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作者：MacCrory, Frank; Choudhary, Vidyanand; Pinsonneault, Alain
作者单位：Fordham University; University of California System; University of California Irvine; McGill University
摘要：Chronic excessive turnover among information technology (IT) professionals has been costly to firms for decades with annual turnover rates as high as 24% even among Computerworld's 100 Best Places to Work in IT. Prior information systems literature has identified two key factors affecting turnover: boundary-spanning roles and low promotability in one's current firm. We draw on tournament theory, which is primarily concerned with inducing effort in employees, to decompose promotability into two...
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作者：Blohm, Ivo; Riedl, Christoph; Fueller, Johann; Leimeister, Jan Marco
作者单位：University of St Gallen; Northeastern University; Northeastern University; Harvard University; University of Innsbruck; Universitat Kassel
摘要：Information technology (IT) has created new patterns of digitally-mediated collaboration that allow open sourcing of ideas for new products and services. These novel sociotechnical arrangements afford finely-grained manipulation of how tasks can be represented and have changed the way organizations ideate. In this paper, we investigate differences in behavioral decision-making resulting from IT-based support of open idea evaluation. We report results from a randomized experiment of 120 partici...
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作者：Bapna, Ravi; Gupta, Alok; Ray, Gautam; Singh, Shweta
作者单位：University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities; Indian Institute of Technology System (IIT System); Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) - Kanpur
摘要：There is significant information asymmetry in the information technology (IT) outsourcing market. Clients are uncertain about vendors' capabilities and vendors are uncertain about clients' requirements. Prior literature has examined many devices to reduce such information asymmetry, e.g., vendor reputation, client-vendor prior relationship, vendors' Capability Maturity Model (CMM) rating, vendor location, and technological diversity of the vendor. We examine the impact of (to our knowledge) a ...
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作者：Bauer, Julia; Franke, Nikolaus; Tuertscher, Philipp
作者单位：Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
摘要：In many online communities, users reveal innovative and potentially valuable intellectual property (IP) under conditions that entail the risk of theft and imitation. When there is rivalry and formal IP law is not effective, this could lead to underinvestment or withholding of IP, unless user-organized norms compensate for these shortcomings. This study is the first to explore the characteristics and functioning of such a norms-based IP system in the setting of anonymous, large-scale, and loose...
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作者：Stanko, Michael A.
作者单位：North Carolina State University
摘要：Within online innovation communities, remixing (i.e., the community's use of an existing innovation as source material or inspiration to aid in the development of further innovations) is an interesting form of knowledge collaboration. This study investigates an open theoretical question: Why are particular innovations remixed by online innovation communities? Some innovations languish, while others are widely remixed. Community members (even those unknown to the innovation's creator) may remix...
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作者：Agarwal, Ritu
作者单位：University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park
摘要：Scholars within fields frequently introspect about the evolution of their research disciplines, asking if the discipline is developing a cumulative research tradition, influencing scholarly work in other fields, and expanding its boundaries. In this spirit, I examine the intellectual structure and evolution of one disciplinary journal, ISR, over the most recent four-year period (2012-2015). I use a census of citation data and classify journals citing ISR and cited by ISR into the disciplines t...
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作者：Cho, Soohyun; Qiu, Liangfei; Bandyopadhyay, Subhajyoti
作者单位：Rutgers University System; Rutgers University Newark; Rutgers University New Brunswick; State University System of Florida; University of Florida
摘要：Internet service providers (ISPs) are experimenting with a business model that allows content providers (CPs) to subsidize Internet access for end consumers. In this study, we develop a game-theoretical model to analyze the effects of this sponsorship of consumer data usage. We find that the ISP's optimal network management choice of data sponsorship crucially depends on market conditions, such as the revenue rates of CPs and the fit cost of consumers. If the fit cost is low, the ISP will eith...
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作者：Cheng, Hsing Kenneth; Li, Zhi; Naranjo, Andy
作者单位：State University System of Florida; University of Florida; Babson College
摘要：This study examines cloud computing spot pricing dynamics and the influence of latency on those pricing dynamics. Using the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud U.S. East and West market spot instance pricing and latency intraday data from April 9, 2010, to May 22, 2011, we find considerable time variation in spot instance prices, and prices are often persistently higher in the West. Bivariate vector autoregressive model results show that within-market autoregressive pricing effects are larger than ac...
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作者：Barrett, Michael; Oborn, Eivor; Orlikowski, Wanda
作者单位：University of Cambridge; University of Warwick; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
摘要：How is value created in an online community (OC) over time? We explored this question through a longitudinal field study of an OC in the healthcare arena. We found that multiple kinds of value were produced and changed over time as different participants engaged with the OC and its evolving technology in various ways. To explain our findings, we theorize OC value as performed through the ongoing sociomaterial configuring of strategies, digital platforms, and stakeholder engagement. We develop ...
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作者：Ji, Yonghua; Kumar, Subodha; Mookerjee, Vijay
作者单位：University of Alberta; Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station; Mays Business School; University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas
摘要：We study operational and managerial problems arising in the context of security monitoring where sessions, rather than raw individual events, are monitored to prevent attacks. The objective of the monitoring problem is to maximize the benefit of monitoring minus the monitoring cost. The key trade-off in our model is that as more sessions are monitored, the attack costs should decrease. However, the monitoring cost would likely increase with the number of sessions being monitored. A key step in...
