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作者：Mani, Deepa; Srikanth, Kannan; Bharadwaj, Anandhi
作者单位：Indian School of Business (ISB); Singapore Management University; Emory University
摘要：Seizing the latest technological advances in distributed work, an increasing number of firms have set up offshore captive centers (CCs) in emerging economies to carry out sophisticated R&D work. We analyze survey data from 132 R&D CCs established by foreign multinational companies in India to understand how firms execute distributed innovative work. Specifically, we examine the performance outcomes of projects using different technology-enabled coordination strategies to manage their interdepe...
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作者：Moreno, Antonio; Terwiesch, Christian
作者单位：Northwestern University; University of Pennsylvania
摘要：Online service marketplaces allow service buyers to post their project requests and service providers to bid for them. To reduce the transactional risks, marketplaces typically track and publish previous seller performance. By analyzing a detailed transactional data set with more than 1,800,000 bids corresponding to 270,000 projects posted between 2001 and 2010 in a leading online intermediary for software development services, we empirically study the effects of the reputation system on marke...
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作者：Forman, Chris; King, John Leslie; Lyytinen, Kalle
作者单位：University System of Georgia; Georgia Institute of Technology; University of Michigan System; University of Michigan; University System of Ohio; Case Western Reserve University
摘要：The information systems field started with the expectation that information and technology will significantly shape the nature of work. The topic provides ample scope for significant scholarly inquiry. Work content, process, and organization are now different from what they were in the 1960s and 1970s, which provided a foundation for theories and understanding. Although investigations about the changing nature of work have been made for years, this special section recognizes that the time of r...
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作者：Kallinikos, Jannis; Tempini, Niccolo
作者单位：University of London; London School Economics & Political Science
摘要：This paper investigates a web-based, medical research network that relies on patient self-reporting to collect and analyze data on the health status of patients, mostly suffering from severe conditions. The network organizes patient participation in ways that break with the strong expert culture of medical research. Patient data entry is largely unsupervised. It relies on a data architecture that encodes medical knowledge and medical categories, yet remains open to capturing details of patient...
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作者：Lukyanenko, Roman; Parsons, Jeffrey; Wiersma, Yolanda F.
作者单位：State University System of Florida; Florida International University; Memorial University Newfoundland; Memorial University Newfoundland
摘要：User-generated content (UGC) is becoming a valuable organizational resource, as it is seen in many cases as a way to make more information available for analysis. To make effective use of UGC, it is necessary to understand information quality (IQ) in this setting. Traditional IQ research focuses on corporate data and views users as data consumers. However, as users with varying levels of expertise contribute information in an open setting, current conceptualizations of IQ break down. In partic...
