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作者：West, LA Jr
作者单位：State University System of Florida; University of Central Florida
摘要：The online database industry has annual sales of US$6.5 billion for a product that can be easily appropriated, duplicated, reused, and redistributed. This paper examines how the industry developed dynamic pricing and delivery strategies as a response to technological and market changes, and shows how each strategy specifically compensated for the public good properties of information. Readers will see that specific pricing strategies reduce the incentive to improperly reuse downloaded informat...
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作者：Thong, JYL; Yap, CS; Seah, KL
作者单位：Hong Kong University of Science & Technology; National University of Singapore
摘要：Our existing knowledge of business process reengineering (BPR) is mainly derived from the experiences of private sector organizations, which have fundamentally different characteristics from public organizations. This paper represents a first step in understanding how BPR may be different in public organizations. Drawing on the public administration literature, it examines the differences between public and private organizations and their implications for BPR. Following that, it examines the B...
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作者：Zwass, V
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作者：Byrd, TA; Turner, DE
作者单位：Auburn University System; Auburn University; University System of Georgia; University of West Georgia
摘要：Researchers and practitioners alike have taken note of the potential value of an organization's IT infrastructure. TT infrastructure expenditures account for over 58 percent of an organization's IT budget and the percentage is growing at If percent a year. Some even have called IT infrastructure the new competitive weapon and see it as being crucial in developing a sustained competitive advantage. Unique characteristics of an IT infrastructure determine the value of that infrastructure to an o...
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作者：Gupta, A; Jukic, B; Stahl, DO; Whinston, AB
作者单位：University of Connecticut; George Mason University; University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin
摘要：Internet traffic pricing is necessary for the vitality of electronic commerce because uncontrolled congestion creates a detrimental effect on quality of the Internet services. Pricing approaches based on negative externality have potential to address the issue of congestion. However, most externality-based pricing approaches require the knowledge of consumers' private demand characteristics, and this requirement is often pointed out as the single most important shortcoming of these mechanisms....
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作者：Hoxmeier, JA
作者单位：Colorado State University System; Colorado State University Fort Collins
摘要：Software preannouncements are often called vaporware (systems or features announced long before a ship date). The challenge confronting software vendors and consumers is understanding the balance between the need to inform the market and the negative consequences of unfulfilled promises. Based on signaling theory from marketing science and research, this study looks at the perceived importance of software preannouncement factors on customers, of unfulfilled promises and unreliable software on ...
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作者：Truman, GE
作者单位：Fordham University
摘要：Provided the increasing prevalence of electronic exchange environments-including propriety electronic data interchange (EDI) and some Internet-based EDI (e-commerce) systems-we argue that management's decision-making focus vis-g-vis electronic data interchange (EDI) assumes a tactical disposition rather than a strategic one. We offer that the formulation and execution of tactics may be organized around the general question of how to effectively integrate EDI with internal systems, since this a...
