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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

Tim O'Reilly

O'Reilly Media

Downloads 41,818

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

Ethan R. Mollick

University of Pennsylvania - Wharton School

Downloads 28,165

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

Georgios Zervas, Davide Proserpio and John Byers

Questrom School of Business, Boston University, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California and Boston University - Department of Computer Science

Downloads 20,703

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

Reuben Grinberg

Yale Law School

Downloads 16,141

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

danah boyd and Alice E. Marwick

Data & Society Research Institute and Data & Society Research Institute

Downloads 11,323

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

Viswanath Venkatesh, James Y.L. Thong and Xin Xu

University of Arkansas - Department of Information Systems, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology and Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Downloads 10,169

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

Michael Trusov, Randolph E. Bucklin and Koen H. Pauwels

University of Maryland - Robert H. Smith School of Business, UCLA Anderson School of Management and Ozyegin University

Downloads 10,037

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

Rajiv Garg and Rahul Telang

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 9,314

9.

Flash Cookies and Privacy II: Now with HTML5 and ETag Respawning

Number of pages: 21 Posted: 30 Jul 2011

Working Paper Series

Mika D Ayenson, Dietrich James Wambach, Ashkan Soltani, Nathan Good and Chris Jay Hoofnagle

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 8,517

10.

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

Erik Brynjolfsson, Yu Jeffrey Hu and Duncan Simester

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 8,364

11.

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

Arnold Roosendaal

TNO Information and Communication Technology in Delft

Downloads 8,245

12.

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

Andrew Dean Ho, Isaac Chuang, Justin Reich, Cody Austun Coleman, Jacob Whitehill, Curtis G Northcutt, Joseph Jay Williams, John D Hansen, Glenn Lopez and Rebecca Petersen

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), Harvard University, Harvard University, Harvard University and Harvard University - HarvardX

Downloads 7,964

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

Brett Danaher and Joel Waldfogel

Chapman University - The George L. Argyros School of Business & Economics and University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - Carlson School of Management

Downloads 7,604

14.

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

Hsing Kenneth Cheng and Yipeng Liu

University of Florida - Warrington College of Business and University of Florida - Warrington College of Business Administration

Downloads 7,549

15.

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

Daniel J. Solove

George Washington University Law School

Downloads 6,980

16.

Information Asymmetry and Thwarting Spam

Number of pages: 11 Posted: 20 Jan 2004

Working Paper Series

Thede C. Loder, Marshall W. Van Alstyne and Rick Wash

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 6,373

17.

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

Günter J. Hitsch, Ali Hortacsu and Dan Ariely

University of Chicago - Booth School of Business, University of Chicago - Department of Economics and Duke University - Fuqua School of Business

Downloads 6,336

18.

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

Benjamin G. Edelman and Michael Luca

Harvard University - HBS Negotiations, Organizations and Markets Unit and Harvard Business School - Negotiations, Organizations & Markets Unit

Downloads 5,698

19.

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

ROBERT V. HALE II

Independent

Downloads 5,655

20.

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

Hailiang Chen, Prabuddha De, Yu Jeffrey Hu and Byoung-Hyoun Hwang

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 5,592

21.

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

Jeffrey W. Treem and Paul M. Leonardi

Northwestern University and University of California, Santa Barbara

Downloads 5,502

22.

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

Samuel P. Fraiberger and Arun Sundararajan

Harvard University - Institute for Quantitative Social Sciences and New York University (NYU): Stern School of Business and Center for Urban Science+Progress

Downloads 5,410

23.

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

Jonathan L. Zittrain

Harvard Law School and Harvard Kennedy School of Government

Downloads 5,370

24.

Crowdfunding: The New Frontier for Financing Entrepreneurship?

Number of pages: 13 Posted: 06 Oct 2012

Working Paper Series

Giancarlo Giudici, Ricardo Nava, Cristina Rossi Lamastra and Chiara Verecondo

Polytechnic University of Milan - Dipartimento di Ingegneria Gestionale, affiliation not provided to SSRN, Politecnico di Milano and affiliation not provided to SSRN

Downloads 5,275

25.

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

Harlan Yu and David G. Robinson

Princeton University - Center for Information Technology Policy and Georgetown University Law Center

Downloads 5,105

26.

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

Georgios Zervas, Davide Proserpio and John Byers

Questrom School of Business, Boston University, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California and Boston University - Department of Computer Science

Downloads 5,019

27.

