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作者：Faraj, Samer; von Krogh, Georg; Monteiro, Eric; Lakhani, Karim R.
作者单位：McGill University; Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology Domain; ETH Zurich; Norwegian University of Science & Technology (NTNU); Harvard University
摘要：Online communities frequently create significant economic and relational value for community participants and beyond. It is widely accepted that the underlying source of such value is the collective flow of knowledge among community participants. We distinguish the conditions for flows of tacit and explicit knowledge in online communities and advance an unconventional theoretical conjecture: Online communities give rise to tacit knowledge flows between participants. The crucial condition for t...
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作者：Burtch, Gordon; Ghose, Anindya; Wattal, Sunil
作者单位：University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities; New York University; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Temple University
摘要：Individuals' actions in online social contexts are growing increasingly visible and traceable. Many online platforms account for this by providing users with granular control over when and how their identity or actions are made visible to peers. However, little work has sought to understand the effect that a user's decision to conceal information might have on observing peers, who are likely to refer to that information when deciding on their own actions. We leverage a unique impression-level ...
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作者：Steinbart, Paul John; Keith, Mark J.; Babb, Jeffry
作者单位：Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe; Brigham Young University; Texas A&M University System; West Texas A&M University
摘要：It is not enough to get information technology (IT) users to adopt a secure behavior. They must also continue to behave securely. Positive outcomes of secure behavior may encourage the continuance of that behavior, whereas negative outcomes may lead users to adopt less-secure behaviors. For example, in the context of authentication, login success rates may determine whether users continue to use a strong credential or switch to less secure behaviors (e.g., storing a credential or changing to a...
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作者：Chen, Ying-Ju; Huang, Ke-Wei
作者单位：Hong Kong University of Science & Technology; Hong Kong University of Science & Technology; National University of Singapore
摘要：Motivated by the pervasive discrepancy among the pricing schemes of data services, this paper investigates the selection of pricing metrics (variables) and the corresponding pricing plans. We construct a stylized model in which a monopoly data services seller faces heterogeneous consumers whose utilities depend on the usage and the connection speed. We examine three options for the seller to conduct the second-degree (indirect) price discrimination: by minutes, by gigabytes (Gigs), and by mega...
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作者：Moody, Gregory D.; Kirsch, Laurie J.; Slaughter, Sandra A.; Dunn, Brian Kimball; Weng, Qin
作者单位：Nevada System of Higher Education (NSHE); University of Nevada Las Vegas; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); University of Pittsburgh; University System of Georgia; Georgia Institute of Technology; University of Oklahoma System; University of Oklahoma - Norman
摘要：Emerging from rapid advances in digitization and technological capabilities is a new form of information systems development project: cyber projects. Cyber projects are complex, massive, and ambitious, often involving hundreds of academic, government, and industry professionals, requiring years of development, and costing millions of dollars. In our study, we examine how control is exercised in cyber projects. Based on a longitudinal study over eight years, we develop a process theory of the c...
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作者：Lindberg, Aron; Berente, Nicholas; Gaskin, James; Lyytinen, Kalle
作者单位：Stevens Institute of Technology; University System of Georgia; University of Georgia; Brigham Young University; University System of Ohio; Case Western Reserve University
摘要：To manage work interdependencies, online communities draw on a variety of arm's length coordination mechanisms offered by information technology platforms and associated practices. However, unresolved interdependencies remain that cannot be addressed by such arm's length mechanisms. These interdependencies reflect, for example, unidentified or emerging knowledge-based dependencies between the community members or unaccounted relationships between ongoing community tasks. At the same time, onli...
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作者：Demirezen, Emre M.; Kumar, Subodha; Sen, Arun
作者单位：State University of New York (SUNY) System; Binghamton University, SUNY; Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station; Mays Business School
摘要：Based on our interactions with the key personnel of three different healthcare information exchange (HIE) providers in Texas, we develop models to study the sustainability of HIEs and participation levels in these networks. We first examine how heterogeneity among healthcare practitioners (HPs) (in terms of their expected benefit from the HIE membership) affects participation of HPs in HIEs. We find that, under certain conditions, low-gain HPs choose not to join HIEs. Hence, we explore several...
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作者：Clarke, Roger; Burton-Jones, Andrew; Weber, Ron
作者单位：Queens University Belfast; University of Queensland; Monash University
摘要：A core activity in information systems development involves building a conceptual model of the domain that an information system is intended to support. Such models are created using a conceptual-modeling (CM) grammar. Just as high-quality conceptual models facilitate high-quality systems development, high-quality CM grammars facilitate high-quality CM. This paper provides a new perspective on ways to improve the quality of the semantics of CM grammars. For many years, the leading approach to ...
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作者：Arazy, Ofer; Daxenberger, Johannes; Lifshitz-Assaf, Hila; Nov, Oded; Gurevych, Iryna
作者单位：University of Haifa; Technical University of Darmstadt; New York University; New York University; New York University Tandon School of Engineering; German Institute for International Educational Research
摘要：Increasingly, new forms of organizing for knowledge production are built around self-organizing coproduction community models with ambiguous role definitions. Current theories struggle to explain how high-quality knowledge is developed in these settings and how participants self-organize in the absence of role definitions, traditional organizational controls, or formal coordination mechanisms. In this article, we engage the puzzle by investigating the temporal dynamics underlying emergent role...
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作者：Kim, Keongtae; Gopal, Anandasivam; Hoberg, Gerard
作者单位：City University of Hong Kong; University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park; University of Southern California
摘要：We study the effect of product market competition on the propensity to use corporate venture capital (CVC) as a part of an information technology (IT) firm's innovation strategy. Using novel measures of product market competition based on product descriptions from firm 10-K statements and accounting for potential endogeneity, we investigate how product market competition between 1997 and 2007 relates to the magnitude of CVC spending. We first find that firms in competitive markets make higher ...
