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作者：Kanat, Irfan; Hong, Yili; Raghu, T. S.
作者单位：University System of Ohio; Ohio University; Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe
摘要：Global online labor markets (OLMs) lower the barriers to entry and enable global competition for information technology (IT) services from providers around the world. Although the prior OLM literature predominantly found systematic advantages for IT service providers from developed countries because of their higher perceived quality, the reality is that most service providers in OLM are from developing countries. This phenomenon requires a robust analysis of how OLMs are evolving. In this stud...
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作者：Zhao, Kexin; Zhang, Bin; Bai, Xue
作者单位：University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Charlotte; University of Arizona; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Temple University; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Temple University
摘要：Virtual interorganizational communities of practice (IOCoPs) enable professionals belonging to different organizations to exchange and share knowledge via computer-mediated interactions. Since knowledge sharing is socially embedded, contextual factors likely play an important role in encouraging individual's community participation. Specifically, professionals in IOCoPs are embedded in two different social environments: the virtual community where they interact with online peers and organizati...
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作者：Basu, Amit; Bhaskaran, Sreekumar
作者单位：Southern Methodist University
摘要：A key barrier to companies successfully engaging customers in the design of new products is customers fearing that they will be forced to pay much more for the custom products they help design. This fear is justified by the fact that once the customer has invested significant time and effort in co-designing a product, the firm can extract the entire consumer surplus through higher prices. At the same time, the firm allowing its customers to co-design products would be unlikely to commit to a p...
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作者：Kim, Hee-Woong; Kankanhalli, Atreyi; Lee, So-Hyun
作者单位：Yonsei University; National University of Singapore
摘要：The increasing popularity of social network services (SNS) presents an opportunity to offer gifting services through SNS. For givers, gifting can be an important means to enhance social relationships. On the other hand, for SNS providers, members' gifting can serve as a major source of revenue. As SNS providers continue to face challenges in generating revenues, understanding how to stimulate gifting through SNS can allow them to profit from members' relationships. However, there is little und...
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作者：Gupta, Alok
作者单位：University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities