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

Isaac Chuang and Andrew Dean Ho

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Office of Digital Learning and Harvard University

Downloads 4,716

28.

A Study of Factors Affecting Online Buying Behavior: A Conceptual Model

Number of pages: 11 Posted: 09 Nov 2013

Working Paper Series

Vinay Kumar and Ujwala Dange

Thakur Institute of Management Studies & Research, Mumbai and Priyadarshini Engineering College - Department of Management

Downloads 4,579

29.

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

Keith Wilcox and Andrew T. Stephen

Columbia Business School - Marketing and University of Oxford - Said Business School

Downloads 4,375

30.

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

Jonathan A. Obar, Paul Zube and Cliff Lampe

York University, affiliation not provided to SSRN and University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - School of Information

Downloads 4,265

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

Laura DeNardis

American University

Downloads 4,083

32.

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

David O'Brien, Urs Gasser and John G. Palfrey Jr.

Harvard University - Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University - Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society and Harvard Law School

Downloads 4,009

33.

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

M. Eric Johnson and Seungjin Whang

Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth and Stanford Graduate School of Business

Downloads 3,975

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

Susan M. Mudambi and David Schuff

Fox School of Business, Temple University and Temple University - Department of Management Information Systems

Downloads 3,909

35.

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

Brett Danaher and Michael D. Smith

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 3,844

36.

Virtual World Business Brands: Entrepreneurship and Identity in Massively Multiplayer Online Gaming Environments

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 07 Jun 2005

Working Paper Series

Betsy Book

Independent

Downloads 3,716

37.

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

Chrysanthos Dellarocas

Boston University, Questrom School of Business - Department of Information Systems

Downloads 3,644

38.

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

Lawrence B. Solum

Georgetown University Law Center

Downloads 3,551

39.

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: 29 Sep 2017

Accepted Paper Series

Dokyun Lee, Kartik Hosanagar and Harikesh Nair

Carnegie Mellon University - David A. Tepper School of Business, University of Pennsylvania - Operations & Information Management Department and Stanford University - Graduate School of Business

Downloads 3,503

40.

Deriving the Pricing Power of Product Features by Mining Consumer Reviews

Management Science, Forthcoming, NET Institute Working Paper No. 07-36

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 27 Oct 2007 Last Revised: 06 May 2011

Accepted Paper Series

Nikolay Archak, Anindya Ghose and Panagiotis G. Ipeirotis

New York University (NYU) - Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York University (NYU) - Leonard N. Stern School of Business and New York University - Leonard N. Stern School of Business

Downloads 3,500

41.

The Economics of the Online Advertising Industry

Review of Network Economics, Vol. 7, No. 3, September 2008

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 25 Jan 2008 Last Revised: 19 Jun 2014

Accepted Paper Series

David S. Evans

Global Economics Group

Downloads 3,493

42.

The Role of Marketing in Social Media: How Online Consumer Reviews Evolve

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 17 Nov 2010 Last Revised: 19 Jun 2014

Working Paper Series

Yubo Chen, Scott Fay and Qi Wang

Tsinghua University - School of Economics & Management, Syracuse University and Binghamton University

Downloads 3,492

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

Thomas R. Eisenmann, Geoffrey Parker and Marshall W. Van Alstyne

Harvard University - Entrepreneurial Management Unit, Dartmouth College and Boston University – Questrom School of Business

Downloads 3,486

44.

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

Donna L. Hoffman and Thomas P Novak

George Washington University School of Business and George Washington University School of Business

Downloads 3,461

45.

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

Alfred Hermida

University of British Columbia - School of Journalism

Downloads 3,420

46.

Aviators, Moguls, Fashionistas and Barons: Economics and Ownership in Second Life

Number of pages: 10 Posted: 07 Nov 2004

Working Paper Series

Cory Ondrejka

University of Southern California - Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism

Downloads 3,417

47.

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

Matthew C. Waxman

Columbia Law School

Downloads 3,386

48.

Internet Banking in India – Consumer Concerns and Bank Strategies

Global Journal of Business Research, Vol. 2, No. 1, pp.43-51, 2008

Number of pages: 9 Posted: 17 Feb 2010

Accepted Paper Series

Pankaj Kumar Gupta

Independent

Downloads 3,374

49.

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

Nader Ale Ebrahim, Shamsuddin Ahmed and Zahari Taha

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 3,349

50.

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

Rhys Bollen

Monash University - Faculty of Law

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 3,340

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