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information for competitive advantage. In this paper, we propose a marketplace design that shifts the locus of control over trader … privacy from the marketplace operator to each individual trader. We show how online transactions between trading partners can … be conducted in total privacy, so that not even the marketplace owner/operator can exploit transaction information for …
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This study investigates the impact of information technology (IT) on productivity and collaboration patterns in academe. Our data combine information on the diffusion of two noteworthy innovations in IT--BITNET and the Domain Name System (DNS)--with career-history data on research-active life...
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This study discusses a new procedure for masking confidential numerical data--a procedure called data shuffling--in which the values of the confidential variables are "shuffled" among observations. The shuffled data provides a high level of data utility and minimizes the risk of disclosure. From...
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Advertisers use online customer data to target their marketing appeals. This has heightened consumers' privacy concerns …, leading governments to pass laws designed to protect consumer privacy by restricting the use of data and by restricting online …,596 online display (banner) advertising campaigns to explore how privacy regulation in the European Union (EU) has influenced …
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consumers do not always prefer more services to less because of the privacy concerns. These concerns arise from the revelation … consumers have heterogeneous concerns about privacy. In successive generalizations, we allow the vendor to offer a fixed level … (between certain thresholds) offers a bunched contract, wherein consumers with low privacy concerns receive a variable services …
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. Furthermore, concealment by low-benefit consumers increases direct privacy harm, and consumer welfare is higher with deflection …
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Past research has shown how outcomes in interorganizational relationships are influenced by the characteristics of the individual relationship in question. Focusing on relationships between suppliers and their organizational buyers, we augment this perspective by positing that relationship...
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This paper uses a formal model to study how evaluation costs affect competition for resources in strategic factor markets. It finds that relative scarcity may not always benefit resource sellers. Rather, when competition among resource investors passes a certain threshold intensity,...
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What is the best way to design tournaments for status, in which individuals labor primarily for the esteem of their …
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This paper reports data from a study that seeks to characterize the differences in design structure between complex … software products. We use design structure matrices (DSMs) to map dependencies between the elements of a design and define … purposeful managerial actions can have a significant impact in adapting a design's structure. This latter result is important …
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