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作者:Zheng, Zhiqiang (Eric); Fader, Peter; Padmanabhan, Balaji
作者单位:University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas; University of Pennsylvania; State University System of Florida; University of South Florida
摘要:Managers routinely seek to understand firm performance relative to the competitors. Recently, competitive intelligence (CI) has emerged as an important area within business intelligence (BI) where the emphasis is on understanding and measuring a firm's external competitive environment. A requirement of such systems is the availability of the rich data about a firm's competitors, which is typically hard to acquire. This paper proposes a method to incorporate competitive intelligence in BI syste...
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作者:Yang, Sung-Byung; Lim, Jee-Hae; Oh, Wonseok; Animesh, Artimesh; Pinsonneault, Alain
作者单位:Yonsei University; University of Waterloo; McGill University; Hansung University
摘要:Virtual worlds are relatively nascent IT platforms with the potential to radically transform business processes and generate significant payoffs. However, in striving to achieve specific outcomes, firms may incur significant risks. Although many companies claim to have attained substantial benefits from their virtual world initiatives, many others have recently scaled down or even abandoned their experimental virtual world projects. This paper assesses the value proposition of virtual world in...
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作者:Yao, Yuliang; Zhu, Kevin Xiaoguo
作者单位:Lehigh University; University of California System; University of California San Diego
摘要:The bullwhip effect is a major source of supply chain inefficiency. Whereas prior literature has identified a number of potential contributing factors and recommended such remedies as information sharing enabled by information technology (IT) or electronic linkage (EL), few studies have provided empirical support. We use industry-level data to examine whether EL use with buyer and supplier industries helps reduce the bullwhip effect as measured by inventory demand variance ratio. Our major fin...
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作者:Aggarwal, Rohit; Gopal, Ram; Gupta, Alok; Singh, Harpreet
作者单位:Utah System of Higher Education; University of Utah; University of Connecticut; University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities; University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas
摘要:External financing is critical to ventures that do not have a revenue source but need to recruit employees, develop products, pay suppliers, and market their products/services. There is an increasing belief among entrepreneurs that electronic word-of-mouth (eWOM), specifically blog coverage, can aid in achieving venture capital financing. Conflicting findings reported by past studies examining eWOM make it unclear what to make of such beliefs of entrepreneurs. Even if there were generally agre...
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作者:Hsu, Carol; Lee, Jae-Nam; Straub, Detmar W.
作者单位:National Taiwan University; Korea University; University System of Georgia; Georgia State University
摘要:This research investigates information security management as an administrative innovation. Although a number of institutional theories deal with information systems (IS) innovation in organizations, most of these institutional-centered frameworks overlook external economic efficiency and internal organizational capability in the presence of pressures of institutional conformity. Using Korea as the institutional setting, our research model posits that economic-based consideration will moderate...