To paraphrase a famous Belgian surrealist artist: “This post is not a post“. More precisely, it is not a post yet, but it should become one once all your comments will be pieced together. My goal, in a very lazy educational way, is to build a case study of a specific multisided platform through crowdsourcing (which […]
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When sheiks and cheques shake the media
By 26 March 2014 18
A media bias is defined by Wikipedia as the bias or perceived bias of journalists and news producers within the mass media in the selection of events and stories that are reported and how they are covered. The first source of media bias that comes to mind is political. It is indeed often perceived […]
What drives self-regulation in the nascent P2P “ride-sharing” industry?
By 18 March 2014 33
The American company Uber has been all over the news in Belgium over the last three weeks. Uber connects passengers with drivers of vehicles for ride-sharing services; it appears therefore as a typical two-sided platform. As Evans (2011) explains it, a business opportunity emerges for a two-sided (or multi-sided) platform when three conditions are met: There are distinct […]
How do comparison shopping sites make a living?
By 6 March 2014 23
Comparison shopping sites, also known as shopping robots or shopbots, have been around for about two decades. Sites such as Shopping.com, Shopper.com, PriceGrabber, Shopzilla, Vergelijk or Kelkoo help us find goods or services that are sold online by providing us with loads of information (products sold, price charged, quality, delivery and payment methods, etc.). As they […]
What is the future of BlackBerry?
By 20 September 2013 4
This is the second post adapted from term papers that my master students submitted in June 2013. This post (originally written by Loïc Esselen, Zhang Hong, Sebastian Malmport and Vianney Picavet) has been polished and complemented by Olivier Simons. Once Research In Motion (RIM), the Canadian company that makes the BlackBerry, has been market leader in […]
Building on Batibouw to understand two-sided platforms (2)
By 25 August 2013 0
I start here a series of posts that are adapted from term papers that my master students submitted in June 2013. I have asked Olivier Simons, a former student of mine, to polish these papers and complement them with his own insights. This post (originally written by Thibaut Debruxelles, Pascaline Renard, Daniel Scurtu and Marielle […]
Building on Batibouw to understand two-sided platforms
By 7 March 2012 42
In many economic and social situations, two groups of agents may interact through one or several intermediaries and prefer a larger pool of trading partners. Thus the interaction between the two groups exhibits indirect (or cross-side) network effects: agents of one group are better off when the number of agents in the other group increases […]
A tale of Sheiks and cheques
By 5 March 2012 40
The Bulletin is a magazine for expatriates moving to or living in Belgium. In its issue of July 10, 2008, the magazine picked up a story that had already been reported in the Belgian and international press. The article described a police raid at the fourth floor of the Conrad Brussels hotel, which had been […]