Article
Management
Shota Ichihashi, Byung-Cheol Kim
Summary: This article studies competition for consumer attention, where platforms may sacrifice service quality for attention. The article provides conditions under which increased competition can harm consumers, especially in cases of scarce attention. Restricting consumer platform usage can improve consumer welfare.
MANAGEMENT SCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Business
Henrique Ribeiro Castro, Dario A. L. M. Sant'Anna
Summary: This study focuses on the effects of exclusive agreements on complementors' performance in the video game industry, and finds that exclusive game titles published by third parties perform worse than those published by in-house studios, especially on platforms with higher competition.
TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING AND SOCIAL CHANGE
(2023)
Article
Business, Finance
Xiaohong Guo, Yongqian Tu
Summary: This study examines the impact of digital finance (DF) on carbon intensity (CI) using spatial econometrics based on panel data of 284 prefecture-level cities in China from 2011 to 2020. The results demonstrate an inverted U-shaped relationship between DF and CI. DF has a positive spatial externality on CI, affecting both local CI and surrounding areas. The positive effect is more pronounced under reasonable financial supervision.
FINANCE RESEARCH LETTERS
(2023)
Article
Biochemical Research Methods
Andres Puerto, Jose L. Bella, Carmen Lopez-Fernandez, Angel Gracia-Cabanes, Mercedes Carrascosa
Summary: Photovoltaic optoelectronic tweezers are a useful platform with potential applications in optical manipulation and nanotechnology, with recent developments expanding their capabilities to the manipulation of polar droplets in biology. Experiments have shown successful manipulation of cells and macromolecules contained inside the droplets, showing the sensing capabilities of the platform and demonstrating potential in biotechnology.
BIOMEDICAL OPTICS EXPRESS
(2021)
Article
Business
Alessio Cozzolino, Leonardo Corbo, Paolo Aversa
Summary: This paper explores how incumbent producers in the global digital advertising ecosystem pivot between competitive and cooperative strategies in response to challenges from digital entrant platforms, revealing a process characterized by three sequential phases: selective cooperation, allied competition, and selective coopetition.
JOURNAL OF BUSINESS RESEARCH
(2021)
Article
Business, Finance
Bo Wang, Suli Zheng
Summary: This research explores the factors that shape investor sentiment in the financial market by incorporating information manipulation into the micro-structure. The model suggests that insiders inflate the fundamentals to boost market prices, with manipulation costs acting as a noisy signal or sentiment. The level of manipulation is influenced by market supply elasticity and transparency. The study highlights insider manipulation as a potential source of market sentiment.
FINANCE RESEARCH LETTERS
(2023)
Article
Business
Johannes Loh, Tobias Kretschmer
Summary: This research examines the role of volunteer communities in providing competitive advantage to platforms and finds that a stronger competitive position is associated with higher activity and contributions. Additionally, highly productive volunteers play a crucial role in platform success.
STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT JOURNAL
(2023)
Article
Law
Lanfang Fei
Summary: China's practice on promoting interoperability on digital platforms in the field of social media and mobile payment scenarios shows limited convenience for consumers and favors competitive platforms rather than facilitating the entry of small operators. The administrative forces' promotion of interoperability grants a competitive advantage to state-owned enterprises and reduces incentives for existing platforms to innovate and expand. These results validate international concerns about the limited impact of mandatory interoperability in breaking the network blocking effect of internet platforms.
COMPUTER LAW & SECURITY REVIEW
(2023)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Cinzia Bellone, Fabio Naselli, Fabio Andreassi
Summary: The global pandemic of 2020 has ushered in a new digital age, shifting the balance of physical and virtual interactions in favor of the latter. This has led to an increase in both the quantity and quality of digital data, enhancing the value of qualitative multi-data analyses. Additionally, new digital technologies have the potential to generate more democratic and participatory governance through sentiment analysis and anonymous data collection from social platforms.
Review
Biochemical Research Methods
Jakub Novotny, Andreas Lenshof, Thomas Laurell
Summary: Acoustofluidics, the field that involves the interaction of ultrasonic standing waves with fluids and microparticles, has gained increasing interest in microfluidic applications. Integrated systems have been developed for contactless manipulation of cells and particles based on acoustic standing waves, with studies showing the beneficial effects of acoustic forces on cells in biomaterial manipulation.
Article
Economics
Jens-Uwe Franck, Martin Peitz
Summary: Digital platforms have significantly affected various product markets and have become increasingly important in global economies. Some platforms have gained significant market power. Economists use indicators to assess market power, and this article examines the usefulness of these indicators in the context of digital platforms. It particularly focuses on evaluating entrenched market power and the role of potential competition in constraining this power.
OXFORD REVIEW OF ECONOMIC POLICY
(2023)
Article
Engineering, Manufacturing
Zenan Zhou, Xiang Wan
Summary: This study investigates the disruptive power of the mobile digital sharing economy on the road freight logistics industry, revealing that emerging information technologies impact the profitability and stock performance of traditional freight companies, with freight arrangement companies experiencing stable profitability and large trucking companies seeing increased profitability with minimal stock price fluctuations.
PRODUCTION AND OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT
(2022)
Review
Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence
Margarita Rodriguez-Ibanez, Antonio Casanez-Ventura, Felix Castejon-Mateos, Pedro-Manuel Cuenca-Jimenez
Summary: Sentiment analysis has been proven to be valuable in assessing public opinion in various fields. This paper proposes a comprehensive review of sentiment analysis in social networks, exploring new aspects such as temporal dynamics, causal relationships, and industry applications. The importance of temporal characterization and causal effects in sentiment analysis is emphasized, as well as their applications in different domains.
EXPERT SYSTEMS WITH APPLICATIONS
(2023)
Article
Operations Research & Management Science
Jianqiang Zhang, Qingning Cao, Xiuli He
Summary: This paper explains the counter-intuitive practice of online platforms voluntarily referring customers to their direct competitors by developing a game-theoretic model. The study finds that when platforms and sellers are integrated, competitor referral will intensify competition and thus no platform is willing to refer its competitor voluntarily. However, when platforms serve as independent marketplaces for sellers, they may voluntarily refer their competitors to address the issue of double marginalization. The research also shows that if two platforms serve one common seller and the seller does not charge discriminated prices for the same product, referral can also be applied.
ANNALS OF OPERATIONS RESEARCH
(2023)
Article
Computer Science, Information Systems
Jiaming Fang, Ling Wen, Haiyan Ren, Chao Wen
Summary: In this study, a hybrid sentiment analysis approach is used to examine the impact of service quality dimensions on online physician selection. The results demonstrate that technical and functional quality cues are important market signals for patients and that their effects are contingent on disease market competition intensity and disease risk.
INFORMATION PROCESSING & MANAGEMENT
(2022)
