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作者：Breznitz, Dan; Forman, Chris; Wen, Wen
作者单位：University of Toronto; Cornell University; University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin
摘要：The diffusion of new information technology (IT) requires the development of an ecosystem of hardware and software producers, users, and other firms. It is widely believed that venture capitalists (VCs) can play a role in the development of such ecosystems. However, empirical research to elaborate on these points is lacking. Focusing on the recent rapid rise of one platform, cloud computing, we assemble a unique dataset to look at the period just before wide acceptance of the cloud. We find ev...
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作者：Ye, Shun; Viswanathan, Siva; Hann, Il-Horn
作者单位：George Mason University; University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park
摘要：This study empirically examines online peer-to-peer (P2P) barter markets, in which individuals trade goods or services without the use of money. Using detailed transaction data and weblog data from a leading online P2P barter market for books, we examine the role of reciprocal relationships in the initiation and fulfillment of exchanges. We find that avid users with a higher demand for books are more likely to establish and utilize reciprocal relationships compared to non-avid users. In examin...
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作者：Benitez, Jose; Ray, Gautam; Henseler, Jorg
作者单位：Universite de Rennes; University of Granada; University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities; University of Twente; Universidade Nova de Lisboa
摘要：Although mergers and acquisitions (M&A) are a common strategy to reduce costs and pursue growth, the variance in returns from M&A is very high. This research examines how information technology (IT) infrastructure flexibility affects M&A. We use a combination of secondary as well as matched-pair survey data from 100 mid-size firms in Spain to investigate this relationship. The empirical analysis suggests that IT infrastructure flexibility affects M&A through two key pathways: (1) a flexible IT...
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作者：Guo, Zhiling; Ma, Dan
作者单位：Singapore Management University
摘要：Software as a service (SaaS) has grown to be a significant segment of many software product markets. SaaS vendors, which charge customers based on use and continuously improve the quality of their products, have put competitive pressure on traditional perpetual software vendors, which charge a licensing fee and periodically upgrade the quality of their software. We develop an analytical model to study the competitive pricing strategies of an incumbent perpetual software vendor in the presence ...
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作者：Bhattacharya, Shantanu; Gupta, Alok; Hasija, Sameer
作者单位：Singapore Management University; University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities; INSEAD Business School
摘要：This paper compares two modes for outsourcing the development of information services projects: single-sourcing (where one vendor handles all outsourced activities) and multisourcing (where multiple vendors handle those activities). We assess the relative efficacy of these two outsourcing modes by identifying the effects of three factors: task modularity, the extent of alignment between a (verifiable) performance metric and project revenue, and the extent to which project revenue is itself ver...
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作者：Aguirre-Urreta, Miguel I.; Ronkko, Mikko
作者单位：State University System of Florida; Florida International University; University of Jyvaskyla; Aalto University
摘要：Partial least squares (PLS) is one of the most popular statistical techniques in use in the Information Systems field. When applied to data originating from a common factor model, as is often the case in the discipline, PLS will produce biased estimates. A recent development, consistent PLS (PLSc), has been introduced to correct for this bias. In addition, the common practice in PLS of comparing the ratio of an estimate to its standard error to a t distribution for the purposes of statistical ...
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作者：Bapna, Ravi; Ramaprasad, Jui; Umyarov, Akhmed
作者单位：University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities; McGill University
摘要：Making sustainable profits from a baseline zero price and motivating free consumers to convert to premium subscribers is a continuing challenge for all freemium communities. Prior research has causally established that social engagement (Oestreicher-Singer and Zalmanson 2013) and peer influence (Bapna and Umyarov 2015) are two important drivers of users converting to premium subscribers in such communities. In this paper, we flip the perspective of prior research and ask whether the decision t...
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作者：Cunha, Joao; Carugati, Andrea
作者单位：IESEG School of Management; Aarhus University
摘要：The quality of an organization's decisions depends on the quality of the data in its information systems. When technology records employees' work automatically, information quality is ensured by algorithms that produce electronic representations of work. What happens when employees report their own work? We show that the quality of this self-reported information depends on how managers direct their employees to report their work in their organization's information systems. We refer to construc...
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作者：Gong, Jing; Abhishek, Vibhanshu; Li, Beibei
作者单位：Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Temple University; University of California System; University of California Irvine; Carnegie Mellon University
摘要：In this paper, we explore how keyword ambiguity can affect search advertising performance. Consumers arrive at search engines with diverse interests, which are often unobserved and nontrivial to predict. The search interests of different consumers may vary even when they are searching using the same keyword. In our study, we propose an automatic way of examining keyword ambiguity based on probabilistic topic models from machine learning and computational linguistics. We examine the effect of k...
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作者：Vithayathil, Joseph; Choudhary, Vidyanand
作者单位：Southern Illinois University System; Southern Illinois University Edwardsville; University of California System; University of California Irvine
摘要：We study the potential for digital, online information and electronic voting to improve shareholder surplus by facilitating a new governance structure, owner-governance, which shifts control of the takeover decision from the board to shareholders. We compare analytical models of owner-governance to the current practice of delegated-governance in the context of increasing availability of online information, which increases public informedness. Our analysis shows that shareholders of the target ...
