number of pages: 90
Posted: 15 Aug 2012
Last Revised: 20 Oct 2013
Accepted Paper Series
Northwestern University and University of California, Santa Barbara
Downloads
6,200
24.
Crowdfunding: The New Frontier for Financing Entrepreneurship?
Number of pages: 13
Posted: 06 Oct 2012
Working Paper Series
Polytechnic University of Milan - Dipartimento di Ingegneria Gestionale, affiliation not provided to SSRN, Politecnico di Milano and affiliation not provided to SSRN
Downloads
6,084
25.
Bitcoin - Asset or Currency? Revealing Users' Hidden Intentions
ECIS 2014 (Tel Aviv)
Number of pages: 14
Posted: 16 Apr 2014
Last Revised: 22 May 2015
Accepted Paper Series
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Goethe University Frankfurt Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Goethe University Frankfurt Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Goethe University Frankfurt Faculty of Economics and Business Administration and Goethe University Frankfurt Faculty of Economics and Business Administration
Downloads
5,824
26.
Wi-Fi Liability: Potential Legal Risks in Accessing and Operating Wireless Internet
Santa Clara Computer and High Technology Law Journal, Vol. 21, p. 543, 2005
Number of pages: 17
Posted: 09 Apr 2005
Accepted Paper Series
Independent
Downloads
5,698
27.
A Study of Factors Affecting Online Buying Behavior: A Conceptual Model
Number of pages: 11
Posted: 09 Nov 2013
Working Paper Series
Thakur Institute of Management Studies & Research, Mumbai and Priyadarshini Engineering College - Department of Management
Downloads
5,642
28.
The Generative Internet
Harvard Law Review, Vol. 119, p. 1974, May 2006, Oxford Legal Studies Research Paper No. 28/2006, Berkman Center Research Publication No. 2006/1
Number of pages: 63
Posted: 13 Nov 2005
Accepted Paper Series
Harvard Law School and Harvard Kennedy School of Government
Downloads
5,562
29.
The New Ambiguity of 'Open Government'
59 UCLA L. Rev. Disc. 178 (2012)
Number of pages: 31
Posted: 02 Mar 2012
Last Revised: 21 Aug 2014
Accepted Paper Series
Princeton University - Center for Information Technology Policy and Georgetown University Law Center
Downloads
5,329
30.
Are Close Friends the Enemy? Online Social Networks, Self-Esteem, and Self-Control
Journal of Consumer Research, Forthcoming, Columbia Business School Research Paper No. 12-57
Number of pages: 46
Posted: 03 Oct 2012
Accepted Paper Series
Columbia Business School - Marketing and University of Oxford - Said Business School
Downloads
4,813
31.
The Emerging Field of Internet Governance
Yale Information Society Project Working Paper Series
Number of pages: 21
Posted: 17 Sep 2010
Last Revised: 29 Jul 2014
Working Paper Series
American University
Downloads
4,657
32.
The ICO Gold Rush: It's a Scam, It's a Bubble, It's a Super Challenge for Regulators
University of Luxembourg Law Working Paper No. 11/2017, UNSW Law Research Paper No. 17-83, University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law Research Paper No. 2017/035, European Banking Institute Working Paper Series 18/2018, Harvard International Law Journal, Vol. 63, No. 2, 2019
Number of pages: 43
Posted: 19 Nov 2017
Last Revised: 18 Aug 2018
Working Paper Series
Universite du Luxembourg - Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance, University of New South Wales (UNSW) - Faculty of Law, The University of Hong Kong - Faculty of Law and Research Assistant @ ADA Chair in Financial Law (inclusive finance)
Downloads
4,634
33.
Advocacy 2.0: An Analysis of How Advocacy Groups in the United States Perceive and Use Social Media as Tools for Facilitating Civic Engagement and Collective Action
Number of pages: 25
Posted: 08 Nov 2011
Last Revised: 19 Aug 2014
Working Paper Series
York University, affiliation not provided to SSRN and University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - School of Information
Downloads
4,542
34.
What Makes a Helpful Review? A Study of Customer Reviews on Amazon.com
MIS Quarterly, 34(1), March, pp.185-200, 2010
Number of pages: 17
Posted: 13 Nov 2012
Accepted Paper Series
Fox School of Business, Temple University and Temple University - Department of Management Information Systems
Downloads
4,493
35.
From Marketing Mix to E-Marketing Mix: A Literature Overview and Classification
International Journal of Business and Management, Vol. 4, No. 9, pp. 17-24, 2009
Number of pages: 7
Posted: 20 Nov 2011
Last Revised: 19 Aug 2014
Accepted Paper Series
University of Palermo - d/SEAS
Downloads
4,434
36.
Advertising Content and Consumer Engagement on Social Media: Evidence from Facebook
Management Science, Accepted and Forthcoming
Number of pages: 57
Posted: 26 Sep 2013
Last Revised: 07 Mar 2018
Accepted Paper Series
Carnegie Mellon University - David A. Tepper School of Business, University of Pennsylvania - Operations & Information Management Department and Stanford University - Graduate School of Business
Downloads
4,335
37.
