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作者：Chakravarty, Anindita; Grewal, Rajdeep; Sambamurthy, V.
作者单位：University System of Georgia; University of Georgia; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University; Pennsylvania State University - University Park; Michigan State University; Michigan State University's Broad College of Business
摘要：The hypercompetitive aspects of modern business environments have drawn organizational attention toward agility as a strategic capability. Information technologies are expected to be an important competency in the development of organizational agility. This research proposes two distinct roles to understand how information technology competencies shape organizational agility and firm performance. In their enabling role, IT competencies are expected to directly enhance entrepreneurial and adapt...
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作者：Im, Kun Shin; Grover, Varun; Teng, James T. C.
作者单位：Yonsei University; Clemson University; University of Texas System; University of Texas Arlington
摘要：The relationship between information technology (IT) and a key organizational design variable, firm size, is an important area of study, particularly given the ongoing transition to an information-based economy. To better understand the more nuanced aspects of the relationship, we formulated a bidirectional and time-lagged model that incorporates different perspectives from organizational theories and transaction cost economics. Our two models-the bidirectional and one-year lagged model and th...
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作者：Oezpolat, Koray; Gao, Guodong (Gordon); Jank, Wolfgang; Viswanathan, Siva
作者单位：University of Rhode Island; University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park; State University System of Florida; University of South Florida
摘要：Third-party quality assurance seals have emerged as a prominent mechanism to reduce uncertainty and increase purchase conversion in online markets. However, systematic studies of the effectiveness of these seals are scarce. In this study, we exploit a unique data set of 9,098 shopping sessions at an online retailer's website to empirically measure the value and effectiveness of assurance seals on the likelihood of purchase by shoppers. The data set is collected from a randomized field experime...
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作者：August, Terrence; Shin, Hyoduk; Tunca, Tunay I.
作者单位：University of California System; University of California San Diego; University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park
摘要：Open source software is becoming increasingly prominent, and the economic structure of open-source development is changing. In recent years, firms motivated by revenues from software services markets have become the primary contributors to open-source development. In this paper we study the role of services in open source software development and explore the choice between open source and proprietary software. Specifically, our economic model jointly analyzes the investment and pricing decisio...
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作者：Hann, Il-Horn; Roberts, Jeffrey A.; Slaughter, Sandra A.
作者单位：University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park; Duquesne University; University System of Georgia; Georgia Institute of Technology
摘要：Open source software (OSS) communities live and die with the continuous contributions of programmers who often participate without direct remuneration. An intriguing question is whether such sustained participation in OSS projects yields economic benefits to the participants. Moreover, as participants engage in OSS projects, they take on different roles and activities in the community. This raises additional questions of whether different forms of participation in OSS communities are associate...
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作者：Thirumalai, Sriram; Sinha, Kingshuk K.
作者单位：Utah System of Higher Education; University of Utah; University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities
摘要：Personalization technologies today enable retailers to tailor online purchase interactions to the individual preferences and needs of customers. With personalization being increasingly perceived as a source of competitive advantage, there is a growing trend toward pursuing technology-enabled personalization strategies in online retailing. However, the choice of a retailer whether or not to select into technology-enabled personalization and its implications for customer loyalty are at best ambi...
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作者：Gupta, Saurabh; Bostrom, Robert
作者单位：State University System of Florida; University of North Florida; University System of Georgia; University of Georgia
摘要：The growth in the application of information technology to student and employee learning underscores the need to understand the impact of technology-mediated learning (TML) methods. Using previous developed TML models, based on social cognitive theory and adaptive structuration meta-theory, the effectiveness of three training methods were examined in this study: technology mediated (using both vicarious and enactive learning), and collaborative and combined (collaborative plus technology media...
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作者：Lee, Chul Ho; Geng, Xianjun; Raghunathan, Srinivasan
作者单位：University System of Ohio; Xavier University; University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas
摘要：In information security outsourcing, it is the norm that the outsourcing firms and the outsourcers (commonly called managed security service providers, MSSPs) need to coordinate their efforts for better security. Nevertheless, efforts are often private and thus both firms and MSSPs can suffer from double moral hazard. Furthermore, the double moral hazard problem in security outsourcing is complicated by the existence of strong externality and the multiclient nature of MSSP services. In this pr...
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作者：Chatterjee, Dipanjan; Ravichandran, T.
作者单位：Brock University; Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
摘要：In this paper we examine why firms seek to control and own interorganizational information systems, or IOS. Practitioners have largely cited the issues related to control and ownership of IOS, referred to as IOS governance in this paper, as the key reason behind the failure of many IOS initiatives. We distinguish between two IOS governance modes, transactional and financial, and develop a mediated-moderation model to explain the factors influencing the governance choices. In our model, the key...
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作者：Bardhan, Indranil; Krishnan, Viswanathan; Lin, Shu
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas; University of California System; University of California San Diego; California State University System; California State University Fresno
摘要：The business case for investing in information technology (IT) has received increasing scrutiny in recent years. We propose that IT investments create additional business value through interactions with other business processes. In this paper, we formalize the interaction effect of IT by focusing on one core function, namely, research and development (R&D). We hypothesize that investments in IT can interact with and complement a firm's R&D investments, enhancing the firm's shareholder value cr...
