Travellers often combine transport services from different firms to form trip chains: e.g. first taking a train and then a bus. Integration of different forms of public and private transport into a single service is gaining attention with the concept of Mobility as a Service (MaaS). Usually the...

The exclusive rights enjoyed by a copyright owner to reproduce his protected work in any material form, including any permanent or temporary storage in electronic form will have a direct impact on the lawful activities of an internet service provider (ISP). Any transmission of temporary copies...

The term independently-hosted is used here to describe online publishing practices that utilise the World Wide Web (hereafter the Web) as a decentralised socio-technical system, where individuals and communities operate as the owners or controllers of the online infrastructures they use in order...

Context What do Uber Ride, Airbnb Lodging, and eBay Marketplace have in common? All three platform business models generate extensive network effects (NfX) between providers and consumers. Network effects are the magic force that turns a single taxi service agency into a provider for an entire...

Google Scholar has become an important player in the scholarly economy. Whereas typical academic publishers sell bibliometrics, analytics and ranking products, Alphabet, through Google Scholar, provides "free" tools for academic search and scholarly evaluation that have made it central to...

The telecommunications market has evolved into product-differentiatedmarkets due to the varying quality of data services. Earlier work has takenonly the price into account and has not considered quality, which is, however,an essential factor. We provide a supply-demand framework considering...

Online dating has recently become the most common way for new couples to meet, with three-in-ten Americans having used dating apps, and revenues from dating apps swelling to more than five billion annually. The majority of these dating apps earn revenue via subscription based pricing, where...

Purpose - The literature review aims to facilitate a broader understanding of on-demand service platform operations management and proposes potential research directions for scholars. Design/methodology/approach - This study searches four databases for relevant literature on on-demand service...

Purpose - This study aims to understand if an online dating app is considered an acceptable channel to conduct advertising activities and understand the differences between Generations X, Y and Z for such acceptance. Design/methodology/approach - A total of 411 Tinder users' reactions were...

The study investigates a business model transformation of a service provider on a sharing economy platform (Airbnb) using a dynamic business model perspective. The study takes an inductive approach and draws on the set of semi-structured interviews, observations and other sources from the...

This paper reviews the Digital Services Act (DSA), a package of new rules for platforms proposed by the European Commission late last year. The paper takes stock of current and future situations for rules on content moderation and takedowns, and discusses how the DSA addresses the balance...

Rapido is the bike taxi service provider, which connects travelers to drivers for short-distance drives. It is fundamentally a bike taxi form of Uber, a lot less expensive and more helpful in rush hour traffic as monstrous as Bengaluru’s. India’s biggest Bike Taxi service provider and...

Exceptionally accessible and versatile web hosting can be an intricate and costly recommendation. Conventional adaptable web architectures have not just expected to execute complex answers to guarantee significant degrees of dependability. However, they have likewise required a precise traffic...

56K modems were introduced under two competing incompatible standards. We show the importance of competition between Internet Service Providers in the adoption process. We show that ISPs were less likely to adopt the technology that more competitors adopted. This result is particularly striking...

The mobile app economy comprises two distinct platform markets through which app developers make revenue: app platform and ad platform markets. App sales are facilitated by app platforms, whereas advertising matching is intermediated by ad platforms. Cross-market platform competition exists,...

An increasing amount of research papers is devoted in modeling Web functions. This effort is coming from many diverse disciplines like Computer Science, Economics, Mathematics, Social studies and others. At this stage, a set of definitions concerning the basic Web functions is needed in order to...

Many analysts anticipate a need to redefine universal service to account for Internet-related services and other combinations of communication and computing. This concern motivates a study of the geographic spread of the commercial Internet Service Provider (ISP) market suppliers of Internet...

Few issues have aroused more interest of late than the role of “platforms” in the economy. The Supreme Court has recently made the what is likely to be the first of many pronouncements on antitrust analysis of platforms, and major platform firms that dominate the economy – Google, Amazon,...

This case study is for college students in an e-commerce or business strategy class who are interested in studying the role of social media, search engines, Google Analytics, Google AdSense, and mobile technology in building and maintaining a successful conventional website. The aim of the case...

La crisis causada por la pandemia de enfermedad por coronavirus (COVID-19) tuvo un gran impacto en la economía y los mercados laborales regionales durante 2020. El año finalizó con una caída del PIB del 7,1%, que se tradujo en una marcada pérdida de empleos y un aumento de la tasa de...

This paper analyzes the effects of net neutrality regulation on investment incentives for Internet service providers (ISPs) and content providers (CPs), and their implications for social welfare. We show that the ISP's decision on the introduction of discrimination across content depends on a...

The object of this paper is to discuss on-line intermediation from the perspective of two-sided markets. It builds a simple model of the intermediation activity when trading partners are involved in a commercial relationship and uses it to illustrate some of the results that emerge in the...

This study analyzes the service offerings of Internet Service Providers (ISPs), the commercial suppliers of Internet access in the United States. It presents data on the services of 2089 ISPs in the summer of 1998. By this time, the Internet access industry had undergone its first wave of entry...

Article 20 of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) gave consumers in the European Union the right to port their personal data between digital service providers. We critically assess the economic implications of this new right in the light of the extant economic literature and with a...

The economic literature on online auctions is rapidly growing because of the enormous amount of freely available field data. Moreover, numerous innovations in auction-design features on platforms such as eBay have created excellent research opportunities. In this article, we survey the...

In their zeal to curb Big Tech, regulators are crafting legislative reforms that make distinctions between Internet services based on size. A crucial Internet law, Section 230, is among the targets for such reforms. This essay discusses the nuanced considerations that regulators should address...

The concept of Electronic service (eservice) represents one important application of utilizing the use of Information and communication technologies in several areas. E-services are explained as:…deeds, efforts or performances whose delivery is transmitted by information technology. Benefits...

A buyer engages a procurement service provider (PSP) to short-list pre-screened suppliers for final selection. The PSP can exert costly effort to include promising candidates that have a higher probability to be deemed qualified by the buyer. The buyer optimizes two key decision variables in her...

It is accepted that service quality is important to the success of all service industries. In order to remain competitive businesses are increasing and improving their online service. With the popularity of the internet, innovation in technology and the changing needs of customers, online...

We revisit the economics of “platform envelopment strategies,” whereby a dominant platform (the enveloper) operating in a multi-sided market (the origin market) enters a second multi-sided market (the target market) by leveraging the data obtained from its shared user relationships. In...

The Internet did not create the ad-supported business model. However, a larger variety of ad-supported services have arisen and flourished online because the Internet's functional and economic characteristics have made the ad-supported business model attractive in many online contexts. The...

In der gegenwärtigen COVID-19 Krise wurde die wirtschaftliche und gesellschaftliche Rolle von modernen und leistungsfähigen Internetinfrastrukturen und darauf basierenden Diensten besonders deutlich. So haben eine Reihe von Diensten, etwa im Bereich der Ausbildung ("e-learning" und...