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作者：Vance, Anthony; Lowry, Paul Benjamin; Eggett, Denis
作者单位：Brigham Young University; City University of Hong Kong; Brigham Young University; United States Department of Energy (DOE); Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
摘要：Access policy violations by organizational insiders are a major security concern for organizations because these violations commonly result in fraud, unauthorized disclosure, theft of intellectual property, and other abuses. Given the operational demands of dynamic organizations, current approaches to curbing access policy violations are insufficient. This study presents a new approach for reducing access policy violations, introducing both the theory of accountability and the factorial survey...
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作者：Choudhary, Vidyanand; Vithayathil, Joseph
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Irvine; Washington State University
摘要：How does the adoption of cloud computing by a firm affect the organizational structure of its information technology (IT) department? To analyze this question, we consider an IT department that procures IT services from a cloud computing vendor and enhances these services for consuming units within the firm. Our model incorporates the competitive environment faced by the cloud vendor, which affects the price of the cloud vendor. We find that when the cloud vendor faces intense competition, the...
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作者：Dey, Debabrata; Lahiri, Atanu; Liu, Dengpan
作者单位：University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle; Iowa State University
摘要：The usefulness of a software product becomes obvious to consumers only after they get to experience it and, upon experiencing it, they may reach different conclusions regarding its true value. We examine the problem of designing free software trials under a general learning function. Our analyses lead to several new findings. We find that a time-locked trial is optimal only when the rate of learning is sufficiently large. It is not optimal in other situations, even when it has an overall posit...
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作者：Clemons, Eric K.; Goh, Kim Huat; Kauffman, Robert J.; Weber, Thomas A.
作者单位：University of Pennsylvania; Nanyang Technological University; Singapore Management University; Dartmouth College; Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology Domain; Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne; Boston Consulting Group (BCG)
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作者：Lee, Young-Jin; Tan, Yong
作者单位：University of Denver; University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle
摘要：Giving away trial software is a common practice for software developers to maximize the exposure of their products to potential consumers and to minimize the consumers' uncertainty about software quality. There are two types of free trials: (1) freeware, which consists of very basic features of focal software without a time lock, and (2) trialware, which has the full functionality of focal software with a time lock. In this paper, we study what factors make some free-trial software attract mor...
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作者：Tallon, Paul P.; Ramirez, Ronald V.; Short, James E.
作者单位：Loyola University Maryland; University of Colorado System; University of Colorado Denver; University of California System; University of California San Diego; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); University of London; London Business School
摘要：In recent years, chief information officers have begun to report exponential increases in the amounts of raw data captured and retained across the organization. Managing extreme amounts of data can be complex and challenging at a time when information is increasingly viewed as a strategic resource. Since the dominant focus of the information technology (IT) governance literature has been on how firms govern physical IT artifacts (hardware, software, networks), the goal of this study is to exte...
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作者：Jensen, Matthew L.; Averbeck, Joshua M.; Zhang, Zhu; Wright, Kevin B.
作者单位：University of Oklahoma System; University of Oklahoma - Norman; Western Illinois University; University of Arizona; George Mason University
摘要：Online reviews play a significant role in forming and shaping perceptions about a product. With the credibility of online reviewers a frequent question, this research investigates how potential buyers assess the credibility of anonymous reviewers. Technology separates the reviewer from the review, and potential buyers are left to rely on characteristics of the review itself to determine the credibility of the reviewer. By extending the language expectancy theory to the online setting, we devel...
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作者：Luo, Xueming; Zhang, Jie
作者单位：Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Temple University; University of Texas System; University of Texas Arlington
摘要：Consumer buzz in the form of user-generated reviews, recommendations, and blogs signals that consumer attitude and advocacy can influence firm value. Web traffic also affects brand awareness and customer acquisition, and is a predictor of the performance of a firm's stock in the market. The information systems and accounting literature have treated buzz and traffic separately in studying their relationships with firm performance. We consider the interactions between buzz and traffic as well as...
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作者：Xue, Ling; Zhang, Cheng; Ling, Hong; Zhao, Xia
作者单位：University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Greensboro; Fudan University; Fudan University
摘要：Firms face significant risk when they adopt digital supply chain systems to transact and coordinate with their partners. Drawn upon modular systems theory, this study proposes that system modularity mitigates the risk of adopting digital supply chain systems and therefore motivates firms to digitize more of their supply chain operations. The study theorizes how the risk-mitigating effect of system modularity can be enhanced by the allocation of decision rights to the IT (information technology...
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作者：Denis, Alan R.; Minas, Randall K.; Bhagwatwar, Akshay P.
作者单位：Indiana University System; IU Kelley School of Business; Indiana University Bloomington
摘要：Much of human behavior involves subconscious cognition that can be manipulated through priming-the presentation of a stimulus designed to subconsciously implant a concept in working memory that alters subsequent behavior. Priming is a well-known phenomenon for individual behavior, but we do not know whether priming can be used to influence group behavior. We developed a Web-based computer game that was designed to improve creativity through priming. Participants were exposed to a priming game ...
