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作者：Yan, Lu (Lucy); Peng, Jianping; Tan, Yong
作者单位：Indiana University System; Indiana University Bloomington; IU Kelley School of Business; Sun Yat Sen University; University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle
摘要：Social networks have been shown to affect health. Because online social networking makes it easier for individuals to interact with experientially similar others in regard to health issues and to exchange social support, there has been an increasing effort to understand how networks function. Nevertheless, little attention has been paid to how these networks are formed. In this paper, we examine the driving forces behind patients' social network formation and evolution. We argue that patients'...
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作者：Ravindran, Kiron; Susarla, Anjana; Mani, Deepa; Gurbaxani, Vijay
作者单位：IE University; Michigan State University; Indian School of Business (ISB); University of California System; University of California Irvine
摘要：This paper presents new evidence on the role of embeddedness in predicting contract duration in the context of information technology outsourcing. Contract duration is a strategic decision that aligns interests of clients and vendors, providing the benefits of business continuity to clients and incentives to undertake relationship specific investments for vendors. Considering the salience of this phenomenon, there has been limited empirical scrutiny of how contract duration is awarded. We posi...
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作者：Johnson, Steven L.; Safadi, Hani; Faraj, Samer
作者单位：Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Temple University; Stevens Institute of Technology; McGill University
摘要：Compared to traditional organizations, online community leadership processes and how leaders emerge are not well studied. Previous studies of online leadership have often identified leaders as those who administer forums or have high network centrality scores. Although communication in online communities occurs almost exclusively through written words, little research has addressed how the comparative use of language shapes community dynamics. Using participant surveys to identify leading onli...
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作者：Greenwood, Brad N.; Gopal, Anand
作者单位：Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Temple University; University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park
摘要：In this paper, we study the impact of increases in media coverage from two sources, newspapers and blogs, on firm founding rates in the context of technology-based entrepreneurship. Although increasing work in information systems (IS) has begun to investigate the effect of user-generated content on entrepreneurial behavior, limited attention has been devoted to how media affects firm founding or the boundary conditions of such an effect. Arguing for the direct effect of increased discourse in ...
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作者：Lee, One-Ki (Daniel); Sambamurthy, Vallabh; Lim, Kai H.; Wei, Kwok Kee
作者单位：University of Massachusetts System; University of Massachusetts Boston; Michigan State University; Michigan State University's Broad College of Business; City University of Hong Kong
摘要：Organizational agility is a significant business capability. Though there have been numerous studies about the effects of information technology (IT) capabilities on organizational agility, there has been limited attention on the enabling effects of IT ambidexterity, namely, the dual capacity to explore and exploit IT resources and practices. We propose that IT ambidexterity enhances organizational agility by facilitating operational ambidexterity, and that the magnitude of facilitation depend...
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作者：Tiwana, Amrit
作者单位：University System of Georgia; University of Georgia
摘要：Intraplatform competition has received scant attention in prior studies, which predominantly study interplatform competition. We develop a middle-range theory of how complementarity between input control and a platform extension's modularization-by inducing evolution-influences its performance in a platform market. Primary and archival data spanning five years from 342 Firefox extensions show that such complementarity fosters performance by accelerating an extension's perpetual evolution.
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作者：Spaeth, Sebastian; von Krogh, Georg; He, Fang
作者单位：University of Hamburg; Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology Domain; ETH Zurich
摘要：Voluntary contributions are crucial to the success of open source software (OSS) projects. Firms sponsoring OSS projects may face substantial challenges in soliciting such contributions, since volunteer participants are neither regulated by an employment contract nor offered financial incentives. Although prior work has shown the positive impact of motivation on the effort expended by volunteer participants, there is limited understanding of how specific firm attributes shape volunteers' intri...
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作者：Wayne Gregory, Robert; Keil, Mark; Muntermann, Jan; Mahring, Magnus
作者单位：University of Navarra; IESE Business School; University System of Georgia; Georgia State University; University of Gottingen; Stockholm School of Economics
摘要：Though information technology (IT) transformation programs are gaining in importance, we know little about the nature of the challenges involved in such programs and how to manage them. Using grounded theory methodology, we conducted a multiyear case study of a large IT transformation program in a major commercial bank, during which we encountered the interrelated themes of paradoxes and ambidexterity. Grounded in our case, we construct a substantive theory of ambidexterity in IT transformatio...
