While existing research on peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing services has increased our understanding in many respects, it has not yet supplied a comprehensive theoretical framework that explains business failures of P2P file-sharing network service models. We develop such an analytical model and...

The development of easy-to-use Internet tools for synchronous communications has made a new research method possible: online focus groups. Attempts to apply them to questions formerly addressed by face-to-face focus groups have resulted not only in promising avenues for research, but also in...

Technological innovations have always influenced the ways in which music is made and consumed in societies. Now that music has entered the digital realm a new revolution is underway, one in which fundamental changes in nearly all aspects of the culture of modern music experience are being driven...

Digital technologies are profoundly transforming the production and consumption of culture and entertainment products. The emerging digital re-mix culture is an open source approach where content products in the arts and entertainment industries are increasingly rearranged, manipulated, and...

New forms of implicit consumer collaborations in online communities and social networks influence demand preferences as consumers (1) increasingly exchange information about products and providers (thus reducing information asymmetry) and (2) increasingly participate in the creation of cultural...

Several studies have shown that Consumer-to-consumer (C2C) auctions operate below their revenue and efficiency potential. From a theoretical perspective, most auction researchers agree that dynamic prices should improve the performance of these auctions, but it is still unclear whether dynamic...