Cloud service intermediation is becoming increasingly recognized as a key component of the cloud computing value chain. Existing cloud service intermediaries already offer capabilities such as integration, customization or aggregation brokerage, but in the future, enterprises will require much more sophisticated capabilities going far beyond what is available today. The types of brokerage capab...

Contract and rights management – and thus property rights protection – has gained increasing importance as a quality standard in brokerage and electronic commerce environments. Contract and rights management provides information on the legal relationships associated with digital assets, as well as intellectual property rights protection and the enforcement of rights. However, many brokerage and...

Critical nodes—or “middlemen”—have an essential place in both social and economic networks when considering the flow of information and trade. This paper extends the concept of critical nodes to directed networks. We identify strong and weak middlemen. Node contestability is introduced as a form of competition in networks; a duality between uncontested intermediaries and middlemen is establishe...

It has generally been assumed that the potential commission revenue is an important determinant of a sell-side analyst's decision of what "rms to cover and what information to publicly release. However, because stock volume has not been disaggregated on a brokerage-"rm level, uncertainty remains regarding the economic importance of the relation between analyst coverage and brokerage-"rm volume....

I hereby declare that I am the sole author of this thesis. This is a true copy of the thesis, including any required final revisions, as accepted by my examiners. I understand that my thesis may be made electronically available to the public. The importance of social capital can be characterized by a well-known quote: " it's not just what you know, but whom you know". Firms with rich social cap...

BACKGROUND Bridges, brokers and boundary spanners facilitate transactions and the flow of information between people or groups who either have no physical or cognitive access to one another, or alternatively, who have no basis on which to trust each other. The health care sector is a context that is rich in isolated clusters, such as silos and professional "tribes," in need of connectivity. It ...

This paper examines how sell-side equity research companies (brokerage houses) responded to the increased scrutiny of their equity research business regarding conflicts of interest driven by investment bank relationships. This scrutiny materialized in new regulations adopted by the Self-Regulatory Organizations NASD and NYSE, affecting all brokerage houses, and in the Global Settlement, affecti...

Valente and Fujimoto (2010) proposed a measure of brokerage in networks based on Granovetter's classic work on the strength of weak ties. Their paper identified the need for finding node-based measures of brokerage that consider the entire network structure, not just a node's local environment. The measures they propose, aggregating the average change in cohesion for a node's links, has several...

Business model innovation is recognized as a key process for strengthening firms' performance in situations of strong competitive pressure and environmental changes. This driven by intra‐organizational advice networks between managers, which exchange different types based on organizational learning mechanisms such cognitive search (how to conceptualize create novel business model) experiential ...

The two leading online consumer-to-consumer platforms use very different revenue models: eBay.com in the United States uses a brokerage model in which sellers pay eBay on a transaction basis, whereas Taobao.com in China uses an advertising model in which sellers can use the basic platform service for free and pay Taobao for advertising services to increase their exposure. This paper studies how...