There are millions of users of Twitter, Facebook, Linked-in and other social media. Because of that access to large number of users, marketing has made extensive use of social media to get closer to the customer. Unfortunately, the supply chain has made only limited use of social media. However,...

The paper reports on the explanatory case study among seven Polish enterprising migrants from Aberdeen Scotland. The aim of the paper is to examine role of social support structure and social networks for enterprising Poles. It also attempts to extend of Waldinger et al (2000) ethnic business...

Crowd sourcing is one of the many ways in which firms can engage in open innovation. Firms looking for ideas from outside furthermore have to decide whether they want to perform a one-shot broadcast search or whether they want to adopt a more iterative process. While one-shot broad- cast search...

Probably not. Or, at least, it is a sui generis two-sided market. Unlike other platforms, such as credit cards, night clubs, or operating systems, where a single transaction is performed via the platform (trade, date or using a PC), two different transactions take place on Google. Users look for...

This paper studies the effects of information exchange and social networks on the performance of prediction markets with endogenous information acquisition. We provide a game-theoretic framework to resolve the question: Can social networks and information exchange promote the forecast efficiency...

Information aggregation mechanisms are designed explicitly for collecting and aggregating dispersed information. An excellent example of the use of this "wisdom of crowds" is a prediction market. The purpose of our Twitter-based prediction market is to suggest that carefully designed market...

The rapid diffusion of ‘microblogging’ services such as Twitter is ushering in a new era of possibilities for organizations to communicate with and engage their core stakeholders and the general public. To enhance understanding of the communicative functions microblogging serves for...

To the extent public utility-style regulation has been debated within the Internet policy arena over the past decade, the focus has been almost entirely on the physical layer of the Internet. The question has been whether Internet service providers should be considered “essential facilities”...

For years employers have used social networking sites (SNS) such as Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Google, and LinkedIn to dig up incriminating evidence on prospective or current employees. Now credit reporting agencies (CRA) may conduct “social media background checks” on employees as well....

The paper discusses the impact of the use of Facebook as a supporting learning platform for a course in Mathematics at the undergraduate level. After the examination of some critical issues of Facebook in a learning framework, we analyze data on the usage the page (total reach and number of...