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作者：Du, Anna Ye; Geng, Xianjun; Gopal, Ram; Ramesh, R.; Whinston, Andrew B.
作者单位：State University of New York (SUNY) System; University at Buffalo, SUNY; University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle; University of Connecticut; University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin
摘要：With the rapid growth of rich-media content over the Internet, content and service providers (SP) are increasingly facing the problem of managing their service resources cost-effectively while ensuring a high quality of service (QoS) delivery at the same time. In this research we conceptualize and model an Internet-based storage provisioning network for rich-media content delivery. This is modeled as a capacity provision network (CPN) where participants possess service infrastructures and leve...
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作者：Santhanarn, Radhika; Sasidharan, Sharath; Webster, Jane
作者单位：University of Kentucky; Marshall University; Queens University - Canada
摘要：Technology-mediated learning methods are widely used by organizations and educational institutions to deliver information technology training. One form of technology-mediated learning, e-learning, in which the platform is the tutor, is quickly becoming the cost-effective solution of choice for many corporations. Unfortunately, the learning outcomes have been very disappointing. E-learning training makes an implicit assumption that learners can apply a high level of self-directed learning to as...
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作者：Wakefield, Robin L.; Leidner, Dorothy E.; Garrison, Gary
作者单位：Baylor University; Belmont University
摘要：Organizations in many different industries employ virtual teams in a variety of contexts, including research and development, customer support, software development, and product design. Many virtual teams are geographically and culturally dispersed in order to facilitate around-the-clock work and to allow the most qualified individuals to be assigned to a project team. As such dispersion increases, virtual teams tend to experience greater and more diverse conflict compared to co-located teams....
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作者：Hahn, Jungpil; Moon, Jae Yun; Zhang, Chen
作者单位：Purdue University System; Purdue University; Hong Kong University of Science & Technology; University of Memphis
摘要：Recent years have witnessed a surge in self-organizing voluntary teams collaborating online to produce goods and services. Motivated by this phenomenon, this research investigates how these teams are formed and how individuals make decisions about which teams to join in the context of open source software development (OSSD). The focus of this paper is to explore how the collaborative network affects developers' choice of newly initiated OSS projects to participate in. More specifically, by ana...
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作者：Dabbish, Laura; Kraut, Robert
作者单位：Carnegie Mellon University; Carnegie Mellon University
摘要：Researchers and designers have been building awareness displays to improve the coordination of communication between distributed co-workers since the early 1990s. Awareness displays are technology designed to provide contextual information about the activities of group members. Most researchers have assumed that these displays improve the coordination of communication regardless of the relationship between the communicating parties. This article examines the conditions under which awareness di...
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作者：Wang, Jingguo; Chaudhury, Aby; Rao, H. Raghav
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Arlington; Bryant University; State University of New York (SUNY) System; University at Buffalo, SUNY
摘要：Information security investment has been getting increasing attention in recent years. Various methods have been proposed to determine the effective level of security investment. However, traditional expected value methods (such as annual loss expectancy) cannot fully characterize the information security risk confronted by organizations, considering some extremal yet perhaps relatively rare cases in which a security failure may be critical and cause high losses. In this research note we intro...
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作者：Kane, Gerald C.; Alavi, Maryam
作者单位：Boston College; Emory University
摘要：Information systems (IS) researchers have typically examined the user-system relationship as an isolated dyad between a single, independent user and an individual, freestanding information system. We argue that this conceptualization does not adequately represent most organizations today, in which multiple users interact with multiple information systems within a group. Relying heavily on the theory and methods behind social network analysis, we introduce the concept of multimodal networks to ...
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作者：Li, Xinxin; Hitt, Lorin M.
作者单位：University of Connecticut; University of Pennsylvania
摘要：Online product reviews may be subject to self-selection biases that impact consumer purchase behavior, online ratings' time series, and consumer surplus. This occurs if early buyers hold different preferences than do later consumers about the quality of a given product. Readers of early product reviews may not successfully correct for these preference differences when interpreting ratings and making purchases. In this study, we develop a model that examines how idiosyncratic preferences of ear...
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作者：Cenfetelli, Ronald T.; Benbasat, Izak; Al-Natour, Sameh
作者单位：University of British Columbia
摘要：With the continued growth of business-to-consumer (B2C) e-business, online vendors are providing an increasing array of services that support and enhance their core products or services. For example, Amazon.com does not just sell books; it also enhances that core product with automated product recommendations, wish list tracking, order status updates, customer reviews, and many other valuable supporting services. These supporting services are made possible exclusively through the design and de...
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作者：Feller, Joseph; Finnegan, Patrick; Fitzgerald, Brian; Hayes, Jeremy
作者单位：University College Cork; University of Limerick
摘要：Peer production phenomena such as open source software (OSS) have been posited as a viable alternative to traditional production models. However, community-based development often falls short of creating software products in the sense that consumers understand. Our research identifies an emerging business network archetype in the OSS sector, the open source service network (OSSN), which seeks to address the productization challenge. To do so, OSSNs must overcome the problems associated with ex...
