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作者：Zhu, Kai; Walker, Dylan; Muchnik, Lev
作者单位：McGill University; Boston University; Hebrew University of Jerusalem
摘要：Open collaboration platforms have fundamentally changed the way that knowledge is produced, disseminated, and consumed. In these systems, contributions arise organically with little to no central governance. Although such decentralization provides many benefits, a lack of broad oversight and coordination can leave questions of information poverty and skewness to the mercy of the system's natural dynamics. Unfortunately, we still lack a basic understanding of the dynamics at play in these syste...
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作者：Aseri, Manmohan; Dawande, Milind; Janakiraman, Ganesh; Mookerjee, Vijay S.
作者单位：Carnegie Mellon University; University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas
摘要：Users who have an ad-blocker installed present a genuine predicament for a website (also known as the publisher): On the one hand, these users do not generate revenue for the website; on the other hand, denying them access can shrink the user base and adversely affect the popularity of the website, ultimately reducing traffic over the long run. This has led some websites to require that ad-block users white-list them for obtaining access to an ad-light experience. We model the decision problem...
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作者：Huang, Ni; Burtch, Gordon; Hong, Yili; Pavlou, Paul A.
作者单位：Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe; University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities; University of Houston System; University of Houston
摘要：The gig economy has low barriers to entry, enabling flexible work arrangements and allowing workers to engage in contingent employment, whenever, and in some cases, such as online labor markets, wherever, workers desire. The growth of the gig economy has been partly attributed to technological advancements that enable flexible work environments. In this study, we consider the role of an alternative driver, economic downturns, and associated financial stressors in the offline economy, for examp...
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作者：Kokkodis, Marios; Lappas, Theodoros; Ransbotham, Sam
作者单位：Boston College; Stevens Institute of Technology
摘要：In an online community, users can interact with fellow community members by voluntarily contributing to existing discussion threads or by starting new threads. In practice, however, the vast majority of a community's users (approximate to 90%) remain inactive (lurk), simply observing contributions made by intermittent (approximate to 9%) and heavy (approximate to 1%) contributors. Our research examines increases and decreases of types of user engagement in online communities using hidden Marko...
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作者：Ghoshal, Abhijeet; Hao, Jing; Menon, Syam; Sarkar, Sumit
作者单位：University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas
摘要：Retailers have been sharing transactional data with supply chain partners for a long time to the benefit of all involved. However, many are still reluctant to share, and there is evidence that the extent of sharing would be greater if information sensitive to retailers is concealed before data are shared. Although there has been considerable research into methods to hide sensitive information from transactional data, extant research has focused only on sensitive information at the organization...
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作者：Wang, Liuan; Yan, Lu (Lucy); Zhou, Tongxin; Guo, Xitong; Heim, Gregory R.
作者单位：Beihang University; Indiana University System; Indiana University Bloomington; IU Kelley School of Business; University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle; Harbin Institute of Technology; Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station; Mays Business School
摘要：Physicians' participation in online healthcare platforms serves to integrate online healthcare resources with the offline medical system. This integration brings opportunities for reshaping healthcare delivery systems. In the field of telemedicine, there has been an extensive discussion about physician participation, but little is known about how physicians actually participate in online healthcare platforms and offline medical systems. Understanding physicians' participation dynamics between ...
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作者：Belanger, France; James, Tabitha L.
作者单位：Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University
摘要：In the digital era, it is increasingly important to understand how privacy decisions are made because information is frequently perceived as a commodity that is mismanaged. The preponderance of privacy literature focuses on individual-level information privacy concern and personal self-disclosure decisions. We propose that a more versatile multilevel description is required to enable exploration of complex privacy decisions that involve co-owned (i.e., group) information in increasingly sophis...
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作者：Shi, Zhan (Michael); Raghu, T. S.
作者单位：Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe
摘要：This paper investigates the strategy for product recommendation. Specifically, we analyze a platform-based market where consumers search and purchase products that potentially differ in quality. In addition, consumers have idiosyncratic tastes for a product, and the extent of this heterogeneity may vary from one product to another. In other words, there may be products with low taste dispersion (products for which there is less heterogeneity among consumers), as well as products with high tast...
