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作者：Goes, Paulo B.; Guo, Chenhui; Lin, Mingfeng
作者单位：University of Arizona; University of Arizona
摘要：To motivate user contributions, user-generated content sites routinely deploy incentive hierarchies, where users achieve increasingly higher statuses in the community after achieving increasingly more difficult goals. Yet the existing empirical literature remains largely unclear whether such hierarchies are indeed effective in inducing user contributions. We gather data from a large online crowd-based knowledge exchange to answer this question, and draw on goal setting and status hierarchy the...
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作者：Venkatesh, Viswanath; Bala, Hillol; Sambamurthy, V.
作者单位：University of Arkansas System; University of Arkansas Fayetteville; Hong Kong Polytechnic University; Indiana University System; IU Kelley School of Business; Indiana University Bloomington; Michigan State University; Michigan State University's Broad College of Business
摘要：Developing countries, such as India and China, are the fastest growing economies in the world. The successful implementation of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in these countries is likely to hinge on a set of institutional factors that are shaped by the environmental tension between two competing forces, emergent catalysts, such as new economic policies and reform programs, and traditional challenges, such as infrastructure and traditional value systems. To unearth the tempo...
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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：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：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：Agarwal, Ashish; Mukhopadhyay, Tridas
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin; Carnegie Mellon University
摘要：Our research examines the impact of competing ads on click performance of an ad in sponsored search. We use a unique data set of 1,267 advertiser keyword pairs with differing ad quality related to 360 keywords from a search engine to evaluate the click performance. We find that competing high-quality ads, appearing above the focal ad, have a lower negative effect on the click performance as compared to competing lowquality ads. We also find that this effect of competing ads varies with the ad ...
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作者：Demirezen, Emre M.; Kumar, Subodha; Shetty, Bala
作者单位：State University of New York (SUNY) System; Binghamton University, SUNY; Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station; Mays Business School
摘要：We study the relationship between a client and a vendor in value co-creation environments such as information technology projects. We consider that the client gets utility from the project throughout the development period and that the effort levels are not verifiable if not monitored. The output is contingent on the effort levels of each party, and we allow these effort levels to be dynamic. Hence, the client needs to optimally decide the terms of payment structures so as to maximize her net ...
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作者：Greenstein, Shane; Zhu, Feng
作者单位：Harvard University
摘要：The diffusion of the Internet and digital technologies has enabled many organizations to use the open-content production model to produce and disseminate knowledge. While several prior studies have shown that the open-content production model can lead to high-quality output in the context of uncontroversial and verifiable information, it is unclear whether this production model will produce any desirable outcome when information is controversial, subjective, and unverifiable. We examine whethe...
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作者：Burtch, Gordon; Ghose, Anindya; Wattal, Sunil
作者单位：University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities; New York University; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Temple University
摘要：Individuals' actions in online social contexts are growing increasingly visible and traceable. Many online platforms account for this by providing users with granular control over when and how their identity or actions are made visible to peers. However, little work has sought to understand the effect that a user's decision to conceal information might have on observing peers, who are likely to refer to that information when deciding on their own actions. We leverage a unique impression-level ...
