With the objective of providing insights and strategic recommendations to enhance the competitiveness of tourism destinations, this study endeavors to examine the nuanced impact of digital technology utilization on the travel intentions of consumers. A comprehensive theoretical framework is...

Active transparency is developed through the provision of information by public administrations. However, for this information to be reusable, it must be offered through free licenses and open formats, two characteristics present in open data. This paper aims to investigate the disclosure of...

Purpose - Based on the premise that young adults, as knowledge workers, are overstimulated by a constant bombardment of information from digital channels like social media, this paper aims to explore how the information overload, largely redundant and noisy, extracts cognitive resources from the...

Purpose - This study aimed to explore the relationship between supply chain resilience (SCR) and organizational performance (OP), with innovation (INN) serving as a mediator and information sharing (IS) acting as a moderator. Design/methodology/approach - The study comprehensively examined the...

This study explores the complex relationship between information pollution, polarisation, and democracy in Brazil, a country that has recently experienced both democratic erosion and a pivotal democratic “U-turn”. Information pollution – the dissemination of false, misleading or harmful...

Africa has significant potential to improve its climate-smart sustainable development by focusing on the Blue Economy. However, efforts to reach this potential are stymied by poor access to relevant data and knowledge due to inadequate historical investments in technology and institutional...

Policymakers face a dilemma in determining the optimal approach to regulating highly concentrated markets, especially in the context of digital government initiatives in healthcare. The current study investigates whether vendor market concentration facilitates or impedes efficiency in health...

In den letzten Monaten sind zahlreiche Nutzer/innen von X (ehemals Twitter) zu Bluesky gewechselt oder nutzen inzwischen beide Plattformen parallel. So meldeten sich bspw. Politiker/innen wie die Bundesaußenministerin Annalena Baerbock oder Marie Agnes Strack- Zimmermann sowie diverse...

Examining the gradual information diffusion hypothesis of Hong et al. (2007)in an emerging market context, we show that industry returns possess predictive information regarding the direction of the aggregate stock market in Borsa Istanbul, both in- and out-of-sample, and that the predictive...

This paper analyzes the welfare effects of private and unilateral disclosure of sensitive information in a sequential bargaining context. We consider a model where two sellers each propose a take-it-or-leave-it price for a homogeneous good to a single buyer. The buyer accepts or rejects the...

"Pendular Voting" presents a novel two-stage voting procedure: A randomly chosen citizen group votes on a proposal replacing the status quo. Depending on the outcome, a "counterproposal" ensues, that is closer to/further away from the status quo than the original proposal. All citizens vote...

The impact of history and the use of firms' past in theoretical models examining firm strategies have garnered increasing attention. Whether firms can benefit from their history imprints to facilitate innovation strategies is an increasingly important, yet under-researched, question. This study...

We exploit a nation-wide introduction of mandatory disclosure of borrowers' total credit exposures and show that sharing such information increases credit access independent of borrowers' history. Differentiating between borrowers applying to competitor banks and those reapplying to their...

The proliferation of fake news poses a growing global threat, affecting politics, individual decision-making, and economic outcomes. This column discusses how informing individuals about their susceptibility to fake news affects their willingness to pay to protect themselves from misinformation....

We conduct a clustered randomized controlled trial across 180 villages in Uttar Pradesh, India, to promote the take-up of a savings commitment product newly introduced to our study population. A random subset of participants was targeted through our promotional campaign to test whether the...