Strategic sellers on some online selling platforms have been recently using a conditional-rebate strategy to manipulate product reviews under which only purchasing consumers who post positive reviews online are eligible to redeem the rebate. A key concern for the conditional rebate is that it...

Frequent new product releases pose significant challenges for firms as they manage successive generations of product diffusion. We develop an analytical model to study the effect of different purchase options by strategic consumers on a firm's profit and the firm's strategies for the timing and...

This paper suggests factoring both dynamic indifference band (DIB) and marginal decision rule into boundedly rational day-to-day traffic dynamics modeling. To this purpose, a relative indifference band based DIB is employed to capture the variation of indifference band against dynamical network...

In order to study the impact mechanism of work stress on driver stress and the mediating effect of psychological stress, a questionnaire survey consisting of three subscales was conducted. Subscale 1 was about work stress; Subscale 2 was associated with psychological stress, while Subscale 3...

The freemium pricing model has become mainstream in the software industry. A large user base can induce positive network effects while expanding security risks associated with unpatched users. This study explores a two-stage decision problem faced by software vendors that involves a freemium...

Firms in a close business partnership could choose to either outsource to the same or different Managed Security Service Providers (MSSPs) when making outsourcing decisions. Apart from security investments, compensation ratios, and network externalities, the firms in a close business partnership...

To infer product fitness information, consumers often consult digital influencers who exert effort to learn and evaluate product features and then propagate information to their followers. However, influencers' recommendations are not limited to products that exactly match their expertise, which...

We study compatibility decisions of two competing platform owners that generate profits through both hardware sales and royalties from content sales. We consider a game-theoretic model in which two platforms offer different standalone utilities to users. We find that incentives to establish...

Rapid expansion of e-commerce, along with rising domestic and cross-border payments, has fueled the demand among financial institutions for a cost-effective means to expedite clearing and settlement of low-value retail payments. These are called faster payments settlement systems. Traditionally,...

We set up a game-theoretic model to examine the oligopolistic price competition, considering two features of online search: the existence of a common search ordering and shoppers who have non-positive search cost. We find that in equilibrium firms set their prices probabilistically rather than...