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作者：Tong, Yu; Tan, Chuan-Hoo; Teo, Hock-Hai
作者单位：Zhejiang University; National University of Singapore
摘要：When an organization introduces an information system (IS), management often expects employees to utilize the system. However, rather than use the system directly, designated users may delegate some parts of their IS use to other users while assuming primary responsibility and accountability for the system use tasks. This behavior is called indirect IS use, a behavior that is acknowledged in some studies but not adequately scrutinized. This research distinguishes between direct and indirect IS...
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作者：Mitra, Saby
作者单位：University System of Georgia; Georgia Institute of Technology
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作者：Temizkan, Orcun; Park, Sungjune; Saydam, Cem
作者单位：Ozyegin University; University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Charlotte
摘要：Firms, and other agencies, tend to adopt widely used software to gain economic benefits of scale, which can lead to a software monoculture. This can, in turn, involve the risk of correlated computer systems failure as all systems on the network are exposed to the same software-based vulnerabilities. Software diversity has been introduced as a strategy for disrupting such a monoculture and ultimately decreasing the risk of correlated failure. Nevertheless, common vulnerabilities can be shared b...
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作者：Ravichandran, T.; Han, Shu; Mithas, Sunil
作者单位：Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Yeshiva University; University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park
摘要：Increasingly, firms across many industries are grappling with the challenge of declining returns to research and development (R&D). In this study, we investigate if and how information technology (IT) can help firms deal with this problem. We theorize that IT systems can help firms to cope with the complexity and inefficiency in managing innovation when R&D investments scale. We explicate the mechanisms through which IT enables firms to cope with the challenges they face when scaling their R&D...
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作者：Du, Xiaomeng; Su, Meng; Zhang, Xiaoquan (Michael); Zheng, Xiaona
作者单位：Peking University; Chinese University of Hong Kong
摘要：Although keyword auctions are often studied in the context of a single keyword in the literature, firms generally have to participate in multiple keyword auctions at the same time. Advertisers purchase a variety of keywords that can be categorized as generic-relevant, focal-brand, and competing-brand keywords. At the same time, firms also have to choose how the keywords can be matched to search queries: exact, phrase, or broad. This study empirically examines how keyword categories and match t...
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作者：Alam, Sultana Lubna; Campbell, John
作者单位：Deakin University; Australian National University
摘要：Crowdsourcing (CS) by cultural and heritage institutions engage volunteers in online projects without monetary compensation. Uncertainty concerning online volunteer motivation has led to a growing body of academic research. This study contributes to that debate, by extending focus to CS volunteer work in nonprofit cultural institutions where no monetary benefit is offered to volunteers. This study examines motivations of high performing volunteers in a newspaper digitisation CS project, initia...
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作者：Ho, Joanna; Tian, Feng; Wu, Anne; Xu, Sean Xin
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Irvine; Hong Kong Polytechnic University; National Chengchi University; Tsinghua University
摘要：This study addresses the economic impacts of information technology (IT) overinvestment and underinvestment decisions. Based on the view of Red Queen competition in conjunction with institutional theory, we hypothesize that overinvestment and underinvestment in IT have nonlinear performance impacts. Drawing on the idea of management control mechanisms, we further hypothesize that the performance impacts are conditional on ownership concentration. Using a sample of S&P 500 firms, we find that, ...
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作者：Breward, Michael; Hassanein, Khaled; Head, Milena
作者单位：University of Winnipeg; McMaster University
摘要：Controversial information technologies, such as biometrics and radio frequency identification, are perceived as having the potential to both benefit and undermine the well-being of the user. Given the type and/or amount of information these technologies have the capability to capture, there have been some concerns among users and potential users. However, prominent technology adoption models tend to focus on only the positive utilities associated with technology use. This research leverages ne...
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作者：Liu, Yang; Feng, Juan; Liao, Xiuwu
作者单位：Xi'an Jiaotong University; City University of Hong Kong
摘要：This paper studies how two types of market-generated information, namely, online reviews and past sales volume information, jointly affect consumer purchase decisions aswell as firms' pricing strategies. We build a two-period duopoly model in a market with herding consumers who have different preferences and are unsure of the quality difference between products. In addition, a firm's sales volume is uncertain because of the existence of irregular consumers. We find that the impacts of online r...
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作者：Gupta, Alok
作者单位：University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities
