This paper uses a two-sided market model to study if lastmile access providers (ISPs), should charge content providers (CPs), who derive revenue from advertisers, for the right to access ISP’s end-users. We compare two-sided pricing (ISPs could charge CPs for content delivery) with one-sided pricing (neutrality regulations prohibit such charges). Our analysis indicates that number of CPs is low...

This paper attempts to reconcile the risk-bearing characterization of entrepreneurs with the stylized fact that entrepreneurs exhibit conventional risk aversion profiles. We propose that the disparity arises from confounding two distinct dimensions of uncertainty: demand uncertainty and ability uncertainty. We further propose that entrepreneurs will be risk averse with respect to demand uncerta...

We study the dynamics of market entry following mergers and acquisitions (M&As), and the behavior of recent entrants in supplying output that might be withdrawn by the consolidating firms. The data, drawn from the banking industry, suggest that M&As are associated with subsequent increases in the probability of entry. The estimates suggest that M&As explain more than 20% of entry in metropolita...

GQM+Strategies is an approach that aligns the business goals at each level of an organization to strategies to achieve overall business goals and assesses the achievement of such goals. Strategies are extracted from business goals based on rationales (contexts and assumptions). Using the proposed approach, which refines the GQM+Strategies model by extracting rationales based on the analysis of ...

In developing industries rms have to decide whether and when to enter the market depending on the state of demand, existing rms in the industry, and the rm's capabilities. This paper investigates a model of increasing demand, in which rms decide when to enter the market anticipating the strategic behavior of other potential entrants, and the e ects of entry on future potential entrants. The pap...

This paper explores how organizational structure shapes firm evolution. We examine how structure influences the way firms process information from the environment and between separate units of the firm. We propose that the information infrastructure of a firm acts as a lens, focusing the firm on information from some parts of the environment and leading it to filter information from other parts...