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Disintermediation and Its Mitigation in Online Two-sided Platforms: Evidence from Airbnb

open access: yes, 2022
Disintermediation, where providers and customers transact bypassing an intermediary, has challenged the business model and dwindled profits of the multi-billion-dollar platform economy. Despite the platforms’ efforts to mitigate disintermediation, little
Foutz, Natasha Z   +2 more
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Inflation and Disintermediation

open access: yes
Replication kit for "Inflation and Disintermediation" by Isha Agarwal and Matthew BaronTHIS DATASET IS ARCHIVED AT DANS/EASY, BUT NOT ACCESSIBLE HERE.
Baron, M (via Mendeley Data)
core   +2 more sources

Disruptively regional: How women in Regional, Rural and Remote communities ‘imagine’ with and through digital and social media

open access: yesSmart Cities and Regional Development Journal
Too often, regional, rural and remote cities and towns are configured in deficit to the metropolis.  As local newspapers have closed, how are local stories gathered, understood, published and disseminated?  The objective of this article probes how women
Tara BRABAZON, Jacqueline EWART
doaj   +1 more source

Peasant Movements and the Fourth Transformation in Mexico: What Does the Theory of Collective Empowerment Tell Us?

open access: yesJournal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines peasant and Indigenous movements in Mexico since Morena's rise to power in 2018 through the lens of collective empowerment theory, a theory of political‐cultural formation. Beyond offering an empirical assessment, the theory is refined and formalized through an analysis of these movements and their relationship to ...
Gerardo Otero
wiley   +1 more source

Financial Disintermediation in the 1990s : Implications on Monetary Policy in Malaysia [PDF]

open access: yes
The increased financial disintermediation that characterizes the Malaysia's financial system since the early 1990s has contributed towards changes in the dynamics of monetary transmission mechanism.
Tan, Anthony C.K., Goh, Kim-Leng
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Inter‐platform ecosystems

open access: yesStrategic Management Journal, Volume 47, Issue 7, Page 1840-1877, July 2026.
Abstract Research Summary We extend ecosystem theory to cases in which platforms are complementors to each other: inter‐platform ecosystems. Analyzing web traffic data on 241 European platforms, we identify and characterize demand‐side inter‐platform ecosystems, and propose a theory of why they emerge.
Bruno Carballa‐Smichowski   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Beyond the Binary of Formal and Informal: Negotiating Hybrid Land Control by Chinese Banana Entrepreneurs in Laos

open access: yesJournal of Agrarian Change, Volume 26, Issue 3, July 2026.
ABSTRACT As transnational land investments continue to expand across the Global South, land governance in many settings is shifting from largely informal arrangements towards greater formalization. However, we know less about how entrepreneurs sustain and rework land control as host states tighten regulation and introduce new formal requirements and ...
Ben Fan, Xiaobo Hua, Yasuyuki Kono
wiley   +1 more source

The economics of cash shortage [PDF]

open access: yes
Many economies of the former Soviet Union have experienced cash shortages: people with demand and savings deposits in the banking system are unable to convert them into currency. Usually this is attributed to the common use of the ruble.
Conway, Patrick
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Disintermediation of Inter-Blockchain Transactions

open access: yesCoRR, 2016
Different versions of peer-to-peer electronic cash exist as data represented by separate blockchains. Payments between such systems cannot be sent directly from one party to another without going through a financial institution. Bitcoin provided part of the solution but its utility is limited to intra-blockchain transactions. The benefits are lost if a
S. Matthew English   +2 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Description, Articulation and Limitations in the Social Theory of Insurance

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, Volume 77, Issue 3, Page 496-506, June 2026.
ABSTRACT There have been surprisingly few sustained efforts to explain or theorise the role insurance plays in society. Even the most theoretically inflected insurance scholarship, emanating from governmentality and Actor Network Theory scholarship, tends to be grounded in empirical cases, set in particular periods and places, and it is often ...
Liz McFall
wiley   +1 more source

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