Marshall W. Van Alstyne

Boston University - Department of Management Information Systems

Allen & Kelli Questrom Professor of Information Systems

595 Commonwealth Avenue

Boston, MA 02215

United States

http://questromapps.bu.edu/mgmt_new/Profiles/VanAlstyneMarshall.html

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School

Digital Fellow

Initiative on the Digital Economy

245 First St, Room E94-1521

Cambridge, MA 02142

United States

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Information, Technology and Information Worker Productivity

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Information, Technology and Information Worker Productivity

Information Systems Research, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 05 Nov 2006 Last Revised: 31 Aug 2014
Sinan Aral, Erik Brynjolfsson and Marshall W. Van Alstyne
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and Boston University - Department of Management Information Systems
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Social Networks, Productivity, Information Worker, IT, Multitasking, Dynamic Panel Data, System GMM

Information, Technology and Information Worker Productivity: Task Level Evidence

NBER Working Paper No. w13172
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 27 Jun 2007 Last Revised: 30 Dec 2022
Sinan Aral, Erik Brynjolfsson and Marshall W. Van Alstyne
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and Boston University - Department of Management Information Systems
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Platform Strategy

The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Strategic Management (2014)
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 22 May 2014 Last Revised: 08 May 2019
Geoffrey Parker and Marshall W. Van Alstyne
Dartmouth College and Boston University - Department of Management Information Systems
Downloads 7,242 (1,971)
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Platforms, Two-Sided Networks, Network Effects, Competition, Governance, Openness, Launch

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Two-Sided Network Effects: A Theory of Information Product Design

Management Science, Vol, 51, No. 10, pp. 1494–1504, 2005
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 27 Jul 2008 Last Revised: 27 Mar 2012
Geoffrey Parker and Marshall W. Van Alstyne
Dartmouth College and Boston University - Department of Management Information Systems
Downloads 6,910 (2,125)
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Two Sided Markets, Network Externalities, Network Effects, Antitrust, Information Pricing, Cross-Subsidy, Freemium

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Information Asymmetry and Thwarting Spam

Number of pages: 11 Posted: 20 Jan 2004
Thede Loder, Marshall W. Van Alstyne and Rick Wash
University of Michigan - Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Boston University - Department of Management Information Systems and University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - School of Information
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Spam, email, information markets, mechanism design, signaling, screening, warranty, filtering, information asymmetry

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The EU Digital Markets Act: A Report from a Panel of Economic Experts

Cabral, L., Haucap, J., Parker, G., Petropoulos, G., Valletti, T., and Van Alstyne, M ., The EU Digital Markets Act, Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg, 2021,ISBN 978-92-76-29788-8, d oi:10.2760/139337, JRC122910., Boston University Questrom School of Business Research Paper No. 3783436, NYU Stern School of Business Forthcoming
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 18 Feb 2021 Last Revised: 02 Aug 2023
Luis M. B. Cabral, Justus Haucap, Justus Haucap, Geoffrey Parker, Georgios Petropoulos, Tommaso M. Valletti and Marshall W. Van Alstyne
New York University (NYU) - Leonard N. Stern School of Business - Department of Economics, German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin)Heinrich Heine University Dusseldorf - Department of Economics, Dartmouth College, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Imperial College Business School and Boston University - Department of Management Information Systems
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Digital Markets Act, Regulation, Competition Policy, Digital Platforms

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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
Thomas R. Eisenmann, Geoffrey Parker and Marshall W. Van Alstyne
Harvard University - Entrepreneurial Management Unit, Dartmouth College and Boston University - Department of Management Information Systems
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platforms, network effects, open innovation, standards, two-sided networks

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Platform Ecosystems: How Developers Invert the Firm

Boston University Questrom School of Business Research Paper No. 2861574
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 31 Oct 2016
Geoffrey Parker, Marshall W. Van Alstyne and Xiaoyue Jiang
Dartmouth College, Boston University - Department of Management Information Systems and Tulane University
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Vertical Integration, Open Innovation, Sequential Innovation, Platforms, R&D Spillovers, Intellectual Property, Network Effects, Network Externalities, Open Source, Licensing, Two-Sided Networks, Two-Sided Markets, Standard Setting Organizations

