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作者：Ou, Carol Xiaojuan; Pavlou, Paul A.; Davison, Robert M.
作者单位：Tilburg University; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Temple University; City University of Hong Kong
摘要：The concept of guanxi (i.e., a close and pervasive interpersonal relationship) has received little attention in the literature on online marketplaces, perhaps due to their impersonal nature. However, we propose that computer-mediated communication (CMC) technologies can mimic traditional interactive face-to-face communications, thus enabling a form of guanxi in online marketplaces. Extending the literature on traditional guanxi, we herein introduce the concept of swift guanxi, conceptualized a...
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作者：Chen, Jianqing; Stallaert, Jan
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas; University of Connecticut
摘要：Online publishers and advertisers have recently shown increasing interest in using targeted advertising online. Such targeting allows them to present users with advertisements that are a better match, based on their past browsing and search behavior and other available information (e.g., hobbies registered on a web site). This technique, known as behavioral targeting, has been hailed as the new Holy Grail in online advertising because of its potential effectiveness. In this paper, we study the...
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作者：Chae, Ho-Chang; Koh, Chang E.; Prybutok, Victor R.
作者单位：University of North Texas System; University of North Texas Denton
摘要：Several studies support the positive link between information technology capability and firm performance, including Bharadwaj (2000) and Santhanam and Hartono (2003), which appeared in MIS Quarterly. We conducted a study to see if this link is still statistically significant. It is now over a decade since the first study was published, during which several significant developments in the IT industry have taken place. Unlike the 1990s, when proprietary information systems prevailed, the 2000s a...
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作者：Chan, Jason; Ghose, Anindya
作者单位：University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities; New York University; Korea University
摘要：Online platforms offer access to a larger social group than is generally available through offline contacts, making the Internet an emerging venue for seeking casual sex partners. The ease of seeking sex partners through classified ad sites may promote risky behaviors that increase the transmission of STDs. In this paper, using a natural experiment setup, we investigate whether the entry of a major online personals ad site, Craigslist, increases the prevalence of HIV over a 10 year period from...
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作者：Mazmanian, Melissa; Cohn, Marisa; Dourish, Paul
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Irvine
摘要：In taking into account the ways in which material and social realms are constitutively entangled within organizations, it is rhetorically tempting to say that technologies and social structures reconfigure each other. But what does it mean to reconfigure? How does one figure the other and how do we fully embrace a mutually constitutive relationship when examining fluid relations? This paper delves into these questions by exploring how physical, social, material, technological, and organization...
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作者：Fichman, Robert G.; Dos Santos, Brian L.; Zheng, Zhiqiang (Eric)
作者单位：Boston College; University of Louisville; University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas
摘要：The 50-year march of Moore's Law has led to the creation of a relatively cheap and increasingly easy-to-use world-wide digital infrastructure of computers, mobile devices, broadband network connections, and advanced application platforms. This digital infrastructure has, in turn, accelerated the emergence of new technologies that enable transformations in how we live and work, how companies organize, and the structure of entire industries. As a result, it has become important for all business ...
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作者：O'Leary, Michael Boyer; Wilson, Jeanne M.; Metiu, Anca
作者单位：Georgetown University; William & Mary; ESSEC Business School
摘要：Using a mixed-methods approach, we develop the concept of perceived proximity, which is created through communication, shared identity, and the symbolic aspects thereof. Building on previous theoretical work, we create and validate measures of perceived proximity. Then, we compare how perceived proximity and objective distance relate to relationship quality for collocated and geographically dispersed work colleagues. Our results show that perceived proximity (i.e., a cognitive and affective se...
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作者：Johnson, Steven L.; Faraj, Samer; Kudaravalli, Srinivas
作者单位：Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Temple University; McGill University; Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC) Paris
摘要：Online communities bring together individuals with shared interest in joint action or sustained interaction. Power law distributions of user popularity appear ubiquitous in online communities but their formation mechanisms are not well understood. This study tests for the emergence of power law distributions via the mechanisms of preferential attachment, least efforts, direct reciprocity, and indirect reciprocity. Preferential attachment, where new entrants favor connections with already popul...
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作者：Gerow, Jennifer E.; Grover, Varun; Thatcher, Jason; Roth, Philip L.
作者单位：Clemson University
摘要：Research examining the relationship between IT-business strategic alignment (hereafter referred to as alignment) and firm performance (hereafter referred to as performance) has produced apparently conflicting findings (i.e., an alignment paradox). To examine the alignment paradox, we conducted a meta-analysis that probed the interrelationships between alignment, performance, and context constructs. We found the alignment dimensions (intellectual, operational, and cross-domain) demonstrate uniq...
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作者：Ludwig, Stephan; de Ruyter, Ko; Mahr, Dominik; Wetzels, Martin; Bruggen, Elisabeth
作者单位：University of Westminster; Maastricht University
摘要：User communities are increasingly becoming an essential element of companies' business processes. However, reaping the benefits of such social systems does not always prove effective, often because companies fail to stimulate members' collaboration continuously or neglect their social integration. Following communication accommodation theory, the authors posit that members' communication style alignment symbolically reflects their community identification and affects subsequent participation b...
