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作者：Gopinath, Shyam; Chintagunta, Pradeep K.; Venkataraman, Sriram
作者单位：Utah System of Higher Education; University of Utah; University of Chicago; University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
摘要：We measure the effects of pre- and postrelease blog volume, blog valence, and advertising on the performance of 75 movies in 208 geographic markets in the United States. We attribute the variation in blog effects across markets to differences in demographic characteristics of markets combined with differences across demographic groups in their access and exposure to blogs as well as their responsiveness conditional on access. We study the effects of prerelease factors on opening day box office...
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作者：Yildirim, Pinar; Gal-Or, Esther; Geylani, Tansev
作者单位：University of Pennsylvania; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); University of Pittsburgh
摘要：In this study, we investigate newspapers' decision to expand their product lines by adding online editions that incorporate user-generated content. We demonstrate that such product line extensions mitigate the extent of slanting in print media. The results also show that as the extent of discretion of users to generate online content increases, print versions of newspapers become more polarized. Furthermore, adding online editions results in reduced profits for newspapers as the additional pro...
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作者：Dhar, Tirtha
作者单位：Ontario Tech University
摘要：In this paper, we show that slotting fees can be part of an equilibrium solution if per-unit downstream margin is smaller than the per-unit upstream margin. In recent literature, a similar margin-based argument is made by Klein and Wright (2007), whereas intense downstream retail competition coupled with high upstream margin causes upstream manufacturers to offer slotting fees for promotional shelf space. In this paper, we generalize this argument and show that it is possible to have the margi...
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作者：August, Terrence; Niculescu, Marius Florin
作者单位：University of California System; University of California San Diego; University System of Georgia; Georgia Institute of Technology
摘要：Software producers are making greater use of customer error reporting to discover defects and improve the quality of their products. We study how software development differences among producers (e.g., varying levels of process maturity) and software class and functionality differences (e.g., operating system versus productivity software) affect how these producers coordinate software release timing and pricing to optimally harness error reporting contributions from users. In settings where pr...
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作者：Chen, Hua; Lim, Noah
作者单位：University of Mississippi; University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Madison
摘要：When designing contests to motivate employees, should managers organize employees to compete in teams or as individuals? We develop a behavioral economics model that shows that if contestants are averse to being responsible for the team's loss, a team-based (TB) contest can yield higher effort than an individual-based (IB) contest. This prediction is contrary to those of standard economics models, which favor IB contests over TB contests. We test the competing predictions using laboratory econ...
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作者：Hu, Ming; Shi, Mengze; Wu, Jiahua
作者单位：University of Toronto
摘要：This paper studies the design of group-buying mechanisms in a two-period game where cohorts of consumers I arrive at a deal and make sign-up decisions sequentially. A firm can adopt either a sequential mechanism where the firm discloses to second-period arrivals the number of sign-ups accumulated in the first period, or a simultaneous mechanism where the firm does not post the number of first-period sign-ups and hence each cohort of consumers faces uncertainty about another cohort's size and v...
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作者：Aksin, Zeynep; Ata, Baris; Emadi, Seyed Morteza; Su, Che-Lin
作者单位：Koc University; University of Chicago; University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
摘要：We model the decision-making process of callers in call centers as an optimal stopping problem. After each waiting period, a caller decides whether to abandon a call or continue to wait. The utility of a caller is modeled as a function of her waiting cost and reward for service. We use a random-coefficients model to capture the heterogeneity of the callers and estimate the cost and reward parameters of the callers using the data from individual calls made to an Israeli call center. We also con...
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作者：Chen, Ying-Ju; Tomlin, Brian; Wang, Yimin
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Berkeley; Dartmouth College; Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe
摘要：The simultaneous production of different outputs (coproducts) is observed in the chemical, material, mineral, and semiconductor industries among others. Often, as with microprocessors, the outputs differ in quality in the vertical sense and firms classify the output into different grades (products). We analyze product line design and production for a firm operating a vertical coproduct technology. We examine how the product line and profit are influenced by the production cost and output distr...
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作者：Mingo, Santiago
作者单位：Universidad Adolfo Ibanez
摘要：Companies frequently expand their production capacity through the acquisition of new organizational unit. This study analyzes how the performance of existing units is affected by the acquisition of another unit. The research focuses on three mechanisms: managerial distraction, resource transfer, and knowledge sharing. These mechanisms are studied in the context of existing units and acquired units with different levels of proximity and similarity between them. Using a detailed data set from an...
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作者：Habib, Michel A.; Hege, Ulrich; Mella-Barral, Pierre
作者单位：University of Zurich; Centre for Economic Policy Research - UK; Swiss Finance Institute (SFI); Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC) Paris; Universite Catholique de Lille; EDHEC Business School
摘要：We analyze the implications of the decision to spawn or to retain a new product for the nature and evolution of the firm. In our model, a new product is spawned if the fit between the product and its parent firm organization is not adequate. We focus on the impact of the firm's history of spawning decisions on firm characteristics such as size, focus, profitability, and innovativeness, and analyze its role in shaping firm dynamics. In accordance with the empirical literature, our model predict...
