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作者：Cheng, Hsing Kenneth; Bandyopadhyay, Subhajyoti; Guo, Hong
作者单位：State University System of Florida; University of Florida; University of Notre Dame
摘要：The status quo of prohibiting broadband service providers from charging websites for preferential access to their customers-the bedrock principle of net neutrality (NN)-is under fierce debate. We develop a game-theoretic model to address two critical issues of NN: (1) Who are gainers and losers of abandoning NN? (2) Will broadband service providers have greater incentive to expand their capacity without NN? We find that if the principle of NN is abolished, the broadband service provider stands...
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作者：Kwan, Samuel S. K.; So, Mike K. P.; Tam, Kar Yan
作者单位：Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
摘要：Research on software piracy often relies on self-reports by individual users and thus suffers from possible response distortion attributable to a variety of human motivations. Conclusions drawn directly from distorted self-reports may misguide managerial and policy decisions. The randomized response technique (RRT) was proposed as a remedy to response distortion. In this paper, a model based on RRT was used to illustrate how truthful responses to sensitive questions can be empirically estimate...
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作者：Schultze, Ulrike; Orlikowski, Wanda J.
作者单位：Southern Methodist University; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
摘要：Virtual worlds are immersive, simulated, persistent, and dynamic environments that include rich graphical three dimensional spaces, high fidelity audio, motion, viewpoint, and interactivity. Initially dismissed as environments of play, virtual worlds have gained legitimacy in business and educational settings for their application in globally distributed work, project management, online learning, and real-time simulation. Understanding the emergent aspects of these virtual worlds and their imp...
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作者：Mishra, Abhay Nath; Agarwal, Ritu
作者单位：University System of Georgia; Georgia State University; University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park
摘要：The process by which organizations incorporate technological innovations into existing routines and use them on a regular basis persists as a central concern in the literature. Although we now have a fairly robust understanding of the drivers of innovation adoption, the use of innovations is less understood. In this paper, we draw on two streams of literature, managerial and organizational sensemaking, and organizational capabilities that have hitherto been used independently, to investigate o...
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作者：Choudhary, Vidyanand
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Irvine
摘要：Information goods vendors offer different pricing schemes such as per user pricing and site licensing. Why do competing sellers adopt different pricing schemes for the same information good? Pricing schemes affect buyers' usage levels and thus the revenue generated from different segments of buyers. This can allow competing firms in a duopoly to differentiate themselves by offering different pricing schemes. Such strategic use of pricing schemes can allow undifferentiated sellers to earn subst...
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作者：Chang, Ray M.; Oh, Wonseok; Pinsonneault, Alain; Kwon, Dowan
作者单位：McGill University; Yonsei University; Concordia University - Canada
摘要：Using agent-based simulation experiments, we investigate the outcome of SAs between two smaller online search engine companies in competition with a dominant market leader in settings where an advertiser's decision making is the consequence of a combination of NI (e. g., an individual's willingness to follow others' decisions) and IP. In particular, we focus on a context in which the combined search engine company competes with a market leader holding a larger share of the market than the two ...
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作者：Ferrier, Walter J.; Holsapple, Clyde W.; Sabherwal, Rajiv
作者单位：University of Kentucky; University of Missouri System; University of Missouri Saint Louis
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作者：Jarvenpaa, Sirkka L.; Majchrzak, Ann
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin; Aalto University; University of Southern California
摘要：Online participation engenders both the benefits of knowledge sharing and the risks of harm. Vigilant interaction in knowledge collaboration refers to an interactive emergent dialogue in which knowledge is shared while it is protected, requiring deep appraisals of each others' actions in order to determine how each action may influence the outcomes of the collaboration. Vigilant interactions are critical in online knowledge collaborations under ambivalent relationships where users collaborate ...
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作者：Li, Shanling; Shang, Jennifer; Slaughter, Sandra A.
作者单位：McGill University; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); University of Pittsburgh; University System of Georgia; Georgia Institute of Technology
摘要：This study examines why firms fail or survive in the volatile software industry. We provide a novel perspective by considering how software firms' capabilities and their competitive actions affect their ultimate survival. Drawing on the resource-based view (RBV), we conceptualize capabilities as a firm's ability to efficiently transform input resources into outputs, relative to its peers. We define three critical capabilities of software-producing firms-research and development (RD), marketing...
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作者：Vannoy, Sandra A.; Salam, A. F.
作者单位：University of North Carolina; Appalachian State University; University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Greensboro
摘要：Using an interpretive grounded theory research approach, we investigate the utilization of organization-wide information systems in the competitive actions and responses undertaken by top managers to sustain their firms' leading competitive position. Our central contribution is a model that explicates the role of information systems in the process by which competitive actions or responses are conceived, enacted, and executed, and resulting impacts on firm performance-issues that have been larg...