What’s Different About Social Media Networks? A Framework and Research Agenda
MIS Quarterly, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 69
Posted: 25 Mar 2013
Accepted Paper Series
Boston College, Emory University, University of Kentucky - Gatton College of Business and Economics and University of Kentucky
Downloads
4,324
38.
Can We Stabilize the Price of a Cryptocurrency?: Understanding the Design of Bitcoin and Its Potential to Compete with Central Bank Money
Number of pages: 39
Posted: 06 Nov 2014
Working Paper Series
Waseda University - Graduate School of Commerce, Hitotsubashi University - Institute of Economic Research, Yokohama National University, Faculty of Environment and Information Sciences and Keio Research Institute at SFC, Keio University
Downloads
4,209
39.
Why Do People Use Social Media? Empirical Findings and a New Theoretical Framework for Social Media Goal Pursuit
Number of pages: 33
Posted: 23 Jan 2012
Working Paper Series
George Washington University School of Business and George Washington University School of Business
Downloads
4,204
40.
E-Business and Supply Chain Management: An Overview and Framework
Tuck School of Business Working Paper No. 03-06
Number of pages: 20
Posted: 05 Mar 2003
Working Paper Series
Independent and Stanford Graduate School of Business
Downloads
4,174
41.
E-Books in Libraries: A Briefing Document Developed in Preparation for a Workshop on E-Lending in Libraries
Berkman Center Research Publication No. 2012-15
Number of pages: 29
Posted: 17 Jul 2012
Last Revised: 08 Jun 2014
Accepted Paper Series
Harvard University - Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University - Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society and Harvard Law School
Downloads
4,110
42.
The Legal Status of Online Currencies: Are Bitcoins the Future?
Journal of Banking and Finance Law and Practice (2013)
Number of pages: 38
Posted: 26 Jun 2013
Last Revised: 04 Nov 2013
Accepted Paper Series
Monash University - Faculty of Law
There are 2 versions of this paper
The Legal Status of Online Currencies: Are Bitcoins the Future?
Journal of Banking and Finance Law and Practice (2013)
Number of pages: 38
Posted: 26 Jun 2013
Last Revised: 04 Nov 2013
Downloads
4,093
The Legal Status of Online Currencies – Are Bitcoins the Future?
Melbourne Business School, 2016 Financial Institutions, Regulation & Corporate Governance (FIRCG) Conference
Number of pages: 38
Posted: 22 Feb 2016
Last Revised: 07 Dec 2016
Downloads
409
Downloads
4,093
43.
Opening Platforms: How, When and Why?
This paper has been published under the same title as Chapter 6 in Platforms, Markets & Innovation (ed. Gawer, 2009) pp 131-162, Harvard Business School Entrepreneurial Management Working Paper No. 09-030
Number of pages: 29
Posted: 07 Sep 2008
Last Revised: 12 Jun 2014
Accepted Paper Series
Harvard University - Entrepreneurial Management Unit, Dartmouth College and Boston University – Questrom School of Business
Downloads
4,089
44.
Virtual Teams: A Literature Review
Australian Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences, Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 2653-2669, 2009
Number of pages: 17
Posted: 07 Nov 2009
Accepted Paper Series
Centre for Research Services, Institute of Management and Research Services (IPPP), University of Malaya (UM)University of Malaya (UM) - Department of Engineering Design and Manufacture, University of Malaya (UM) and University of Malaya (UM)
Downloads
3,984
45.
Gone in 60 Seconds: The Impact of the Megaupload Shutdown on Movie Sales
Number of pages: 29
Posted: 07 Mar 2013
Last Revised: 20 Nov 2013
Working Paper Series
Chapman University - The George L. Argyros School of Business & Economics and Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management
Downloads
3,921
46.
Models of Internet Governance
Illinois Public Law Research Paper No. 07-25, U Illinois Law & Economics Research Paper No. LE08-027
Number of pages: 45
Posted: 26 May 2008
Last Revised: 23 Dec 2013
Accepted Paper Series
Georgetown University Law Center
Downloads
3,867
47.
From TV to Twitter: How Ambient News Became Ambient Journalism
Media/Culture Journal, Vol. 13, No. 2, May 2010
Number of pages: 6
Posted: 31 Dec 2010
Accepted Paper Series
University of British Columbia - School of Journalism
Downloads
3,835
48.
Cyber-Attacks and the Use of Force: Back to the Future of Article 2(4)
Yale Journal of International Law, Vol. 36, 2011
Number of pages: 39
Posted: 11 Sep 2010
Last Revised: 10 Aug 2014
Working Paper Series
Columbia Law School
Downloads
3,821
49.
The Digitization of Word-of-Mouth: Promise and Challenges of Online Feedback Mechanisms
MIT Sloan Working Paper No. 4296-03
Number of pages: 36
Posted: 08 Apr 2003
Working Paper Series
Boston University, Questrom School of Business - Department of Information Systems
Downloads
3,759
50.
Virtual World Business Brands: Entrepreneurship and Identity in Massively Multiplayer Online Gaming Environments
Number of pages: 30
Posted: 07 Jun 2005
Working Paper Series
Independent
Downloads
3,756
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