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作者：Choudhary, Vidyanand
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Irvine
摘要：Information goods vendors offer different pricing schemes such as per user pricing and site licensing. Why do competing sellers adopt different pricing schemes for the same information good? Pricing schemes affect buyers' usage levels and thus the revenue generated from different segments of buyers. This can allow competing firms in a duopoly to differentiate themselves by offering different pricing schemes. Such strategic use of pricing schemes can allow undifferentiated sellers to earn subst...
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作者：Dey, Debabrata; Fan, Ming; Zhang, Conglei
作者单位：University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle
摘要：Outsourcing of software development allows a business to focus on its core competency and take advantage of vendors' technical expertise, economies of scale and scope, and their ability to smooth labor demand fluctuations across several clients. However, contracting a software project to an outside developer is often quite challenging because of information asymmetry and incentive divergence. A typical software development contract must deal with a variety of interrelated issues such as the qu...
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作者：Arora, Ashish; Krishnan, Ramayya; Telang, Rahul; Yang, Yubao
作者单位：Carnegie Mellon University
摘要：A key aspect of better and more secure software is timely patch release by software vendors for the vulnerabilities in their products. Software vulnerability disclosure, which refers to the publication of vulnerability information, has generated intense debate. An important consideration in this debate is the behavior of software vendors. How quickly do vendors patch vulnerabilities and how does disclosure affect patch release time? This paper compiles a unique data set from the Computer Emerg...
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作者：Greenwald, Amy; Kannan, Karthik; Krishnan, Ramayya
作者单位：Brown University; Purdue University System; Purdue University; Carnegie Mellon University
摘要：Each market session in a reverse electronic marketplace features a procurer and many suppliers. An important attribute of a market session chosen by the procurer is its information revelation policy. The revelation policy determines the information (such as the number of competitors, the winning bids, etc.) that will be revealed to participating suppliers at the conclusion of each market session. Suppliers participating in multiple market sessions use strategic bidding and fake their own cost ...
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作者：Susarla, Anjana; Subramanyam, Ramanath; Karhade, Prasanna
作者单位：University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle; University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
摘要：T he complexity and scope of outsourced information technology (IT) demands relationship-specific investments from vendors, which, when combined with contract incompleteness, may result in underinvestment and inefficient bargaining, referred to as the holdup problem. Using a unique data set of over 100 IT outsourcing contracts, we examine whether contract extensiveness, i.e., the extent to which firms and vendors can foresee contingencies when designing contracts for outsourced IT services, ca...
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作者：Boylu, Fidan; Aytug, Haldun; Koehler, Gary J.
作者单位：University of Connecticut; State University System of Florida; University of Florida
摘要：W e study the problem where a decision maker needs to discover a classification rule to classify intelligent, self-interested agents. Agents may engage in strategic behavior to alter their characteristics for a favorable classification. We show how the decision maker can induce a classification rule that anticipates such behavior while still satisfying an important risk minimization principle.
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作者：Animesh, Animesh; Ramachandran, Vandana; Viswanathan, Siva
作者单位：McGill University; Utah System of Higher Education; University of Utah; University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park
摘要：Online sponsored search advertising has emerged as the dominant online advertising format largely because of their pay-for-performance nature, wherein advertising expenditures are closely tied to outcomes. While the pay-for-performance format substantially reduces the wastage incurred by advertisers compared to traditional pay-per-exposure advertising formats, the reduction of such wastage also carries the risk of reducing the signaling properties of advertising. Lacking a separating equilibri...
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作者：Allen, Gove; Parsons, Jeffrey
作者单位：Brigham Young University; Memorial University Newfoundland
摘要：Reusing database queries by adapting them to satisfy new information requests is an attractive strategy for extracting information from databases without involving database specialists. However, the reuse of information systems artifacts has been shown to be susceptible to the phenomenon of anchoring and adjustment. Anchoring often leads to a systematic adjustment bias in which people fail to make sufficient changes to an anchor in response to the needs of a new task. In a study involving 157 ...
