...Laurens Vandercruysse; Michaël Dooms; Caroline Buts Purpose This paper examines data protection related ex ante transaction costs borne by the private sector in the context of smart city service (SCS) public tendering in the European Union after the introduction of the General Data Protection...

... these entrepreneurs move into the formal sector. Martha Garcia-Murillo can be contacted at: mgarciam@syr.edu 04 02 2016 29 07 2016 07 10 2016 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2017 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only ICTs Informal economy Transaction costs...

... transaction cost theory can be used to explain the changing industrial structures in the application areas that the Internet-based platforms are addressing and how other theoretical frameworks can be helpful in understanding these developments. Design/methodology/approach As the sharing economy topic...

... employs transaction cost economics in analyzing the role of government in regulating electronic contracting. Due to the transaction costs arising from e‐commerce, explicit contracts between parties are usually incomplete. The paper argues that these contracts should always be backed by implicit contracts...