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Information Complements, Substitutes, and Strategic Product Design

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 11 Dec 2000 Last Revised: 01 Jan 2014
Geoffrey Parker and Marshall W. Van Alstyne
Dartmouth College and Boston University - Department of Management Information Systems
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free information, complements, substitutes, network effects, network externality, pricing, bundling, two-sided markets, two sided networks

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Digital Platforms and Antitrust

2021 Winner of Antitrust Writing Award, view at https://awards.concurrences.com/en/awards/2021/academic-articles/digital-platforms-and-antitrust
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 17 Jun 2020
Geoffrey Parker, Georgios Petropoulos and Marshall W. Van Alstyne
Dartmouth College, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Boston University - Department of Management Information Systems
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Antitrust, Regulation, Digital platforms, Data sharing

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Platform Envelopment

Forthcoming 2011, Strategic Management Journal, Harvard Business School Entrepreneurial Management Working Paper No. 07-104
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 28 Jun 2007 Last Revised: 27 Aug 2013
Thomas R. Eisenmann, Geoffrey Parker and Marshall W. Van Alstyne
Harvard University - Entrepreneurial Management Unit, Dartmouth College and Boston University - Department of Management Information Systems
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Market entry, platforms, network effects, bundling, foreclosure

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The Impact of APIs in Firm Performance

Boston University Questrom School of Business Research Paper No. 2843326
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 27 Sep 2016 Last Revised: 23 May 2017
Seth Benzell, Guillermo Lagarda and Marshall W. Van Alstyne
Chapman University - The George L. Argyros School of Business & Economics, Global Development Policy Center Boston University and Boston University - Department of Management Information Systems
Downloads 3,680 (6,229)
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Firm performance, IT productivity, APIs, platforms, internal and external networks, event study

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Innovation, Openness, and Platform Control

Number of pages: 19 Posted: 02 Jan 2008 Last Revised: 08 May 2019
Geoffrey Parker and Marshall W. Van Alstyne
Dartmouth College and Boston University - Department of Management Information Systems
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Open Innovation, Sequential Innovation, Two-Sided Markets, Two Sided Networks, Platforms, Patent Length, Network Effects, Externalities, R&D Spillovers, Bundling, Vertical Integration, Standard Setting Organizations

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The Diversity-Bandwidth Tradeoff

American Journal of Sociology, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 78 Posted: 22 Jan 2007 Last Revised: 31 Jul 2011
Sinan Aral and Marshall W. Van Alstyne
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management and Boston University - Department of Management Information Systems
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Social Networks, Social Capital, Information Content, Information Diversity, Network Size, Network Diversity, EMail Networks, Performance, Productivity, Information Work.

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Productivity Effects of Information Diffusion in Networks

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 21 May 2007
Sinan Aral, Erik Brynjolfsson and Marshall W. Van Alstyne
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and Boston University - Department of Management Information Systems
Downloads 2,451 (11,851)
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Networks, Information Diffusion, Productivity, Email

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An Empirical Analysis of Strategies and Efficiencies in Social Networks

Boston U. School of Management Research Paper No. 2010-29, MIT Sloan Research Paper No. 4682-08
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 20 Sep 2010 Last Revised: 27 Mar 2012
Nathaniel Bulkley and Marshall W. Van Alstyne
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - School of Information and Boston University - Department of Management Information Systems
Downloads 1,950 (17,063)
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social networks, email, productivity

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Global Village or Cyberbalkans: Modeling and Measuring the Integration of Electronic Communities

Management Science, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 27 Jul 2005
Marshall W. Van Alstyne and Erik Brynjolfsson
Boston University - Department of Management Information Systems and National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
Downloads 1,836 (18,805)
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Globalization, Information Economy, Information Flows, Computerization of Society, Organizational Structure, Economic Impacts, Balkanization, Social Networks

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How APIs Create Growth by Inverting the Firm

