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作者：Gomez, Jaime; Salazar, Idana; Vargas, Pilar
作者单位：Universidad de La Rioja
摘要：Our objective in this paper is to explore the impact of information technology (IT) on the performance of open innovation models. We study the effect of IT on the production of patents and product innovations. Our analysis of a large panel of Spanish manufacturing firms confirms that the effect of the proportion of external research and development (R&D) investments on the production of patents and new products has an inverted U-shape. The results also reveal that investments in IT positively ...
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作者：Choudhary, Vidyanand; Shivendu, Shivendu
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Irvine; State University System of Florida; University of South Florida
摘要：To study the role of targeted couponing in auctions, we develop a stylized model in which bidders have heterogeneous valuations and participation costs wherein their entry probabilities are endogenous. Couponing impacts the seller's profit in two ways: (i) impact on bidders' entry probability including negative externalities for the bidder who does not receive a coupon and (ii) value extraction. We find that targeting a coupon to the low-valuation bidder can be optimal for the firm even if it ...
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作者：Dewan, Sanjeev; Ho, Yi-Jen (Ian); Ramaprasad, Jui
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Irvine; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University; Pennsylvania State University - University Park; McGill University
摘要：We study social influence in an online music community. In this community, users can listen to and favorite (or like) songs and follow the favoriting behavior of their social network friends-and the community as a whole. From an individual user's perspective, two types of information on peer consumption are salient for each song: total number of favorites by the community as a whole and favoriting by their social network friends. Correspondingly, we study two types of social influence: popular...
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作者：Qiu, Liangfei; Kumar, Subodha
作者单位：State University System of Florida; University of Florida; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Temple University
摘要：The performance of prediction markets depends crucially on the quality of user contribution. A social-media-based prediction market can utilize aspects of social effects to improve users' contribution quality. In this study, we examine the causal effect of social audience size and online endorsement on prediction market participants' prediction accuracy through a randomized field experiment. By conducting a comprehensive treatment effect analysis, we estimate both the average treatment effect ...
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作者：Sun, Sherry X.; Zhao, Jing; Sarkar, Sumit
作者单位：Seattle University; City University of Hong Kong; University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas
摘要：In the paradigm of service-centric computing, new value-added applications can be developed dynamically and flexibly by combining and integrating existing services. While software applications are traditionally specified and implemented as a set of functions uniform to all users, this new paradigm allows the same software service to be delivered with a different price, response time, availability, and other nonfunctional attributes to accommodate different modes of use. These nonfunctional att...
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作者：Wang, Jingguo; Li, Yuan; Rao, H. Raghav
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Arlington; University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Springfield; University of Texas System; University of Texas at San Antonio; University of Texas System; University of Texas at San Antonio
摘要：This study investigates users' coping responses in the process of phishing email detection. Three common responses are identified based on the coping literature: task-focused coping, emotion-focused coping (i.e., worry and self-criticism), and avoidance coping. The three responses are used to conceptualize a higher-order construct, coping adaptiveness, that resides on a continuum between maladaptive coping and adaptive coping (manifested as increased task-focused coping and decreased emotion-f...
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作者：Wang, Jing; Ipeirotis, Panagiotis G.; Provost, Foster
作者单位：Hong Kong University of Science & Technology; New York University
摘要：The emergence of online paid micro-crowdsourcing platforms, such as Amazon Mechanical Turk, allows on-demand and at-scale distribution of tasks to human workers around the world. In such settings, online workers come and complete small tasks posted by employers, working for as long or as little as they wish, a process that eliminates the overhead of hiring (and dismissal). This flexibility introduces a different set of inefficiencies: verifying the quality of every submitted piece of work is a...
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作者：Xue, Ling; Ray, Gautam; Zhao, Xia
作者单位：University System of Georgia; Georgia State University; University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities; University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Greensboro
摘要：This study examines how managerial incentives may drive firms to adopt a proactive strategic posture to implement more information technology (IT) than competitors. We consider both performance incentives that motivate managers to enhance firm returns and risk incentives that motivate managers to take risks. Our empirical analysis shows that while the proactiveness in IT strategic posture leads to both firm returns and firm risk, risk incentives rather than performance incentives essentially d...
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作者：Bichler, Martin; Hao, Zhen; Adomavicius, Gediminas
作者单位：Technical University of Munich; University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities
摘要：Bidders in larger ascending combinatorial auctions face a substantial coordination problem, which has received little attention in the literature. The coordination problem manifests itself by the fact that losing bidders need to submit nonoverlapping package bids that are high enough to outbid the standing winners. We propose an auction format, which leverages the information that the auctioneer collects throughout the auction about the preferences of individual bidders and suggests prices for...
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作者：Ransbotham, Sam; Fichman, Robert G.; Gopal, Ram; Gupta, Alok
作者单位：Boston College; University of Connecticut; University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities
摘要：While information technology benefits society in numerous ways, it unfortunately also has potential to create new vulnerabilities. This special issue intends to stimulate thought and research into understanding and mitigating these vulnerabilities. We identify four mechanisms by which ubiquitous computing makes various entities (people, devices, organizations, societies, etc.) more vulnerable, including: increased visibility, enhanced cloaking, increased interconnectedness, and decreased costs...
