The sharing economy entails peer-to-peer exchanges for renting goods and services
utilizing the Internet. In this paper, we critically examine the sharing economy's prospects …

Judging by the millions of reviews left by guests on the Airbnb platform, this trusted
community marketplace for accommodations is fulfilling its mission of matching travelers with …

Platforms in the peer-to-peer sharing economy | Emerald Insight Books and journals Case
studies Expert Briefings Open Access Publish with us Advanced search Platforms in the …

The rise of the platform economy into statelike dominance over the lives of entrepreneurs,
users, and workers. The early Internet was a lawless place, populated by scam artists who …

In this research, the authors investigate the prevalence, robustness, and possible reasons
underlying the polarity of online review distributions, with the majority of the reviews at the …

We examine how the entry of gig-economy platforms influences local entrepreneurial
activity. On the one hand, such platforms may reduce entrepreneurial activity by offering …

Purpose With the popularity of social media and, recently, live streaming, internet celebrity
endorsements have become a prevalent approach to content marketing for e-commerce …

Online marketplaces have become ubiquitous, as sites such as eBay, Taobao, Uber, and
Airbnb are frequented by billions of users. The success of these marketplaces is attributed to …

The Internet has provided IS researchers with the opportunity to conduct studies with
extremely large samples, frequently well over 10,000 observations. There are many …

Firms' incentives to manufacture biased user reviews impede review usefulness. We
examine the differences in reviews for a given hotel between two sites: Expedia. com (only a …