This cross-sectional study empirically tested a model to predict heterogeneous factors affecting financial institutions’ behavioural intentions toward using mobile peer-to-peer platforms. It explored behavioural intention from the perspective of financial institutions by combining behavioural...

The Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC) released its Digital Platform Services Inquiry, Interim Report No. 5 (Regulatory Reform) in September 2022. In December 2022, the Australian Treasury requested comments on the report. The ACCC Report recommends, inter alia, several...

We consider a heretofore unexplored explanation for why platforms, such as Internet service providers, might impose download limits on content consumers: doing so increases the degree to which those consumers view content providers’ products as substitutes. This, in turn, intensifies...

Market power on each side of a multisided platform, whether in the form of increasing prices or decreasing quality, is constrained by the risk of losing sales on the other sides. That tends to weaken market power on each side and encourages platforms to keep prices lower and quality higher than...

Crowdsourcing, the practice of obtaining information or input into a task or project through the services of a large number of people, either in a paid or unpaid manner, can give way to a form of crowd labour. Authorities have yet to attempt applying existing employment and labour laws to crowd...

The significant expansion of new, peer-to-peer businesses, supercharged by the internet and mobile technologies, has led to an exploration of the proper role that government regulation and oversight should play in these new ventures and markets. The value these companies bring in terms of...

Libraries are rapidly changing and expanding to web-based delivery of content and related access services to cater the information needs and expectations of their modern users. One approach is to design and develop multi tired architectures that include an integration layer providing programme...

In recent years, an increasing number of telecommunications companies such as BlackBerry Ltd. and software companies such as Apple Inc. or Google Inc. strived for a leading platform status within the information and communication technology (ICT) sector. While platform theory is able to cover...

Word-of-mouth (WOM) plays an increasingly important role in shaping consumers’ behavior and preferences as users’ opinions and choices are frequently shared in social media. In this paper, we examine whether latent personality traits of online users accentuate or attenuate the effectiveness...

This research study explores the role of mediation in enhancing transformative learning and in fostering an integrative vision for higher online education. Three different models will be explored: 1) Theoretical mediation models facilitate the development of transformative learning skills. 2)...