Purpose: The paper aims to evaluate the implementation of stakeholder theory including the elements of environment, community, employee, supplier and consumers in social activities of companies. The evaluation of corporate social responsibilities can be traced from the reporting activities on...

This paper studies the competition between Web 2.0 communities in a game theoretic framework. We model three important features of these institutions: (i) firms' content is usually user-generated; (ii) consumers' content preferences are governed by local network effects, and (iii) consumers have...

In its February 2008 issue, the Harvard Business Review (HBR) classified “collaborative” technologies (social networking sites, virtual worlds, multi-player games, the peer‐to‐peer economy) as one of the 20 most important developments in the business world. A study from The McKinsey...

The success of any User-Generated Content (UGC) website depends crucially on its asset of content contributors. How firms should invest in the acquisition and retention of content contributors represents a novel question that is particularly important for these websites. We develop a vector...

The Web is the largest human information construct in history transforming our society. How can we understand, measure and model the Web evolution in order to design effective policies and optimize its social benefit? Early measurements of the Internet traffic and the Web graph indicated the...

As subjects of the parental right to choose (DES, 1988), parents are called upon to fulfill certain duties and responsibilities when choosing a secondary school for their child, with the expectation that they might navigate the school system ‘successfully’ and become ‘better informed...

Trust is a crucial factor in e-commerce. However, consumers are less likely to trust unknown websites. This study explores how less-familiar e-commerce websites can use branding alliances and website quality to increase the likelihood of initial consumer trust. We use the associative network...

We examine 89 websites from federal regulatory agencies in order to evaluate their ease of use for those interested in commenting on or learning about their proposed regulations. We find that while there has been a lot of attention given to second and third generation "e-rulemaking" efforts,...

Searching information in the web, is a common feature and the most easy way to get oneself exposed to a see of knowledge. The simplicity and economic way of getting information in the web made it widely acceptable amongst the citizens including the researchers. However, all the information...

The opportunities that the Internet brings for civil society groups, from information dissemination to deliberation and from service delivery to mobilization have led scholars to anticipate it to be a critical resource for communication and collaboration with its stakeholders. However, such...