Number of pages: 63 Posted: 16 Aug 2019 Last Revised: 30 Dec 2022
Seth Benzell, Jonathan Samuel Hersh, Marshall W. Van Alstyne and Guillermo Lagarda
Chapman University - The George L. Argyros School of Business & Economics, Chapman University - The George L. Argyros College of Business and Economics, Boston University - Department of Management Information Systems and Global Development Policy Center Boston University
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Platforms, APIs, Information Security, Technology Strategy, Market Capitalization

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Six Challenges in Platform Licensing and Open Innovation

Communications & Strategies, No. 74, p.17, 2nd quarter 2009
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 27 Feb 2010 Last Revised: 14 May 2014
Geoffrey Parker and Marshall W. Van Alstyne
Dartmouth College and Boston University - Department of Management Information Systems
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licensing, open source, free software, dual licensing, platform, intellectual property

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Harnessing the Digital Lens to Measure and Manage Information Work

Number of pages: 16 Posted: 17 Nov 2010
Sinan Aral, Erik Brynjolfsson and Marshall W. Van Alstyne
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and Boston University - Department of Management Information Systems
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Innovation Through Optimal Licensing in Free Markets and Free Software

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 03 Jan 2005
Geoffrey Parker and Marshall W. Van Alstyne
Dartmouth College and Boston University - Department of Management Information Systems
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Innovation, Free Software, Open Source, Lead Users, Two-Sided Markets, Platform Goods, Copyright Length, CopyFlex, Network Effects, Network Externalities, Intellectual Property Rights

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How to Find Answers within Your Company

Sloan Management Review, V52, N2; pp 66-77, (2011), Boston U. School of Management Research Paper No. 2010-24 , MIT Sloan Research Paper No. 5072-10
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 02 Aug 2010 Last Revised: 13 Dec 2013
Hind Benbya and Marshall W. Van Alstyne
Deakin University and Boston University - Department of Management Information Systems
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Knowledge Markets, Internal Crowdsourcing, Virtual Currencies, Information Markets, Knowledge Management Systems, Productivity, Internal Markets, Two-Sided Networks, Price Theory, Monetary Policy, Incentives, IT Adoption, Measurement

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Why Information Should Influence Productivity

MIT Sloan Research Paper No. 4680-08
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 07 Feb 2020
Nathaniel Bulkley and Marshall W. Van Alstyne
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - School of Information and Boston University - Department of Management Information Systems
Downloads 1,323 (30,906)
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information technology, productivity, information economics, social networks, search

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Free Speech, Platforms & The Fake News Problem

Number of pages: 64 Posted: 04 Feb 2022 Last Revised: 20 Mar 2023
Marshall W. Van Alstyne
Boston University - Department of Management Information Systems
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Free Speech, Fake News, Misinformation, Platforms, Section 230, Information Economics, Decision Theory, Externalities

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Platform Mergers and Antitrust

Boston University Questrom School of Business Research Paper No. 376351
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 11 Jan 2021 Last Revised: 11 Sep 2021
Geoffrey Parker, Georgios Petropoulos and Marshall W. Van Alstyne
Dartmouth College, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Boston University - Department of Management Information Systems
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Merger policy, Digital platforms, antitrust, Regulation

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How Users Drive Value in Two-sided Markets: Platform Designs that Matter

Number of pages: 51 Posted: 20 Mar 2024 Last Revised: 21 Mar 2024
Zhou Zhou, Lingling Zhang and Marshall W. Van Alstyne
City University of Hong Kong -- College of Business, China Europe International Business School and Boston University - Department of Management Information Systems
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two-sided markets, network effects, a user growth strategy, winner-take-all, customer lifetime value, platform design, user stickiness, product learning

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Platform Leadership: Staffing and Training the Inverted Firm

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 08 Jul 2021
Peter Evans, Geoffrey Parker, Marshall W. Van Alstyne and Dyan Finkhousen
Platform Strategy Institute, Dartmouth College, Boston University - Department of Management Information Systems and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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Platform, Talent, Leadership, Leadership Development, Training, Executive Education

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Towards Efficient Information Sharing in Network Markets

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Towards Efficient Information Sharing in Network Markets

