Dear Jonathan, a good place to start looking for eBay research is David Lucking-Reiley's Homepage - he has some interesting working papers on eBay that include good references: http://eller.arizona.edu/~reiley/cv.html#workingpapers Also very interesting, but in German, is Brinkmann, U., & Seifert, M. (2001). Face to Interface: Zum Problem der Vertrauenskonstitution im Internet am Beispiel von elektronischen Auktionen ["Face to interface": On the problem of constituting trust in the internet, as for example in electronic auctions]. Zeitschrift für Soziologie, 30, 23-47. Published work on the subject also include: Houser, D., & Wooders, J. (2001). Reputation in auctions: Theory, and evidence from eBay. University of Arizona Working Paper #00-1. Retrieved December 30, 2001, from http://bpaosf.bpa.arizona.edu/~jwooders/ebay.pdf and Lucking-Reiley, D. (2000). Auctions on the internet: Whats being auctioned, and how? The Journal of Industrial Economics, 48, 227-252. Hope to have helped, Michael At 12:01 17.04.02 -0400, you wrote:
To: air-l@aoir.org Subject: [Air-l] query for a friend: ebay Reply-To: air-l@aoir.org
Hi All,
A friend writes:
I am looking for some internet research advice and thought you might be the man. I'm working on a paper for SCS on "Ebay as Archive" and surprisingly I am finding very little intellectual work on "the world's largest marketplace." I thought that this might be the kind of topic that gets written about in web journals which I know next to nothing about. Any suggestions where I might go looking?