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作者:Han, Yingru Ruby; Sharma, Luv; Pekgun, Pelin
作者单位:Clemson University; University of South Carolina System; University of South Carolina Columbia; Wake Forest University
摘要:Nonprofit organizations (NPOs) rely heavily on fundraising activities to generate the resources necessary to fulfill their missions and sustain their programs and services. While fundraising is inherently labor-intensive, current research often overlooks the return on labor investment when evaluating performance. Furthermore, NPOs face a critical decision regarding the allocation of fundraising teams across diverse solicitation methods to generate revenue, yet existing literature presents conf...
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作者:Wagner, Stephan M.; Hora, Manpreet S.; Mateska, Ivana
作者单位:Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology Domain; ETH Zurich; University System of Georgia; Georgia Institute of Technology
摘要:In the life sciences industry, pharmaceutical firms often collaborate with biotechnology firms to access technological expertise and R&D capabilities, enabling them to accelerate innovation and bring products to market more effectively. In this study, we examine the collaboration experiences of biotechnology startups and pharmaceutical firms in 287 biotech-pharma partnerships and analyze how firms' experience impacts the likelihood of product commercialization. Experience is defined as the num...
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作者:Krishna, Praharshita; Majumdar, Adrija; Bose, Indranil
作者单位:Mahindra University; Indian Institute of Management (IIM System); Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad
摘要:A developer's popularity plays a crucial role in their success within open source software (OSS) communities and their access to sponsorship opportunities. This study seeks to answer the question: which signals have the most predictive power for popularity and sponsorship volume on social coding platforms? Using algorithm-supported abductive theory generation supplemented by qualitative insights from observations and interviews, we arrive at a theory of peer evaluation in OSS communities. We e...
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作者:Wang, Tom (Tianteng); Xu, David (Jingjun); Siau, Keng Leng; Zhang, Zhongju (John)
作者单位:Renmin University of China; City University of Hong Kong; City University of Hong Kong; Singapore Management University; Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe
摘要:The number of recruitment postings on digital recruitment hiring platforms has increased since the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the weak surveillance and operations of these platforms, combined with the fact that most job seekers have relatively low vigilance and a strong desire for recruitment offers, enable scammers to easily deceive job seekers for their money and confidential information. In this work, we combine prevailing text mining techniques (i.e., ChatGPT with prompting engineering an...
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作者:Pal, Sukrit; Hoang, Thu Trang
作者单位:Iowa State University; University of Texas System; University of Texas Arlington
摘要:In response to social protests, transportation network companies introduced incentive programs to improve hourly utilization and retain drivers. While such initiatives assume increased driver commitment, their impact on labor allocation across competing gig economy platforms remains unexplored. This study uses a quasi-experimental design and analyzes 20 weeks of data comprising over 75 million trips to examine spillover effects of an East Asian platform's comprehensive personnel on-road insura...
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作者:Liu, Weiliang; Sun, Qiuzhuang; Tang, Loon Ching; Ye, Zhisheng
作者单位:University of Chicago; Chinese University of Hong Kong; University of Sydney; National University of Singapore
摘要:This paper studies the data-driven design of a smart emergency response system for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) that involves drones for automatic external defibrillator delivery and community responders alerted via a mobile application, in addition to ambulances. Our study is motivated by the widespread exploration of drones for delivery service, and the emergence of mobile applications that crowdsource community for emergency response. Based on a historical OHCA dataset with communi...
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作者:Gu, Wei; Li, Meng; Zhang, Shichen
作者单位:University of Science & Technology Beijing; University of Houston System; University of Houston; Tianjin University
摘要:In this article, we explore the impact of implementing an algorithmic supervisor, a data analytics tool that offers real-time feedback to employees, on their overall performance. We collaborate with a leading service company that initiated the transition from human supervisors to an algorithmic supervisor for managing call agents in their outbound call center on September 18, 2019. We collect data for 220,085 calls over a span of 6 months-that is, 3 months before and 3 months after the introdu...
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作者:Yin, Zhe; Huang, Tingliang
作者单位:Chinese Academy of Sciences; University of Science & Technology of China, CAS; University of Tennessee System; University of Tennessee Knoxville
摘要:Customized mystery bag/box products are examples of a new business model of combining probabilistic selling and customization in practice. We develop an analytical framework to study the economic value of customized mystery bag/box products and explore the interrelationship between probabilistic selling and customization. We define probabilistic selling and customization to be complements (substitutes) as that customization increases (decreases) the value of probabilistic selling. We find that...
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作者:Chen, Ningyuan; Yang, Shuoguang; Zhang, Hailun
作者单位:University of Toronto; Hong Kong University of Science & Technology; The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
摘要:In the multi-armed bandit framework, there are two formulations that are commonly employed to handle time-varying reward distributions: adversarial bandit and nonstationary bandit. Although their oracles, algorithms, and regret analysis differ significantly, we provide a unified formulation in this article that smoothly bridges the two as special cases. The formulation uses an oracle that takes the best action sequences within a switch budget. Depending on the switch budget, it turns into the ...
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作者:Chen, Hongqiao; Chen, Ying-Ju; Li, Yang; Zhang, Xiaoquan (Michael); Zhou, Sean X.
作者单位:Nanjing University; Hong Kong University of Science & Technology; Hong Kong University of Science & Technology; Western University (University of Western Ontario); Chinese University of Hong Kong
摘要:The resale of used products presents the challenge of cannibalization, particularly pronounced in digital goods markets where perfect substitutes are easily replicable. In this article, we assert that, rather than a threat, resale can serve as an effective pricing tool for managing heterogeneous demand. We consider a seller of digital goods/services who offers a contract to a heterogeneous group of customers at a fixed price for a specified amount of usage allowance. Rather than imposing restr...