Proceedings of the 57th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences 2024
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 03 Nov 2021 Last Revised: 29 Feb 2024
Bertin Martens, Geoffrey Parker, Georgios Petropoulos and Marshall W. Van Alstyne
Tilburg Law and Economics Center (TILEC), Dartmouth College, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Boston University - Department of Management Information Systems
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Information sharing, data rights, digital platforms, market failure, in-situ, algorithms, data portability

Towards Efficient Information Sharing in Network Markets

TILEC Discussion Paper No. DP2021-014
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 05 Nov 2021
Bertin Martens, Geoffrey Parker, Georgios Petropoulos and Marshall W. Van Alstyne
Tilburg Law and Economics Center (TILEC), Dartmouth College, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Boston University - Department of Management Information Systems
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Information sharing, data rights, digital platforms, market failure, in-situ, algorithms, data portability

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Platform Competition and Information Sharing

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Platform Competition and Information Sharing

Number of pages: 51 Posted: 03 Aug 2023 Last Revised: 29 Sep 2023
Georgios Petropoulos, Bertin Martens, Geoffrey Parker and Marshall W. Van Alstyne
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Tilburg Law and Economics Center (TILEC), Dartmouth College and Boston University - Department of Management Information Systems
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Information sharing, digital platforms, data bottleneck, data portability

Platform Competition and Information Sharing

CESifo Working Paper No. 10663
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 26 Sep 2023
Georgios Petropoulos, Bertin Martens, Geoffrey Parker and Marshall W. Van Alstyne
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Tilburg Law and Economics Center (TILEC), Dartmouth College and Boston University - Department of Management Information Systems
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information sharing, digital platforms, data bottleneck, data portability

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To Standardize Enterprise Data or Not? An Economic Analysis of Flexibility versus Control

MIT Sloan Research Paper No. 4566-05, CISL Working Paper No. 2005-10
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 09 Nov 2005 Last Revised: 03 May 2013
Chander K. Velu, Stuart Madnick and Marshall W. Van Alstyne
University of Cambridge - Judge Business School, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management and Boston University - Department of Management Information Systems
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economics of IS, outsourcing, enterprise systems, real options, incomplete contracts, standardization, information asset, flexibility and information systems decentralization

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Antecedents and Consequences of Mutual Knowledge in Teams

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 14 Nov 2008
Sinan Aral, Erik Brynjolfsson and Marshall W. Van Alstyne
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and Boston University - Department of Management Information Systems
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Mutual Knowledge, Diversity, Social Networks, Demography, Geographic Dispersion, Information Distance, Teams, Performance

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The Social Efficiency of Fairness

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The Social Efficiency of Fairness

Boston U. School of Management Research Paper No. 2009-11, MIT Sloan Research Paper No. 4765-09, Gruter Institute Squaw Valley Conference – Innovation and Economic Growth, 2010
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 28 Nov 2009 Last Revised: 29 Jul 2020
Dr. Gavin Clarkson Esq. and Marshall W. Van Alstyne
Tribal Finance LLC and Boston University - Department of Management Information Systems
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Intellectual Property, Governance, Information Asymmetry, Innovation, Fairness, Shapley Value, Incentives, Contracts, Mechanism Design, Rawls, Veil of Ignorance

The Social Efficiency of Fairness

1995-2011 TPRC Conference
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 30 Jul 2012 Last Revised: 28 Oct 2014
Dr. Gavin Clarkson Esq. and Marshall W. Van Alstyne
Tribal Finance LLC and Boston University - Department of Management Information Systems
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Intellectual Property, Governance, Information Asymmetry, Innovation, Fairness, Shapley Value, Incentives, Contracts, Mechanism Design

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Digital Platforms 2.0: Learnings, Opportunities, and Challenges

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 21 Jun 2024
Shrabastee Banerjee, Ishita Chakraborty, Hana Choi, Hannes Datta, Remi Daviet, Chiara Farronato, Minkyung Kim, Anja Lambrecht, Puneet Manchanda, Aniko Oery, Ananya Sen, Marshall W. Van Alstyne, Prasad Vana, Kenneth C. Wilbur, Xu Zhang and Bobby Zhou
Tilburg University - Department of Marketing, University of Wisconsin - Madison - Department of Marketing, University of Rochester - Simon Business School, Tilburg University, Wisconsin School of Business, Harvard University, Carnegie Mellon University - David A. Tepper School of Business, London Business School, University of Michigan, Stephen M. Ross School of Business, Yale University - Cowles Foundation, Carnegie Mellon University - H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, Boston University - Department of Management Information Systems, Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, University of California, San Diego (UCSD) - Rady School of Management, London Business School and University of Maryland, Smith School of Business
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online markets, platform design, platform regulation

