Giddens' structuration theory (ST) offers an account of social life in terms of social practices developing and changing over time and space, which makes no attempt to direct...
: We consider two mechanisms to procure differentiated goods: the request for quote and an English auction with bidding credits. In the request for quote, each seller submits a pri...
Commercial systems such as Flickr display interesting photos from their collection as an interaction mechanism for sampling the collection. It purely relies on social activity anal...
: To date, one of the main aims of the World Wide Web has been to provide users with information. In addition to private homepages, large professional information providers, includ...
We report on an extensive series of highly controlled human subject experiments in networked trade. Our point of departure is a simple and well-studied bipartite network exchange ...