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作者：Huang, Ni; Burtch, Gordon; Hong, Yili; Pavlou, Paul A.
作者单位：Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe; University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities; University of Houston System; University of Houston
摘要：The gig economy has low barriers to entry, enabling flexible work arrangements and allowing workers to engage in contingent employment, whenever, and in some cases, such as online labor markets, wherever, workers desire. The growth of the gig economy has been partly attributed to technological advancements that enable flexible work environments. In this study, we consider the role of an alternative driver, economic downturns, and associated financial stressors in the offline economy, for examp...
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作者：Kokkodis, Marios; Lappas, Theodoros; Ransbotham, Sam
作者单位：Boston College; Stevens Institute of Technology
摘要：In an online community, users can interact with fellow community members by voluntarily contributing to existing discussion threads or by starting new threads. In practice, however, the vast majority of a community's users (approximate to 90%) remain inactive (lurk), simply observing contributions made by intermittent (approximate to 9%) and heavy (approximate to 1%) contributors. Our research examines increases and decreases of types of user engagement in online communities using hidden Marko...
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作者：Gopal, Anandasivam; Karmegam, Sabari Rajan; Koka, Balaji R.; Rand, William M.
作者单位：University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park; Rice University; North Carolina State University
摘要：Information technology (IT) service providers are often advised to consider moving their service offerings along the value chain as a way to enhance their competitiveness. On the basis of this advice, service providers operating successfully at the lower end of the value chain have tried to expand into higher-order consulting services, whereas those operating higher up on the value chain have sought to expand into more routinized services. In both cases, such efforts have been met with limited...
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作者：Kretschmer, Tobias; Peukert, Christian
作者单位：University of Munich; Centre for Economic Policy Research - UK; Universidade Catolica Portuguesa; Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology Domain; ETH Zurich
摘要：We study the heterogeneous effects of online video platforms on the sales volume and sales distribution of recorded music. Identification comes from two natural experiments in Germany. In 2009, virtually all music videos were blocked from YouTube as a result of a legal dispute. In 2013, the dedicated platform Vevo entered the market, making videos of a large number of artists available overnight. Our estimates suggest that restricting (enabling) access to online videos decreases (increases) re...
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作者：Ghoshal, Abhijeet; Hao, Jing; Menon, Syam; Sarkar, Sumit
作者单位：University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas
摘要：Retailers have been sharing transactional data with supply chain partners for a long time to the benefit of all involved. However, many are still reluctant to share, and there is evidence that the extent of sharing would be greater if information sensitive to retailers is concealed before data are shared. Although there has been considerable research into methods to hide sensitive information from transactional data, extant research has focused only on sensitive information at the organization...
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作者：Wang, Liuan; Yan, Lu (Lucy); Zhou, Tongxin; Guo, Xitong; Heim, Gregory R.
作者单位：Beihang University; Indiana University System; Indiana University Bloomington; IU Kelley School of Business; University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle; Harbin Institute of Technology; Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station; Mays Business School
摘要：Physicians' participation in online healthcare platforms serves to integrate online healthcare resources with the offline medical system. This integration brings opportunities for reshaping healthcare delivery systems. In the field of telemedicine, there has been an extensive discussion about physician participation, but little is known about how physicians actually participate in online healthcare platforms and offline medical systems. Understanding physicians' participation dynamics between ...
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作者：Zhou, Mi; Geng, Dan; Abhishek, Vibhanshu; Li, Beibei
作者单位：Carnegie Mellon University; Singapore Management University; University of California System; University of California Irvine
摘要：Banks today have been increasingly reducing their physical presence and redirecting customers to digital channels, and yet, the consequences of this strategy are not well studied. This paper investigates the effects of banks' branch network changes (i.e., branch openings and branch closures) on customer omnichannel banking behavior. Using approximately 0.85 million (33 months') anonymized individual-level banking transactions from a large commercial bank in the United States, this paper shows ...
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作者：Lee, Gene Moo; He, Shu; Lee, Joowon; Whinston, Andrew B.
作者单位：University of British Columbia; University of Connecticut; Hansung University; University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin
摘要：The mobile applications (apps) market is one of the most successful software markets. As the platform grows rapidly, with millions of apps and billions of users, search costs are increasing tremendously. The challenge is how app developers can target the right users with their apps and how consumers can find the apps that fit their needs. Cross-promotion, advertising a mobile app (target app) in another app (source app), is introduced as a new app-promotion framework to alleviate the issue of ...
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作者：Peng, Chih-Hung; Yin, Dezhi; Zhang, Han
作者单位：State University System of Florida; University of South Florida; University System of Georgia; Georgia Institute of Technology
摘要：Given the popularity and prevalence of medical question-and-answer (Q&A) services, it is increasingly important to understand what constitutes a helpful answer in the medical domain. Prior studies on user-generated content have examined the independent impacts of content and source characteristics on reader perception of the content's value. In the setting of medical Q&A sites, we propose a novel content-context congruence perspective with a focus on the role of congruence between an answer's ...
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作者：Belanger, France; James, Tabitha L.
作者单位：Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University
摘要：In the digital era, it is increasingly important to understand how privacy decisions are made because information is frequently perceived as a commodity that is mismanaged. The preponderance of privacy literature focuses on individual-level information privacy concern and personal self-disclosure decisions. We propose that a more versatile multilevel description is required to enable exploration of complex privacy decisions that involve co-owned (i.e., group) information in increasingly sophis...