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Money Models for MOOCs

Communications of the ACM, August 2013, 56(8) pp 25-28
Number of pages: 4 Posted: 01 Oct 2013
Chrysanthos Dellarocas and Marshall W. Van Alstyne
Boston University, Questrom School of Business - Department of Information Systems and Boston University - Department of Management Information Systems
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Business models, MOOC, platforms, education, information technology

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Platform Transformation Risk and the Role of Hosting Rivals

Number of pages: 62 Posted: 09 Feb 2022 Last Revised: 06 Apr 2023
Shiva Shekhar, Sarvesh Bandhu and Marshall W. Van Alstyne
Tilburg University - Tilburg University School of Economics and Management, Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore and Boston University - Department of Management Information Systems
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Platform transformation, Network Effects, Hosting rivals, investment risks, external value creation

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The State of Network Organization: A Survey in Three Frameworks

Journal of Organizational Computing, Vol. 7, No. 3, 1997
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 27 Mar 2009 Last Revised: 31 Mar 2009
Marshall W. Van Alstyne
Boston University - Department of Management Information Systems
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markets versus hierarchies, decentralization, decision locus, asset specificity, vertical integration, communication, coordination costs, governance, teams, collaboration

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Is It Time for a Platform Magna Carta?

Number of pages: 14 Posted: 27 Apr 2022
Kai Zhu, Dylan Walker and Marshall W. Van Alstyne
Bocconi University, Chapman University and Boston University - Department of Management Information Systems
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digital platforms, privately-owned public infrastructure, social justice, magna carta

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Information Sharing, Social Norms and Performance

Number of pages: 51 Posted: 23 Jul 2011 Last Revised: 05 Sep 2013
Marco Di Maggio and Marshall W. Van Alstyne
Harvard Business School and Boston University - Department of Management Information Systems
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learning effect, information sharing, productivity, communication

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Why Not One Big Database? Principles for Data Ownership

Decision Support Systems, Vol. 15, pp. 267-284, 1995, MIT Sloan Research Paper
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 25 Apr 2011
Marshall W. Van Alstyne, Erik Brynjolfsson and Stuart Madnick
Boston University - Department of Management Information Systems, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management
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Distributed Database Design, Incomplete Contracts, Centralization, Decentralization, Standards, Outsourcing, Converters, Economic Models

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Free Speech and the Fake News Problem

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 19 Apr 2023 Last Revised: 16 Nov 2024
Marshall W. Van Alstyne
Boston University - Department of Management Information Systems
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Free Speech, Fake News, Misinformation, Platforms, Section 230, Information Economics, Decision Theory, Externalities

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Proposal: A Market for Truth to Address False Ads on Social Media

Forthcoming in Communications of the ACM, Boston University Questrom School of Business Research Paper No. 2020-03, MIT Sloan Research Paper No. 2020-03
Number of pages: 3 Posted: 16 Apr 2020 Last Revised: 22 Jun 2020
Marshall W. Van Alstyne
Boston University - Department of Management Information Systems
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Fake News, False Advertising, Externalities, Signaling, Information Asymmetry

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Using Data and Respecting Users

Communications of the ACM, 2020
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 15 Jun 2020
Marshall W. Van Alstyne and A. Lenart
Boston University - Department of Management Information Systems and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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Data Science, Big Data, Analytics, Privacy, GDPR

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Distributed Energy Resources: New Markets and New Products

