This research explores how landscape cultural perception impacts the spatial distribution of homestay businesses, and highlights the increasing role of digital technology in enhancing cultural tourism experiences and optimizing homestay industry operations. Using grounded theory, the research...

Many low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) are experiencing a nutrition transition from traditional diets to high-energy, processed foods, increasing non-communicable disease risks. Digitalization of food systems plays a significant role in shaping this transition. This paper investigates the...

Platforms that provide product recommendations to consumers, such as marketplaces like Amazon or online travel agencies like Expedia, govern a substantial part of transactions in many markets. In addition to selling via platforms, most firms, however, also operate a direct channel. This paper...

This paper examines how digital financial platform engagement influences financial inclusion in the Philippines and explores how financial institutions are deploying artificial intelligence (AI) in enhancing these platforms. It combines nationally representative data from the World Bank Global...

We study whether digital platforms for high-skilled professionals level the playing field or reproduce traditional gender inequalities. Using high-frequency data on physicians, we examine gender differences in labor supply, pricing, patient engagement, and platform visibility. Although the...

This paper studies the impact of the European Union's Digital Markets Act (DMA) on user search behavior and traffic to online mapping services, focusing on recent changes to Google's search results page. In January 2024, Google altered the display of location-based queries for EU users by...

Online ratings emerge from a multi-stage process that can systematically distort their informational content. We develop a unified framework decomposing the rating process into distinct components: experienced quality (driven by intrinsic quality, seller effort, and price), expectations formed...

Online ratings emerge from a multi-stage process that can systematically distort their informational content. We develop a unified framework decomposing the rating process into distinct components: experienced quality (driven by intrinsic quality, seller effort, and price), expectations formed...

Despite extensive research on migrants and the platform economy, few systematic comparisons exist between migrant and non-migrant workers across diverse migrant groups and types of platform work. This article draws on representative survey data from 14 European Union Member States, which shows...

I study how third-party firms respond when a platform owner enters its own marketplace, analyzing Apple's entries into App Store submarkets from 2016-2021. Using text embeddings to define markets and a staggered difference-in-differences design, I find that Apple's entry deters new competitors...

This study investigates the interaction effects of digital platforms and technological innovation on economic growth in China, drawing upon innovation diffusion theory (IDT) and system dynamics theory (SDT) as the theoretical foundation. Digital platforms are proxied by electronic payment and...

The FDZ Ruhr provides two campus files on real estate advertisements in Germany: the Panel Campus File (RWI-GEO-RED Panel) and a Cross-Sectional Campus File (RWI-GEO-RED Cross-Section). The datasets are extractions of the Scientific Use Files of RWI-GEO-RED. The Panel File covers the 15 largest...

In this article, we analyse the controversies leading up to and following Meta's introduction of the infamous "pay or okay model" for Facebook and Instagram users in the European Union/European Economic Area (EU/EEA) region. In particular, we focus on the central role of the Norwegian data...

This research aimed to develop a digital platform that efficiently utilizes co-learning experiences between consumers and producers and to foster the preservation of local handicrafts in a manner that is both sustainable and economically feasible. This platform combines the co-design method with...

Micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) are recognized as crucial drivers of economic development, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. The advent of digital platforms, characterized by economies of scale and significant cross-network externalities in two-sided markets,...

This article aims to understand how organizations can simultaneously manage their business model innovation and replication processes. Using an exploratory qualitative approach, we analyze Airbnb’s business model innovation and replication processes when the company launched its new value...

This study leverages the unique opportunities presented by the digitization of economic activity to investigate the impact of Thailand's 'Half and Half' program-a targeted, digital co-pay fiscal stimulus-on SMEs and consumer spending. Utilizing weekly province-level data from LINE MAN Wongnai, a...

Many low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) are experiencing a nutrition transition from traditional diets to high-energy, processed foods, increasing non-communicable disease risks. Digitalization of food systems plays a significant role in shaping this transition. This paper investigates the...

Increasing environmental pressure urges firms to decarbonize their supply chains by reducing emissions caused by freight transport. This puts intermodal freight transport (IFT) on the agenda. IFT combines the ecological advantages of rail transport with the flexibility of road transport....

This research explores how landscape cultural perception impacts the spatial distribution of homestay businesses, and highlights the increasing role of digital technology in enhancing cultural tourism experiences and optimizing homestay industry operations. Using grounded theory, the research...

Digital platforms have demonstrated their disruptive power across various domains, and an increasing number of manufacturing firms have embarked on establishing digital industrial platforms for emerging technologies like the Industrial Internet of Things. Given the technical and organizational...

Die zunehmende Digitalisierung und der wachsende Bedarf an nachhaltigen Mobilitätslösungen haben im Mobilitätssektor sowohl Chancen als auch Herausforderungen geschaffen. Insbesondere hat sich Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) als vielversprechender Ansatz herausgestellt, um verschiedene...

A critical challenge in launching successful platform business models is the design of viable revenue models. While existing frameworks and taxonomies address platform business models more broadly, conceptual clarity regarding platform revenue models remains limited, particularly in terms of how...

The article studies relations arising in connection with the use of gig contracts when working with remote workers / gig specialists within the framework of the gig economy. Therefore, the aim of the study is to determine the legal nature of gig contracts, identify their advantages and...

In today's "knowledge societies," solutions to local and global emergencies like energy crises, climate change, and public health risks increasingly depend on the public's engagement with scientific knowledge and expertise. With people increasingly using social media to engage with scientific...

The Digital Services Act (DSA) marks a paradigmatic shift in platform governance, introducing mechanisms like the Statement of Reasons (SoRs) database to foster transparency and observability of platforms' content moderation practices. This study investigates the DSA Transparency Database as a...