Most digital content distributed in information-goods platforms encounter the threat of online piracy. Strategic pricing, technology-based platform protection, and deterrent enforcement such as legal and moral measures are viewed as antidotes to piracy. We examine the effects of deterrent...

Many software firms, especially mobile app providers, offer perpetually free basic products to users, but premiums are charged for access to the additional features or functionalities. While the free offering helps capture potential customers, it might cannibalize the sales of premium goods or...

Information goods providers adopt the freemium model to increase their user base and maximize their profits. However, a serious piracy problem cannibalizes the demand for legal goods and deeply harms firms' interests. We investigate the optimal pricing of information goods under the freemium...

Mixed two-sided platforms suffer from the dilemma related to the platform’s regulation of user-generated content (UGC). Strict regulation may weaken the willingness of users to continuously generate new content, whereas loose regulation may lead to massive low-quality content shares. This...

This paper investigates the impacts of an additional online-to-store channel and spillover effect on the optimal retail channel choice of a supply chain. In the presence of spillover effect, we discuss how the chosen retail channel affects the manufacturer's profit, online retailer's profit, and...

Cloud computing services are transforming business and government at an ever-increasing rate. However, the associated security risk and low customization capability create challenges for the penetration of cloud services. In an environment where the negative network security externalities are...