Saunak Basu (Information Systems) chaired the session "Gig Economy and Social Media Research: Precarity, Policy, and Platform Governance: Unintended Consequences in Digital and Institutional Ecosystems " and presented a research paper titled “Shock to Strategy: How Airbnb Hosts Adapt to Platform Evolution and Policy Pressure” at the 2025 Decision Sciences Institute (DSI) Conference held in Orlando, Florida. The study examines how micro-entrepreneurs on digital platforms respond to systemic disruptions, shifting platform policies, and regulatory shocks. Using a five-year panel of Airbnb data from New York, San Francisco, and Berlin, the research introduces a novel Host Resilience Index (HRI) to measure adaptive behavior among hosts and provides new insights into platform governance, digital entrepreneurship, and the unintended consequences of policy interventions.
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