Proceedings of the 50th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (2017), ISBN: 978-0-9981331-0-2
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 11 May 2017
Richard Tabors, Michael Caramanis, Elli Ntakou, Geoffrey Parker, Marshall W. Van Alstyne, Paul A Centolella and Rick Hornby
Tabors, Caramanis, Rudkevich, Boston University, Boston University, Dartmouth College, Boston University - Department of Management Information Systems, Tabors, Caramanis, Rudkevich and Tabors, Caramanis, Rudkevich
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platform, two-sided market, electric power, renewable, DER, distributed energy resources, locational marginal pricing

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How to Strengthen Ad Mail by Building a Digital Information Market

Office of Inspector General - Risk Analysis Research Center, USPS, RARC-Working Paper No. 14-002
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 12 Jan 2014
Marshall W. Van Alstyne, Geoffrey Parker and Tushar Shanker
Boston University - Department of Management Information Systems, Dartmouth College and Boston University - Department of Management Information Systems
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Advertising, Coupons, QR Codes, Information Asymmetry, Marketing, Platforms

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An Economic Response to Unsolicited Communication

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An Economic Response to Unsolicited Communication

Advances in Economic Analysis & Policy, Vol. 6, No. 1, 2006, Boston U. School of Management Research Paper, MIT Sloan Research Paper No. 4880-11
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 18 Feb 2011 Last Revised: 26 Sep 2012
Thede Loder, Marshall W. Van Alstyne and Rick Wash
University of Michigan - Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Boston University - Department of Management Information Systems and University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - School of Information
Downloads 107 (505,377)
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Network Externalities, Call Externalities, Coase Theorem, Spam, UCE, Screening, Signaling, Filtering, Attention Markets

An Economic Response to Unsolicited Communication

TPRC 2005
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 30 Jul 2012
Thede Loder, Marshall W. Van Alstyne and Rick Wash
University of Michigan - Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Boston University - Department of Management Information Systems and University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - School of Information
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Curing Spam: Rights, Signals & Screens

MIT Sloan Research Paper, Forthcoming, Boston U. School of Management Research Paper, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 4 Posted: 16 Feb 2011
Marshall W. Van Alstyne
Boston University - Department of Management Information Systems
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Externalities, Information Asymmetry, Signaling, Screening, Attention Markets, Coase Theorem

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A Consequentialist Approach to Free Speech

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 19 Apr 2023 Last Revised: 16 Nov 2024
Marshall W. Van Alstyne
Boston University - Department of Management Information Systems
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Free Speech, First Amendment, Deontology, Utilitarianism, Fake News, Misinformation, Information Economics, Decision Theory, Externalities

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A Response to Fake News as a Response to Citizens United

August 2019, Vol. 62, No. 8, Communications of the ACM
Number of pages: 4 Posted: 05 Aug 2019
Marshall W. Van Alstyne
Boston University - Department of Management Information Systems
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Fake News, Free Speech, Citizens United, Super PAC, Church Turing Thesis

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Markets Can Cure Spam Zombies

Number of pages: 2 Posted: 18 Sep 2012
Marshall W. Van Alstyne and Sarah Zatko
Boston University - Department of Management Information Systems and Boston University - Department of Computer Science
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spam, zombies, attention bonds, Coase, two sided markets, insurance

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Valuing Information & Instrumental Goods

International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), 1999 proceedings
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 01 Sep 2020
Marshall W. Van Alstyne
Boston University - Department of Management Information Systems
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Information Technology Use and Productivity at the Individual Level

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP6260
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 21 May 2008
Neil Gandal, Charles King and Marshall W. Van Alstyne
Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University, Greylock McKinnon Associates and Boston University - Department of Management Information Systems
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information technology, productivity, social networks

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Free Speech vs. Free Ride: Navigating the Supreme Court's Social Media Paradox

Number of pages: 3 Last Revised: 17 Nov 2024
Marshall W. Van Alstyne
Boston University - Department of Management Information Systems
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Social Media, Supreme Court, Free Speech, Misinformation, Section 230

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Strategies for Two Sided Markets

Harvard Business Review, Vol. October, 2006
Posted: 16 Mar 2014
Thomas R. Eisenmann, Geoffrey Parker and Marshall W. Van Alstyne
Harvard University - Entrepreneurial Management Unit, Dartmouth College and Boston University - Department of Management Information Systems

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two sided markets, network effects, winner take all, multihoming, platforms, envelopment