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作者：Lee, Eocman; Lee, Jeho; Lee, Jongseok
作者单位：Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST); Hallym University
摘要：The literature on network effects has popularized a hypothesis that competition between incompatible technologies results in the winner-take-all outcome. For the survival of the firm in this sort of competition, the installed base has been emphasized. We argue that the validity of this hypothesis depends on how customers interact with one another (e.g., if they exchange advice or files). In some interaction networks, customers influenced by their acquaintances may adopt a lagging technology ev...
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作者：Dellarocas, Chrysanthos
作者单位：University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park
摘要：There is growing evidence that consumers are influenced by Internet-based opinion forums before making a variety of purchase decisions. Firms whose products are being discussed in such forums are therefore tempted to manipulate consumer perceptions by posting costly anonymous messages that praise their products. This paper offers a theoretical analysis of the impact of such behavior on firm profits and consumer surplus. There are three main results. First, if every firm's manipulation strategy...
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作者：MacCormack, Alan; Rusnak, John; Baldwin, Carliss Y.
作者单位：Harvard University
摘要：This paper reports data from a study that seeks to characterize the differences in design structure between complex software products. We use design structure matrices (DSMs) to map dependencies between the elements of a design and define metrics that allow us to compare the structures of different designs. We use these metrics to compare the architectures of two software products-the Linux operating system and the Mozilla Web browser-that were developed via contrasting modes of organization: ...
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作者：von Krogh, Georg; von Hippel, Eric
作者单位：Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology Domain; ETH Zurich; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
摘要：Breaking with many established assumptions about how innovation ought to work, open source software projects offer eye-opening examples of novel innovation practices for students and practitioners in many fields. In this article we briefly review existing research on the open source phenomenon and discuss the utility of open source software research findings for many other fields. We categorize the research into three areas: motivations of open source software contributors; governance, organiz...
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作者：Venkatesh, R; Chintagunta, P; Mahajan, V
作者单位：Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); University of Pittsburgh; University of Chicago; University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin
摘要：We propose the optimal strategies in the end-product market for manufacturers of proprietary component brands' MPCBs for short. MPCBs can pursue one of three end-product roles: sole entrant, as with 3Com that, until recently, offered its Palm operating system only as part of its own Palm handheld devices; co-optor, as with Canon, whose specialty motors go into its own and HP laser printers; component supplier, as with Intel, which has refrained from making its own PCs. Applying extant theoreti...
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作者：Kalnins, A; Chung, W
作者单位：Cornell University; University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park
摘要：Immigrant entrepreneurs often rely on their group's local social capital in their new home market to establish and maintain their businesses. In particular, immigrant entrepreneurs with few resources of their own receive help from those possessing more resources. Supporting these arguments using the empirical setting of Gujarati immigrant entrepreneurs in the lodging industry, we find that the likelihood of survival of an immigrant entrepreneur's hotel increases when surrounded by higher count...
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作者：Malhotra, Naresh K.; Kim, Sung S.; Patil, Ashutosh
作者单位：University System of Georgia; Georgia Institute of Technology; University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Madison
摘要：Despite recurring concerns about common method variance (CMV) in survey research, the information systems (IS) community remains largely uncertain of the extent of such potential biases. To address this uncertainty, this paper attempts to systematically examine the impact of CMV on the inferences drawn from survey research in the IS area. First, we describe the available approaches for assessing CMV and conduct an empirical study to compare them. From an actual survey involving 227 respondents...
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作者：Tomlin, Brian
作者单位：University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
摘要：We study a single-product setting in which a firm can source from two suppliers, one that is unreliable and another that is reliable but more expensive. Suppliers are capacity constrained, but the reliable supplier may possess volume flexibility. We prove that in the special case in which the reliable supplier has no flexibility and the unreliable supplier has infinite capacity, a risk-neutral firm will pursue a single disruption-management strategy: mitigation by carrying inventory, mitigatio...
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作者：Croson, R; Donohue, K
作者单位：University of Pennsylvania; University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities
摘要：The tendency of orders to increase in variability as one moves up a supply chain is commonly known as the bullwhip effect. We study this phenomenon from a behavioral perspective in the context of a simple, serial, supply chain subject to information lags and stochastic demand. We conduct two experiments on two different sets of participants. In the first, we find the bullwhip effect still exists when normal operational causes (e.g., batching, price fluctuations, demand estimation, etc.) are re...
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作者：Anderson, Eric T.; Fitzsimons, Gavan J.; Simester, Duncan
作者单位：Northwestern University; Duke University; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
摘要：T here is now an extensive theoretical literature investigating optimal inventory policies for retailers. Yet several recent reviews have recognized that these models are rarely applied in practice. One explanation for the paucity of practical applications is the difficulty of measuring how stockouts affect both current and future demand. In this paper, we report the findings of a large-scale field test that measures the short- and long-run opportunity cost of a stockout. The findings confirm ...
