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作者：Peng, Jing; Liang, Chen
作者单位：University of Connecticut
摘要：E-commerce platforms often use collaborative filtering (CF) algorithms to recommend products to consumers. What recommendations consumers receive and how they respond to the recommendations largely depend on the design of CF algorithms. However, the extant empirical research on recommender systems has primarily focused on how the presence of recommendations affects product demand, without considering the underlying algorithm design. Leveraging a field experiment on a major e-commerce platform,...
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作者：Bapna, Sofia; Ganco, Martin
作者单位：University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities; University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Madison
摘要：We examine whether equity crowdfunding democratizes access to funding for nontraditional user entrepreneurs. User entrepreneurs start by creating a product to serve their own unmet needs with no expectations of monetary profit, then later decide to commercialize the product through entrepreneurship. In contrast, traditional (producer) entrepreneurs take a more profit-driven path to entrepreneurship and start by identifying an opportunity that has commercial potential. Through a randomized fiel...
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作者：Kokkodis, Marios; Adamopoulos, Panagiotis; Ransbotham, Sam
作者单位：Emory University; Boston College
摘要：Digital markets have proliferated in recent years, overcoming many market inefficiencies by facilitating direct interactions between consumers and creators. Thanks to this disintermediation, consumers now have access to a vast number of alternatives, while creators can efficiently reach huge markets. However, the success of digital markets has created a concomitant challenge for creators: differentiation. In crowded markets, agencies (e.g., publishing companies in books, freelance agencies in ...
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作者：Havakhor, Taha; Golmohammadi, Alireza; Sabherwal, Rajiv; Gauri, Dinesh K.
作者单位：McGill University; University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Charlotte; University of Arkansas System; University of Arkansas Fayetteville
摘要：Online equity markets have significantly changed the dynamics of connecting angels and individual equity investors to new ventures that seek early-stage capital. However, for those early-stage investors, information pointing to the success of business-to-business (B2B) new ventures (B2BNVs) is scattered and disconnected. This paper focuses on social media narratives (SMNs) as a source of insight for such investors and proposes that predicting a B2BNV's likelihood of success requires a comparat...
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作者：Laitenberger, Ulrich; Viete, Steffen; Slivko, Olga; Kummer, Michael; Borchert, Kathrin; Hirth, Matthias
作者单位：Tilburg University; Leibniz Association; Zentrum fur Europaische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW); Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC; Erasmus University Rotterdam; University of East Anglia; University of Wurzburg; Technische Universitat Ilmenau
摘要：We analyze the relationship between unemployment and the supply of online labor for microtasking. Using detailed U.S. data from a large microtasking platform between 2011 and 2015, we study the participation and the number of hours supplied by workers in the U.S. We found that more individuals registered on the platform and completed microtasks as the unemployment level in the commuting zone increased. This effect was strongest in regions with a high share of low-skilled workers. Our analyses ...
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作者：Brown, Susan A.; Sias, Richard W.
作者单位：University of Arizona; University of Arizona
摘要：There is a growing interest in understanding the role of genetics in explaining heterogeneity in behaviors, including those related to information systems (IS). The majority of the recent genetics research focuses on searching the entire genome in genome-wide association studies (GWASs) to link DNA to human traits. The results of GWASs can be used on datasets to compute a measure of genetic propensity known as a polygenic score, or PGS. PGSs are widely viewed as the future of genetics research...
