Digital economics

A Goldfarb, C Tucker - Journal of economic literature, 2019 - aeaweb.org
Digital technology is the representation of information in bits. This technology has reduced
the cost of storage, computation, and transmission of data. Research on digital economics …

Unemployment and worker participation in the gig economy: Evidence from an online labor market

N Huang, G Burtch, Y Hong… - Information Systems …, 2020 - pubsonline.informs.org
The gig economy has low barriers to entry, enabling flexible work arrangements and
allowing workers to engage in contingent employment, whenever, and in some cases, such …

Are large language models a threat to digital public goods? evidence from activity on stack overflow

M del Rio-Chanona, N Laurentsyeva… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Large language models like ChatGPT efficiently provide users with information about
various topics, presenting a potential substitute for searching the web and asking people for …

Platform governance with algorithm-based content moderation: An empirical study on Reddit

Q He, Y Hong, TS Raghu - Information Systems Research, 2024 - pubsonline.informs.org
With increasing volumes of participation in social media and online communities, content
moderation has become an integral component of platform governance. Volunteer (human) …

RESILIENCE IN THE OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE COMMUNITY: HOW PANDEMIC AND UNEMPLOYMENT SHOCKS INFLUENCE CONTRIBUTIONS TO OTHERS' …

OS Malgonde, TJV Saldanha, S Mithas - MIS Quarterly, 2023 - search.ebscohost.com
Contributions by individual open source software (OSS) community members are the
lifeblood of the OSS projects that power today's digital economy and are important for the …

Large language models reduce public knowledge sharing on online Q&A platforms

RM del Rio-Chanona, N Laurentsyeva, J Wachs - PNAS nexus, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Large language models (LLMs) are a potential substitute for human-generated data and
knowledge resources. This substitution, however, can present a significant problem for the …

Estimating Career Benefits from Online Community Leadership: Evidence from Stack Exchange Moderators

J Forderer, G Burtch - Management Science, 2024 - pubsonline.informs.org
Many IT professionals seek to improve their job prospects by engaging as leaders of online
communities, for example, by serving as a moderator or admin. We investigate whether such …

Surviving in global online labor markets for IT services: A geo-economic analysis

I Kanat, Y Hong, TS Raghu - Information systems research, 2018 - pubsonline.informs.org
Global online labor markets (OLMs) lower the barriers to entry and enable global
competition for information technology (IT) services from providers around the world …

Influence of narcissistic CEOs on corporate social responsibility (CSR) choices: The moderating role of the legal environment

Q Gao, L Gao, D Long, Y Wang - Psychology Research and …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Purpose During recent years, there has been a growing interest in CSR across disciplines.
Various scholars document that Chief Executive Officer (CEO) narcissism is an important …

Does working from home work? A natural experiment from lockdowns

L Shen - European Economic Review, 2023 - Elsevier
Using tracked changes from a large open-source software platform, this paper studies how
working from home affected the output of individuals working in tech. The basis of the natural …