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作者：Peng, Jing; Liang, Chen
作者单位：University of Connecticut
摘要：E-commerce platforms often use collaborative filtering (CF) algorithms to recommend products to consumers. What recommendations consumers receive and how they respond to the recommendations largely depend on the design of CF algorithms. However, the extant empirical research on recommender systems has primarily focused on how the presence of recommendations affects product demand, without considering the underlying algorithm design. Leveraging a field experiment on a major e-commerce platform,...
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作者：He, Liuyi; Luo, Jifeng; Tang, Yisong; Wu, Zhiyan; Zhang, Han
作者单位：Shanghai Jiao Tong University; Shanghai University of International Business & Economics; University System of Georgia; Georgia Institute of Technology
摘要：While monetary rewards have been widely used by online platforms to motivate user-generated content (UGC) contributions, users may not always demonstrate the expected behaviors. Unintended consequences of reward policies, exemplified by unchanged or reduced UGC contributions, may occur. Through two natural experiments, this study investigates the implications of providing users with an incentive structure that rewards users' continued contribution according to the volume of UGC. Using a unique...
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作者：Bapna, Sofia; Ganco, Martin
作者单位：University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities; University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Madison
摘要：We examine whether equity crowdfunding democratizes access to funding for nontraditional user entrepreneurs. User entrepreneurs start by creating a product to serve their own unmet needs with no expectations of monetary profit, then later decide to commercialize the product through entrepreneurship. In contrast, traditional (producer) entrepreneurs take a more profit-driven path to entrepreneurship and start by identifying an opportunity that has commercial potential. Through a randomized fiel...
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作者：Kokkodis, Marios; Adamopoulos, Panagiotis; Ransbotham, Sam
作者单位：Emory University; Boston College
摘要：Digital markets have proliferated in recent years, overcoming many market inefficiencies by facilitating direct interactions between consumers and creators. Thanks to this disintermediation, consumers now have access to a vast number of alternatives, while creators can efficiently reach huge markets. However, the success of digital markets has created a concomitant challenge for creators: differentiation. In crowded markets, agencies (e.g., publishing companies in books, freelance agencies in ...
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作者：Lehrer, Christiane; Constantiou, Ioanna; Matt, Christian; Hess, Thomas
作者单位：Copenhagen Business School; Copenhagen Business School; University of Bern; University of Munich
摘要：User engagement, a key factor in the success of social media platforms, has long been based on permanent content. A recent paradigm shift in platform design has led large social media providers to implement ephemerality features that by default make shared content disappear after a certain amount of time. However, very little is known about how ephemerality features affect user engagement and behavior in social media. Drawing upon the technology affordance perspective, we conducted a qualitati...
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作者：Shi, Runyu; Aaltonen, Aleksi; Henfridsson, Ola; Gopal, Ram D.
作者单位：University of Sussex; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Temple University; University of Miami; University of Warwick
摘要：Research on platform owners' entry into complementary markets points in divergent directions. One strand of the literature reports a squeeze on post-entry complementor profits due to increased competition, while another observes positive effects as increased customer attention and innovation benefit the complementary market as a whole. In this research note, we seek to transcend these conflicting views by comparing the effects of the early and late timing of platform owners' entry. We apply a ...
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作者：Ryu, Sunghan; Kim, Keongtae; Hahn, Jungpil
作者单位：Shanghai Jiao Tong University; Chinese University of Hong Kong; National University of Singapore
摘要：This study adopts a signaling theory perspective to examine whether and how crowdfunding (relative to angel financing) influences subsequent venture capital (VC) investments in startups. We used a bivariate probit model with propensity score matching to address the potential endogeneity of the initial funding choice. Subsequently, we found that crowdfunded startups have a lower chance of receiving VC funding than angel-financed startups and that the effect is more negative for startups located...
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作者：Havakhor, Taha; Golmohammadi, Alireza; Sabherwal, Rajiv; Gauri, Dinesh K.
作者单位：McGill University; University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Charlotte; University of Arkansas System; University of Arkansas Fayetteville
摘要：Online equity markets have significantly changed the dynamics of connecting angels and individual equity investors to new ventures that seek early-stage capital. However, for those early-stage investors, information pointing to the success of business-to-business (B2B) new ventures (B2BNVs) is scattered and disconnected. This paper focuses on social media narratives (SMNs) as a source of insight for such investors and proposes that predicting a B2BNV's likelihood of success requires a comparat...
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作者：Sabzehzar, Amin; Burtch, Gordon; Hong, Yili; Raghu, T. S.
作者单位：Tulane University; Boston University; University of Miami; Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe
摘要：Biases on online platforms pose a threat to social inclusion. We examine the influence of a novel source of bias in online philanthropic lending, namely that associated with religious differences. We first propose religion distance as a probabilistic measure of differences between pairs of individuals residing in different countries. We then incorporate this measure into a gravity model of trade to explain variation in countryto-country lending volumes. We further propose a set of contextual m...
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作者：Rinta-Kahila, Tapani; Penttinen, Esko; Lyytinen, Kalle
作者单位：University of Queensland; Aalto University; University System of Ohio; Case Western Reserve University
摘要：Organizations replace their legacy systems for technical, economic, and operational reasons. Replacement is a risky proposition, as high levels of technical and social inertia make these systems hard to withdraw. Failure to fully replace systems results in complex system architectures involving manifold hidden dependencies that carry technical debt. To understand how a process for replacing a complex legacy system unfolds and accumulates technical debt, we conducted an explanatory case study a...
