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作者：Sun, Haoyan; You, Weijia; Li, Junchao (Jason); Zhang, Han
作者单位：Lehigh University; Beijing Forestry University; Rutgers University System; Rutgers University Newark; Rutgers University New Brunswick; University System of Georgia; Georgia Institute of Technology; Hong Kong Baptist University
摘要：The unique dynamics of the crowdfunding process have attracted substantial scholarly attention over the past decade. In this study, we investigate how crowdfunding campaign starters' response to potential backers in the discussion board influences backer accumulation in reward-based crowdfunding platforms. We suggest that the starter response serves to reduce information asymmetry and signal the positive qualities of the campaign starter(s). Accordingly, we shed light on the threefold implicat...
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作者：Forderer, Jens; Gutt, Dominik; Greenwood, Brad N.
作者单位：University of Mannheim; Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC; Erasmus University Rotterdam; George Mason University
摘要：Competition between user-generated content platforms (e.g., Twitch, Spotify, YouTube) is characterized by fierce talent poaching of highly popular stars on the supply side. However, little is known about how the loss of a star affects content production from former cocreating peers on multisided content platforms. Whereas theory suggests that star turnovers might decrease the demand for cocreating peers or trigger them to depart the platform as well, empirical understanding is still lacking. T...
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作者：Liu, Zibo; Chen, Shi; Moinzadeh, Kamran; Tan, Yong
作者单位：Fudan University; University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle
摘要：Online sales of limited inventory such as flash sales and lightning deals have become popular among e-commerce retailers including Amazon and eBay. Motivated by empirical studies on how inventory information affects demand in flash sales, we study the retailer's best timing of disclosing inventory information to maximize the expected sales in a finite horizon. We build a model of customers' utility within a Bayesian updating framework to capture the observational learning and scarcity effects ...
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作者：Ma, Shuang; Ge, Lin; Jia, He (Michael); Wang, Yonggui
作者单位：University of International Business & Economics; Hong Kong Metropolitan University; University of Hong Kong; Zhejiang Gongshang University; Zhejiang Gongshang University
摘要：Whereas service firms have started to deploy service robots on the service front line, it remains less understood whether all types of service firms gain a similar benefit from this advance in information technologies. With one secondary data analysis of review content from a leading travel website, one field study conducted at a hotel, and three randomized controlled experiments, the current research addresses this important managerial issue. We propose that replacing human service providers ...
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作者：Ray, Tyotishka; Menon, Syam; Mookerjee, Vijay
作者单位：University System of Ohio; University of Dayton; University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas
摘要：The rapid growth of digital platforms and online commerce has generated vast amounts of proprietary data that firms increasingly seek to monetize. Sellers face two fundamental choices: whether to provide access exclusively to a single buyer or nonexclusively to multiple buyers, and whether to sell stand-alone data or offer a data product that integrates data with analytics services. Buyers, in turn, must decide how to structure negotiations-separately with the seller and the consultant, or wit...
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作者：Zhang, Hao; Guo, Zhiling; Liu, Junming; Wang, Mingzheng
作者单位：Tianjin University; University of North Texas System; University of North Texas Denton; City University of Hong Kong; Shenzhen Research Institute, City University of Hong Kong; City University of Hong Kong; Zhejiang University
摘要：This study explores consumers' footprints on a multichannel e-commerce platform to model their multichannel sequential search (MSS) behaviors. We develop a novel search model that characterizes consumers' MSS behaviors as a threefold sequential search process consisting of cross-channel, cross-product, and cross-page searches, where consumers dynamically update their cross-channel reference prices along their search journeys. The evolving cross-channel reference price effect reshapes the attra...
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作者：Morid, Mohammad Amin; Sheng, Olivia R. Liu
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作者：Liu, Yuchen; Wang, Lizheng; Tan, Yong; Li, Yongjun
作者单位：State University System of Florida; University of Florida; Chinese Academy of Sciences; University of Science & Technology of China, CAS; University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle
摘要：Online reading platforms increasingly adopt a by-chapter purchase model and embed novel in-chapter commenting functions to alleviate consumer uncertainty about the quality of digital books. This study examines how these platform designs influence consumer learning and purchasing behavior. We develop a Bayesian learning model that captures how consumers form and update beliefs about book quality using both their own consumption experience and indirect signals derived from prior readers' in-chap...
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作者：Luo, Ning; Zheng, Zhiqiang (Eric)
作者单位：Virginia Commonwealth University; University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas
摘要：The success of a blockchain venture critically hinges on the contribution of blockchain developers. Blockchain ventures are typically developed as open-source projects, where some developers contribute voluntarily, whereas others are incentivized by token rewards to participate. We examine whether such token incentives are effective in motivating developers to contribute, in a market teeming with opportunistic activities. To address this question, we leverage a unique setting where token incen...
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作者：Hardin, Andrew; Chatterjee, Sutirtha; Davison, Robert; Fuller, Mark
作者单位：Nevada System of Higher Education (NSHE); University of Nevada Las Vegas; City University of Hong Kong; University of Massachusetts System; University Massachusetts Dartmouth
摘要：Digital technologies hold immense potential for enhancing collaboration and teamwork. Collective-level efficacy, or the collective belief in the ability to collaborate effectively, is a crucial factor influencing traditional team performance that is now being explored in the context of digitally enabled virtual teams. However, despite the idiosyncratic challenges of virtual teams, researchers studying collective-level efficacy's effects tend to directly apply traditional team concepts, which d...
