Digital platforms have become a dominant organizational form for socio-economic activity, enabling new modes of value creation, exchange, and innovation at scale. The sharing economy allows individuals and organizations to exchange underutilized assets or resources for monetary gains at low transactional costs. Under this broad umbrella, platform-mediated value creation can stem from user-owned assets (e.g., Airbnb and Uber), or take place through the renting of company-owned resources (e.g., CitiBike and Lime). Fueling the explosion of the sharing economy are multi-sided digital platforms which, by connecting actors throughout the world for little marginal cost, facilitate interactions, transactions, and innovation in a seamless fashion across a variety of contexts: finance, entertainment, software development, dating, and transportation, to name a few. Many of these emerging business models would not have been possible without the growing societal transition into distributed modes of innovation and production, e.g., in the context of mobile apps, that leverage the capability of digital platforms and technological infrastructures to orchestrate the coordination of distributed and heterogeneous individuals and organizations. The sharing economy has also driven new ways of working because these platforms connect workers to people who will pay for tasks to be completed, as exemplified on Uber, DoorDash, and Upwork. Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly being used to coordinate and manage these connections, shape platform governance, as well as efficiently manage operations and pricing. The continued integration of AI into sharing economy apps gives rise to issues surrounding algorithmic management, trust, privacy, and security as AI coordinates and controls, and in doing so absorbs massive quantities of data.

Track Chairs
Thomas Kude, University of Bamberg
Tabitha L. James, Virginia Tech
Cheng Zhang, Fudan University
Steven L. Johnson, University of Virginia

Schedule
2026
Monday, December 14th
12:00 AM

An Empirical Investigation of Algorithmic Failure in the App Store

Alireza Hajighasemi, ESSEC Business School
Harris Kyriakou, ESSEC Business School
Thomas Huber, ESSEC

12:00 AM

Attracting Complementors to Social Mission Digital Platforms – A Convention Theory Perspective

Eva Isabel Hoffmeister, LMU Munich School of Management
Simon Paul Engert, LMU Munich School of Management
Markus Uhlmann, Universität Kassel
Thomas Hess, LMU Munich School of Management

12:00 AM

Badges of Influence: How Digital Platforms Induce Decoy-Like Effects to Steer Consumer Choice

Sarah Ben Messaoud, University of Passau
Jan Kraemer, University of Passau

12:00 AM

Equal Access, Unequal Outcomes: Gender-Specific Challenges on Online Labor Platforms

Tatjana Hödl, University of Bern
Josephine Moritz, University of Münster

12:00 AM

Homophily or Heterophily? The Janus Face of Collaboration Tie Formation: Evidence from Polyadic Interaction Network Analysis

Yu Xu, University of Georgia
Ling Xue, University of Georgia

12:00 AM

Interoperability versus Data Portability for Fostering Competition

Mahdi Kiaee, University of Calgary
Hooman Hidaji, University of Calgary

12:00 AM

Knowledge Diversity and User Innovation in Online Communities: A Machine Learning-Enabled Analysis

Kai Hartmayer, TU Darmstadt
Diana Cervera, TU Darmstadt

12:00 AM

Navigating the Ethical Challenges of Online Labor Platforms: A Case Study

Sampsa Suvivuo, Aalto University School of Business
Tapani Rinta-Kahila, Hanken School of Economics
Virpi Kristiina Tuunainen, Aalto University School of Business

12:00 AM

Political Bias in Crowdchecking and an Algorithmic Remedy

Adam Shenxiong Li, University of Rochester, Simon Business School
Yang Gao, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign

12:00 AM

Ranking Authority and Knowledge Production: How Ranking Design Shapes Participation on Digital Platforms

Jiayi Pan, Peking University
Yipu Deng, University of Hong Kong
Sameer Borwankar, McGill University

12:00 AM

Safety as Strategy: Consumer Protection and Platform Leakage

Ehsan Sabzizadeh, Tilburg University
Ulrich Laitenberger, Tilburg University
Florian Pethig, Tilburg University
Nikolay Aleksandrov Tonev, Tilburg University

12:00 AM

Same Space, Different Sparks: Speech-Act Activation and Intervention in Online Support

Jun Tan, University of Washington
Xingchen Xu, Michael G. Foster School of Business, University of Washington
Lijia Ma, UNC Charlotte

12:00 AM

Same Superstar, Different Spillovers: Product-Level Market Success and Inter-Complementor Spillovers

Jasper (Zhenpeng) He, Iowa State University
Chen Zhang, Iowa State University
Abhay Mishra, Information Systems and Business Analytics

12:00 AM

Should E-commerce Platforms Neutralize Emotion in Dispute? A Dual-Pathway Model of Perceived Fairness in Crowd Judging

Zengxi Li, City University of Hong Kong
Wei Thoo Yue, City University of Hong Kong
Zach W. Y. Lee, City University of Hong Kong

12:00 AM

Siphoning and Supplementing? Donor Reallocation and Match Funding Policy Design on a Crowdfunding Platform

Nachiketa Sahoo, Boston University

12:00 AM

Supplier Scale, Competition, and Consumer Experience in Platforms

Xueyun Luo, Cornell University
Chris Forman, Cornell University
Mohammad Rahman, Purdue University

12:00 AM

The Effect of Content Coherence on Content Consumption in User-Generated Content Platforms

Xinyi Zhang, National University of Singapore (NUS)
Jiarui Wu, National University of Singapore
Khim Yong Goh, National University of Singapore

12:00 AM

The Ripple Effect: Analyzing Ecosystem-wide Value Spillovers from Digital Giants’ M&A

Samuel Keil, Technical University Darmstadt
Constantin Peter Schick, Technical University Darmstadt
Martin Sternal, Technical University Darmstadt
Dirk Schiereck, Technical University Darmstadt

12:00 AM

Turning Followers into Patrons: How Social Media Value Converts Followers into Subscribers

Sara Alida Volkmer, Technical University of Munich
Jasper David Brüns, Technical University of Munich
Jan Klostermann, University of Cologne
Martin Meissner, Technical University of Munich

12:00 AM

When Anyone Can Build, Who Evaluates? Use-Side Governance in AI Skill Ecosystems

Stefanos Poulidis, INSEAD
Leonard Boussioux, University of Washington

12:00 AM

When Generative AI Reshapes Platform Content Ecosystems: Evidence from Online Investment Community

Xiaochen Liu, Beijing Jiaotong University
Xianjiao Wu, East China University of Science and Technology
Jiarui Zhang, Beijing Jiaotong University
Lingfei Deng, Sun Yat-Sen University
Qiang Ye, University of Science and Technology of China

12:00 AM

When Models Arrive Before Papers: Temporal Coupling in Open AI Knowledge Production

Yue Li, NanjinUniversity
Lele Kang, Nanjing University
Qiqi Jiang, Copenhagen Business School

12:00 AM

Who Rises Online? Social Stratification Logics Across Social Media Platforms

Sherae Daniel, University of Cincinnati
Liwei Chen, University of Cincinnati
Zhexing Zhao, University of Cincinnati
Anh Vo, University of Cincinnati
Chau Trinh, University of Cincinnati
Brian Fitzgerald, University of Limerick

12:00 AM

Who Stays When AI Answers? Core-Periphery Resilience in Online Knowledge Communities

Leping Li, University of Lausanne
Ruoxi Zhang, EPFL
Shitao Zeng, University of Zurich
Yash Raj Shrestha, University of Lausanne

12:00 AM