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作者：Chen, Kun; Li, Xin; Luo, Peng; Zhao, J. Leon
作者单位：Southern University of Science & Technology; City University of Hong Kong; Sichuan University; The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
摘要：Firm relations, which inform the competitive environments of firms, are critical to firm operations and are often factored into investor decisions. Previous studies and practices have considered relatively stable and long-term business relations as an indicator of firm market value. Public news often reports on business relations, especially dynamic and short-term opportunities and challenges involving different partners. Learning about firm relations from news is commonly done by human invest...
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作者：Liu, Yuewen; Feng, Juan
作者单位：Xi'an Jiaotong University; Tsinghua University; Tsinghua University
摘要：Many platforms use monetary incentives to encourage user-generated content (UGC) contributions. However, empirical studies report contradictory findings: monetary incentives may either increase or decrease contribution. To understand the underlying mechanisms, we build a theoretical model where four types of contributors (classified by whether they contribute without monetary incentive and whether they are effective in attracting audience) compete for the audience. We identify two crowding out...
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作者：Meng, Zixuan; Hao, Lin; Tan, Yong
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas; Fordham University; University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle
摘要：Providers of free-to-play games often gain revenue by monetizing players' playtime, for example, through in-game advertising and by selling premium modules of the game. One emerging strategy to sell the premium module, known as the virtual selling strategy, is to set the module price based on an amount of virtual currency that players can either spend on playtime to earn or use real currency to buy. In this paper, we examine how the virtual selling strategy leads to different market outcomes t...
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作者：Gupta, Alok
作者单位：University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities
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作者：Park, Jiyong; Pang, Min-Seok; Kim, Junetae; Lee, Byungtae
作者单位：University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Greensboro; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Temple University; National Cancer Center - Korea (NCC); Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST)
摘要：Sexual assault is one of the most repellant and costly crimes, which inflicts irrecoverable harms on victims and society. This study examines the effect of information technology (IT)-enabled ride-sharing platforms on sexual assaults. Drawing upon routine activity theory from the criminology literature, we posit that ride-sharing can reduce a passenger's risk of being a suitable target of sexual assault by providing a more reliable and timely transportation option for traveling to a safer plac...
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作者：Wong, Randy Yee Man; Cheung, Christy M. K.; Xiao, Bo; Thatcher, Jason Bennett
作者单位：University of Auckland; Hong Kong Baptist University; University of Hawaii System; University of Hawaii Manoa; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Temple University
摘要：Social media harassment, a cyberbullying behavior, poses a serious threat to users and platform owners of social media. A growing body of research suggests involving bystanders in interventions to combat deviant behaviors. In this paper, we contextualize the bystander intervention framework and reporting literature to social media in order to understand why bystanders report social media harassment. Our contextualized intervention framework focuses on three sociotechnical aspects-the online so...
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作者：Chen, Jiawei; (Catherine) Yang, Yinghui; Liu, Hongyan
作者单位：Shanghai University of Finance & Economics; University of California System; University of California Davis; Tsinghua University
摘要：On most e-commerce platforms, reviews are often written by buyers to evaluate sellers or products offered by sellers. In recent years, more and more platforms allowing both buyers and sellers to write reviews for each other have emerged. These bilateral reviews are important information sources in the decision-making process of both buyers and sellers but have not been properly investigated in the literature before. We develop a comprehensive relational topic modeling approach to analyze bilat...
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作者：Qiao, Mengke; Huang, Ke-Wei
作者单位：Chinese Academy of Sciences; University of Science & Technology of China, CAS; National University of Singapore
摘要：As a result of advances in data mining, more and more empirical studies in the social sciences apply classification algorithms to construct independent or dependent variables for further analysis via standard regression methods. In the classification phase of these studies, researchers need to subjectively choose a classification performance metric for optimization in the standard procedure. No matter which performance metric is chosen, the constructed variable still includes classification er...
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作者：Dey, Debabrata; Ghoshal, Abhijeet; Lahiri, Atanu
作者单位：University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle; University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas
摘要：This research develops a microeconomic model to study the impact of support forums on the software industry. Motivated by the rapid growth of forums such as Stack Exchange, Quora, and Yahoo! Answers, we examine what impact they could have on a software vendor's pricing strategy. Because these forums provide an alternative, free source for obtaining software support, one might suspect that the shadow competition from them would eat into the profit the vendor makes from selling support services....
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作者：Nian, Tingting; Hu, Yuheng; Chen, Cheng
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Irvine; University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Chicago; University of Illinois Chicago Hospital; University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
摘要：The proliferation of media platforms allows marketers to gauge con- sumers' opinions toward brands directly from online word of mouth (WOM). In this paper, we exploit a large-scale television program (the Super Bowl 2016) and exogenous game events that may cause a positive emotional context for fans of the winning team while creating a negative emotional context for fans of the losing team to investigate the impact of television-program-induced emotions on viewers' online WOM behavior toward a...
