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Design of Robust Business-to-Business Electronic Marketplaces with Guaranteed Privacy

Kalvenes, Joakim; Basu, Amit - In: Management Science 52 (2006) 11, pp. 1721-1736

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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The Impact of Information Technology on Academic Scientists' Productivity and Collaboration Patterns

Ding, Waverly W.; Levin, Sharon G.; Stephan, Paula E.; … - In: Management Science 56 (2010) 9, pp. 1439-1461

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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Mechanism Design for "Free" but "No Free Disposal" Services: The Economics of Personalization Under Privacy Concerns

Chellappa, Ramnath K.; Shivendu, Shivendu - In: Management Science 56 (2010) 10, pp. 1766-1780

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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Consumer Privacy and Marketing Avoidance: A Static Model

Hann, Il-Horn; Hui, Kai-Lung; Lee, Sang-Yong T.; Png, … - In: Management Science 54 (2008) 6, pp. 1094-1103

. Furthermore, concealment by low-benefit consumers increases direct privacy harm, and consumer welfare is higher with deflection …

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Privacy Regulation and Online Advertising

Goldfarb, Avi; Tucker, Catherine E. - In: Management Science 57 (2011) 1, pp. 57-71

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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Data Shuffling--A New Masking Approach for Numerical Data

Muralidhar, Krishnamurty; Sarathy, Rathindra - In: Management Science 52 (2006) 5, pp. 658-670

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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Consistency Judgments, Embeddedness, and Relationship Outcomes in Interorganizational Networks

Vinhas, Alberto Sa; Heide, Jan B.; Jap, Sandy D. - In: Management Science 58 (2012) 5, pp. 996-1011

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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On Evaluation Costs in Strategic Factor Markets: The Implications for Competition and Organizational Design

Ross, David Gaddis - In: Management Science 58 (2012) 4, pp. 791-804

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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Sequential Testing in Product Development

Thomke, Stefan; Bell, David E. - In: Management Science 47 (2001) 2, pp. 308-323

A fundamental problem in managing product development is the optimal timing, frequency, and fidelity of sequential testing activities that are carried out to evaluate novel product concepts and designs. In this paper, we develop a mathematical model that treats testing as an activity that...

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Note---Multi-Activity Facility Design and Location Problems

Akinc, Umit - In: Management Science 31 (1985) 3, pp. 275-283

This paper considers the problem of optimally locating multi-activity facilities whose activity compositions are also to be determined. It is assumed that there are fixed costs associated both with establishing facilities and with including specific activities at the locations. This problem is...

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