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作者：Feng, Yunfang; Guo, Zhiling; Chiang, Wei-Yu Kevin
作者单位：University System of Maryland; University of Maryland Baltimore County; City University of Hong Kong
摘要：Although the online business-to-consumer (B2C) channel is the primary selling channel for digital content (e.g., videos, images, and music), modern digital technology has made possible the legal dissemination of such content over the consumer-to-consumer (C2C) channel through personal computing devices, such as PCs, mobile phones, and portable media players. This paper investigates the optimal channel structure and the corresponding pricing and service strategies for digital content distributi...
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作者：Kauffman, Robert J.; Tsai, Juliana Y.
作者单位：Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe; New York University; University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities; University of Rochester
摘要：To increase their firms' competitiveness. information technology (IT) managers are adopting a strategy that many deemed risky in the past. Recent IT advances combined with certain firm and industry characteristics are prompting firms to move toward a unified procurement strategy for enterprise software solutions. Unified procurement Occurs when a firm elects to purchase all compatible products and services from a single vendor. Key benefits of unified procurement involve motivating managers to...
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作者：Cha, Hoon S.; Pingry, David E.; Thatcher, Matt E.
作者单位：University System of Maryland; Salisbury University; University of Arizona; Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University; University of Louisville
摘要：We use an economic learning model to examine how knowledge parameters characterizing a sourcing relationship between it vendor and it client interact with production costs and coordination costs to affect the business value of alternative outsourcing strategies. This Information is then used to determine a fit-in's optimal rate of information technology (IT) Outsourcing. We find that the optimal Outsourcing rate is dependent oil the ability of the Outsourcing client to acquire production Knowl...
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作者：Rai, Arun; Brown, Paul; Tang, Xinlin
作者单位：University System of Georgia; Georgia State University; University System of Georgia; Georgia State University; Clark Atlanta University; State University System of Florida; Florida State University
摘要：We investigate the assimilation of electronic procurement innovations (EPIs) and its impact on procurement productivity in buyer organizations. We identify online reverse auctions, electronic catalog management, electronic order fulfillment, and electronic payment and settlement as moderate complements for the performance of the procurement process. We develop a theoretical model that is informed by the literature on innovation assimilation and by structuration theory to explain the aggregated...
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作者：Qiu, Lingyun; Benbasat, Izak
作者单位：Peking University; University of British Columbia
摘要：In online shopping environments, the product-advising function originally performed by salespeople is being increasingly taken over by software-based product recommendation agents (PRAs). However, the literature has mostly focused on the functionality design and utilitarian value of such decision support systems, mostly ignoring the potential social influence they could exert on their users. The objective of this study is to apply a social relationship perspective to the design of interfaces f...
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作者：Robert, Lionel P., Jr.; Dennis, Alan R.; Hung, Yu-Ting Caisy
作者单位：University of Arkansas System; University of Arkansas Fayetteville; Indiana University System; IU Kelley School of Business; Indiana University Bloomington; Rochester Institute of Technology; National University of Singapore
摘要：Traditionally, trust has been seen as a result of personal knowledge of an individual's past behavior. In this view, trust develops gradually over time based oil an individuals cognitive assessment of the other person's behavior. However, high levels of trust have been observed among members of virtual teams, who often have little prior history of working together and may never meet each other in person. To integrate these two seemingly contradictory views of trust. this study manipulated team...
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作者：Xu, Heng; Teo, Hock-Hai; Tan, Bernard C. Y.; Agarwal, Ritu
作者单位：Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University; Pennsylvania State University - University Park; National University of Singapore; University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park
摘要：Location-based services (LBS) use positioning technologies to provide individual users with reachability and accessibility that would otherwise not be available in the conventional commercial realm. While LBS confer greater connectivity and personalization on consumers, they also threaten users' information privacy through granular tracking of their preferences, behaviors, and identity. To address privacy concerns in the LBS context, this study extends the privacy calculus model to explore the...
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作者：Zwass, Vladimir
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作者：Ayal, Moshe; Seidmann, Abraham
作者单位：University of Rochester
摘要：This paper identifies and measures the various business Value benefits that accrue as a result of implementing and integrating large-scale enterprise information systems. Specifically, we look at the integration of electronic medical records for all patients with the radiology information system and a picture archiving and communication system at a regional medical center. Our work is among the first to carefully study and analyze the impact of enterprise information systems at a large-scale s...
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作者：Zwass, Vladimir
