This paper examines the mediating role of analyst recommendations in the effect of annual IT investment on annual abnormal stock returns. While the influence of IT on stock market value has been studied in prior literature, there is a need to better understand how stock market investors come to...

Social media-based expert blogs are a crucial and credible online information source for consumers, yet little is known about the role of expert blogs for general consumer brand perceptions that bestow long-term value for the firm. On the basis of a novel dataset with 7,871 brand-day...

Can location-based mobile promotion (LMP) trigger contemporaneous and delayed sales purchases? As mobile technologies can reach users anywhere and anytime, LMP becomes a promising new channel. We unravel the dynamic sales impact of LMP on the basis of a randomized field experiment with 22,000...