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作者：Bampo, Mauro; Ewing, Michael T.; Mather, Dineli R.; Stewart, David; Wallace, Mark
作者单位：Monash University; Monash University; Deakin University
摘要：Viral marketing is a form of peer-to-peer communication in which individuals are encouraged to pass on promotional messages within their social networks. Conventional wisdom holds that the viral marketing process is both random and unmanageable. In this paper, we deconstruct the process and investigate the formation of the activated digital network as distinct from the underlying social network. We then consider the impact of the social structure of digital networks (random, scale free, and sm...
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作者：Ragu-Nathan, T. S.; Tarafdar, Monideepa; Ragu-Nathan, Bhanu S.; Tu, Qiang
作者单位：University System of Ohio; University of Toledo; Rochester Institute of Technology
摘要：The research reported in this paper studies the phenomenon of technostress, that is, stress experienced by end users of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), and examines its influence on their job satisfaction, commitment to the organization, and intention to stay. Drawing from the Transaction-Based Model of stress and prior research on the effects of ICTs on end users, we first conceptually build a nomological net for technostress to understand the influence of technostress on t...
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作者：Rustagi, Sandeep; King, William R.; Kirsch, Laurie J.
作者单位：Capgemini; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); University of Pittsburgh
摘要：Client control over the vendor has been identified as a critical factor in successfully managing information technology outsourcing relationships. Though prior studies have suggested that how much control is exercised has significant rami. cations for individuals and firms, relatively few studies have operationalized and studied this important concept. In this study, we de. ne the amount of formal control as the variety of mechanisms used by a client to exercise control over a vendor and the e...
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作者：Hinz, Oliver; Spann, Martin
作者单位：Goethe University Frankfurt; University of Passau
摘要：The interactive nature of the Internet promotes collaborative business models (e. g., auctions) and facilitates information-sharing via social networks. In Internet auctions, an important design option for sellers is the setting of a secret reserve price that has to be met by a buyer's bid for a successful purchase. Bidders have strong incentives to learn more about the secret reserve price in these auctions, thereby relying on their own network of friends or digital networks of users with sim...
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作者：Forman, Chris; Ghose, Anindya; Wiesenfeld, Batia
作者单位：University System of Georgia; Georgia Institute of Technology; New York University
摘要：Consumer-generated product reviews have proliferated online, driven by the notion that consumers' decision to purchase or not purchase a product is based on the positive or negative information about that product they obtain from fellow consumers. Using research on information processing as a foundation, we suggest that in the context of an online community, reviewer disclosure of identity-descriptive information is used by consumers to supplement or replace product information when making pur...
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作者：Du, Anna Ye; Geng, Xianjun; Gopal, Ram; Ramesh, R.; Whinston, Andrew B.
作者单位：State University of New York (SUNY) System; University at Buffalo, SUNY; University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle; University of Connecticut; University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin
摘要：With the rapid growth of rich-media content over the Internet, content and service providers (SP) are increasingly facing the problem of managing their service resources cost-effectively while ensuring a high quality of service (QoS) delivery at the same time. In this research we conceptualize and model an Internet-based storage provisioning network for rich-media content delivery. This is modeled as a capacity provision network (CPN) where participants possess service infrastructures and leve...
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作者：Santhanarn, Radhika; Sasidharan, Sharath; Webster, Jane
作者单位：University of Kentucky; Marshall University; Queens University - Canada
摘要：Technology-mediated learning methods are widely used by organizations and educational institutions to deliver information technology training. One form of technology-mediated learning, e-learning, in which the platform is the tutor, is quickly becoming the cost-effective solution of choice for many corporations. Unfortunately, the learning outcomes have been very disappointing. E-learning training makes an implicit assumption that learners can apply a high level of self-directed learning to as...
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作者：Wakefield, Robin L.; Leidner, Dorothy E.; Garrison, Gary
作者单位：Baylor University; Belmont University
摘要：Organizations in many different industries employ virtual teams in a variety of contexts, including research and development, customer support, software development, and product design. Many virtual teams are geographically and culturally dispersed in order to facilitate around-the-clock work and to allow the most qualified individuals to be assigned to a project team. As such dispersion increases, virtual teams tend to experience greater and more diverse conflict compared to co-located teams....
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作者：Hahn, Jungpil; Moon, Jae Yun; Zhang, Chen
作者单位：Purdue University System; Purdue University; Hong Kong University of Science & Technology; University of Memphis
摘要：Recent years have witnessed a surge in self-organizing voluntary teams collaborating online to produce goods and services. Motivated by this phenomenon, this research investigates how these teams are formed and how individuals make decisions about which teams to join in the context of open source software development (OSSD). The focus of this paper is to explore how the collaborative network affects developers' choice of newly initiated OSS projects to participate in. More specifically, by ana...
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作者：Dabbish, Laura; Kraut, Robert
作者单位：Carnegie Mellon University; Carnegie Mellon University
摘要：Researchers and designers have been building awareness displays to improve the coordination of communication between distributed co-workers since the early 1990s. Awareness displays are technology designed to provide contextual information about the activities of group members. Most researchers have assumed that these displays improve the coordination of communication regardless of the relationship between the communicating parties. This article examines the conditions under which awareness di...
