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ArticleSocial studies of science2019

Fictions and frictions: Promises, transaction costs and the innovation of network technologies.

Udo Pesch, Georgy Ishmaev

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Article in Social studies of science, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Udo PeschFaculty of Technology, Policy & Management, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0002-8980-5205
Georgy IshmaevFaculty of Technology, Policy & Management, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

New network technologies are framed as eliminating 'transaction costs', a notion first developed in economic theory that now drives the design of market systems. However, the actual promise of the elimination of transaction costs seems unfeasible, because of a cyclical pattern in which network technologies that make that promise create processes of institutionalization that create new forms transaction costs. Nonetheless, the promises legitimize the exemption of innovations of network technologies from critical scrutiny.

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InternetCosts and Cost AnalysisTechnologyblockchaindecentralized market placesfintechnetwork technologiestechnical promisestransaction costs

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PMID30880597
PMCPMC6902903

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