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作者：Deng, Jiaying; Lee, Stephanie; Tan, Yong
作者单位：Fordham University; University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle
摘要：With the rapid development of mobile technology and consumers' increasing demand for portability, the mobile gaming market has experienced huge growth. To ensure the success of mobile games, game publishers need to keep their players engaged and, at the same time, seek monetization strategies that do not interrupt players' engagement. This paper examines how in-game challenge-related factors (i.e., perceived challenge and fluctuation of perceived challenge) and a novel mobile game monetization...
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作者：Qian, Bingjie; Koh, Tat Koon; Zhang, Xiaoquan (Michael)
作者单位：Tongji University; Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
摘要：An integral component of user participation in community-based platforms is giving likes to content posted by others. At the same time, online social participation differs from offline social participation in that online users are often allowed to create a virtual identity unrelated to their real-world identity. The objective of this study is to identify the motivations behind users' giving likes when their virtual identity (i.e., username) is hidden or shown. Specifically, we leverage a natur...
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作者：Dietz, Johann; Spohrer, Kai; Hoehle, Hartmut
作者单位：University of Mannheim; Frankfurt School Finance & Management
摘要：Enterprise systems (ESs) can be important for the development and maintenance of professional role identities. Prior work shows that a new ES implementation can trigger significant identity work in individuals and groups if it alters their tasks or responsibilities. What has received less attention is that the introduction of a new ES may affect multiple, interdependent professional groups simultaneously, changing how these professional groups can or must interact based on the system propertie...
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作者：Grover, Varun; Zhan, Xinhui; Sun, Heshan; Jiang, Dan (Claire)
作者单位：University of Arkansas System; University of Arkansas Fayetteville; University of Oklahoma System; University of Oklahoma - Norman
摘要：Traditionally thought of as uncomfortable bedfellows, consumer IT and fashion are becoming increasingly intertwined, which has given rise to a unique phenomenon termed consumer IT fashion-the collective enthusiasm in society for consumer technology. Nevertheless, it remains uncertain how IT fashion is perceived by individual consumers and subsequently influences consumer behavior. Our research aims to bridge this gap. By differentiating between societal-level and individual-level perceptions o...
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作者：Jiang, Dorothy Lianlian; Ye, Shun; Zhao, Liang; Gu, Bin
作者单位：University of Houston System; University of Houston; George Mason University; Hong Kong Baptist University; Boston University
摘要：Many online platforms have utilized information technology, such as artificial intelligence (AI), to reduce consumers' information search costs and facilitate their decision-making processes. Given the variety of online information, these technologies are often effective in reducing the search cost for only specific information types: a concept we refer to as search cost reduction for partial information. For rational consumers, this can lead to improved decision making. However, consumers do ...
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作者：Venkatesh, Viswanath
作者单位：Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University
摘要：The ever-changing technology landscape has information systems (IS) researchers constantly facing new phenomena, especially in new settings, that must be understood. To address this challenge, building on calls for contextualization, this commentary complements prior works on contextualization and presents guidance within four general research steps- defining the problem, anchoring to prior research, seeking novelty, and reporting practices-in order to achieve rigorous contextualization. In do...
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作者：Zhang, Xin; Cheng, Lihong; Yu, Yugang; Tan, Yong
作者单位：Chinese Academy of Sciences; University of Science & Technology of China, CAS; University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle
摘要：Data have become an important competitive asset, especially for online advertising platforms, leading to the emergence of a new data broker industry. Platforms can partner with data brokers to acquire external data to enhance their targeting capabilities, but this practice has stoked growing consumer privacy concerns. This study develops a gametheoretic model to examine the economic mechanism underlying the partnership between competing platforms and a data broker in a two-sided market. Intere...
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作者：Ding, Yi; Xu, Haifeng; Tan, Bernard C. Y.
作者单位：University of Warwick; Shanghai Jiao Tong University; National University of Singapore
摘要：Previous studies have investigated how various factors influence prosocial microlending decisions under normal circumstances. Nevertheless, a natural disaster may result in a situation where lenders can hardly find appropriate loans from the disaster-affected region. When faced with the mismatch between the supply and demand of microloans, lenders can either simply choose not to make any contributions or divert their prosocial intentions toward a different group of beneficiaries. Drawing on th...
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作者：Aditya, Subrahmanyam; Agarwal, Ashish; Barua, Anitesh
作者单位：National University of Singapore; University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin
摘要：Firms strive to improve their products over time to compete effectively in the market. Typically, firms update their products by adding novel or differentiating features or by imitating competitors. With the ubiquity of social media, there is also the opportunity to obtain customer input on their preferred features for a product. In the case of mobile apps, user feedback in the form of reviews may include suggestions of novel features or those that are already present in competing apps but not...
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作者：Horton, John J.; Tambe, Prasanna
作者单位：Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); National Bureau of Economic Research; University of Pennsylvania
摘要：We analyze how the decline of a technology affects online labor market dynamics. We evaluate the effects of Steve Jobs' announcement that Apple would no longer support Adobe Flash-a popular set of tools for creating internet applications. Despite a precipitous decline in Flash demand, there is no evidence of a reduction in Flash wages on this platform because the supply response was rapid, particularly among younger developers with readily available fallback skills. The key to this rapid adjus...
