Students of social inequality have noted the presence of mechanisms militating toward
cumulative advantage and increasing inequality. Social scientists have established that …

Purpose–The purpose of this article is to integrate existing theoretical explanations for
innovation diffusion across the disciplines of marketing, innovation and sociology research …

Platform Ecosystems is a hands-on guide that offers a complete roadmap for designing and
orchestrating vibrant software platform ecosystems. Unlike software products that are …

The burgeoning of ibusiness firms in the modern digital economy challenges the received
internationalization theory. Given that ibusinesses such as social networking sites create …

Switching costs and network effects bind customers to vendors if products are incompatible,
locking customers or even markets in to early choices. Lock-in hinders customers from …

Networks pervade social and economic life, and they play a prominent role in explaining a
huge variety of social and economic phenomena. Standard economic theory did not give …

The literature on equilibrium behavior of customers and servers in queuing systems is rich.
However, there is no comprehensive survey of this field. Moreover, what has been published …

Despite the traditional predominance of sociology and political science within studies of
media and communications, interest in economic aspects of media has grown enormously …

We propose a new definition of the creative industries in terms of social network markets.
The extant definition of the creative industries is based on an industrial classification that …

The Company of Strangers shows us the remarkable strangeness, and fragility, of our
everyday lives. This completely revised and updated edition includes a new chapter …