Two commonly used pricing models in the supplier-retailer setting are the agency pricing model and the wholesale pricing model. In the agency pricing model, the supplier sets the price, whereas in the wholesale pricing model, the price is set by the retailer. In this paper, we focus on the...

In order to deliver real-time performance feedback to support rapid innovation, companies are replacing annual-review based performance management with systems that enable frequent and continuous evaluation. Mobile applications enable employees to give, seek, and receive real-time,...

Online healthcare portals have become prevalent across the world in recent years with the development of internet technology. One common form that a healthcare portal takes is the online consultation website, which provides a bridge between patients and doctors and reduces the time and cost for...

An emerging gamified business model in the online learning industry has recently caught widespread attention where users are entitled to a full refund of course fee after finishing certain tasks consecutively for the required number of days (i.e., the time window). Some examples of finishing...

Modern companies are beginning to see merit in real-time peer-based performance appraisal as its ability to capture continuous dialogue interactions and real-time feedback within the employee network becomes relevant in the context of current and innovative corporate performance management...

Firms and organizations are increasingly using real-time performance feedback mechanisms to evaluate employees, where any employee (rather than just the supervisor) can rate other employees. Hence, a need arises to better understand how network positions of employees in such a system impact...

Proprietary software firms have recently begun to emulate the open source software community in opening up some of their software. We analyze this phenomenon in the context of resource allocation between fixing defects and the development of the next version of the software — an important...