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作者：Niculescu, Marius F.; Wu, D. J.; Xu, Lizhen
作者单位：University System of Georgia; Georgia Institute of Technology
摘要：In this paper, we explore the strategic decision of an incumbent to open a proprietary technology platform to allow same-side co-opetition in a market characterized by network effects. We propose a game-theoretic model that analytically conceptualizes the interplay among the degree of same-side platform openness, the absorptive capacity of the entrant, and the intensity of network effects. Our analysis uncovers interesting new results. First, when entrant product quality is exogenous, under ve...
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作者：Benaroch, Michel
作者单位：Syracuse University
摘要：Managerial flexibility, or real options, embedded in information technology (IT) investments allows resolving uncertainty not only by passively waiting for new information to arrive during deferral but also by proactively deploying mitigations. Classic real options models fail to account for the value of proactive uncertainty-reducing mitigations, since they assume that uncertainty is fixed or follows a continuous, time-dependent dynamics. We present adaptations of these models that address th...
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作者：Easley, Robert F.; Guo, Hong; Kraemer, Jan
作者单位：University of Notre Dame; University of Passau
摘要：The Internet has assumed a central role in the global economy facilitating commerce and communication and is thus central to many areas of information systems (IS) research. In particular, IS researchers played a critical role in the academic discourse on net neutrality, which has recently informed new regulatory frameworks in the United States and Europe. We discuss and categorize the various issues and key trade-offs that are still being debated in the context of net neutrality and identify ...
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作者：Constantinides, Panos; Henfridsson, Ola; Parker, Geoffrey G.
作者单位：University of Warwick; Dartmouth College
摘要：In the last few years, leading-edge research from information systems, strategic management, and economics have separately informed our understanding of platforms and infrastructures in the digital age. Our motivation for undertaking this special issue rests in the conviction that it is significant to discuss platforms and infrastructures concomitantly, while enabling knowledge from diverse disciplines to cross-pollinate to address critical, pressing policy challenges and inform strategic thin...
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作者：Adjerid, Idris; Adler-Milstein, Julia; Angst, Corey
作者单位：University of Notre Dame; University of Michigan System; University of Michigan
摘要：Health information exchanges (HIEs) are entities that have emerged in healthcare delivery markets across the United States. By providing an interorganizational information system (IOIS) and governance over use of this system and the information exchanged through it, HIEs enable more routine and efficient electronic sharing of patient information between disparate and fragmented healthcare providers. This should result in improved quality and efficiency of care. However, significant questions p...
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作者：Foerderer, Jens; Kude, Thomas; Mithas, Sunil; Heinzl, Armin
作者单位：University of Mannheim; ESSEC Business School; University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park; State University System of Florida; University of South Florida
摘要：We study how platform owners' decision to enter complementary markets affects innovation in the ecosystem surrounding the platform. Despite heated debates on the behavior of platform owners toward complementors, relatively little is known about the mechanisms linking platform owners' entry and complementary innovation. We exploit Google's 2015 entry into the market for photography apps on its own Android platform as a quasi-experiment. We conclude based on our analyses of a time-series panel o...
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作者：Lee, Ho Cheung Brian; Ba, Sulin; Li, Xinxin; Stallaert, Jan
作者单位：University of Massachusetts System; University of Massachusetts Lowell; University of Connecticut
摘要：Crowdsourcing relies on online platforms to connect a community of users to perform specific tasks. However, without appropriate control, the behavior of the online community might not align with the platform's designed objective, which can lead to an inferior platform performance. This paper investigates how the feedback information on a crowdsourcing platform and systematic bias of crowdsourcing workers can affect crowdsourcing outcomes. Specifically, using archival data from the online crow...
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作者：He, Shu; Rui, Huaxia; Whinston, Andrew B.
作者单位：University of Connecticut; University of Rochester; University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin
摘要：When a focal firm undergoes a product-harm crisis, nonfocal firms offering similar products or services can suffer from a negative spillover effect, but can also benefit from customers switching from the troubled focal firm, which we call the competitive effect. In response, a nonfocal firm can adapt its marketing strategy in consideration of these two opposing effects. Because social media is a flexible medium through which firms can quickly adjust marketing strategies in response to such une...
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作者：Wang, Quan; Li, Beibei; Singh, Param Vir
作者单位：Carnegie Mellon University; Carnegie Mellon University
摘要：While the growth of the mobile apps market has created significant market opportunities and economic incentives for mobile app developers to innovate, it has also inevitably invited other developers to create rip-offs. Practitioners and developers of original apps claim that copycats steal the original app's idea and potential demand, and have called for app platforms to take action against such copycats. Surprisingly, however, there has been little rigorous research analyzing whether and how ...
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作者：Karhu, Kimmo; Gustafsson, Robin; Lyytinen, Kalle
作者单位：Aalto University; Aalto University; University System of Ohio; Case Western Reserve University
摘要：Digital platforms can be opened in two ways to promote innovation and value generation. A platform owner can open access for third-party participants by establishing boundary resources, such as APIs and an app store, to allow complements to be developed and shared for the platform. Furthermore, to foster cooperation with the complementors, the platform owner can use an open-source license boundary resource to open and share the platform's core resources. However, openness that is too wide rend...
