When an innovator sources for an innovative product from a supplier who is also a competitor in the end market, the potential innovation spillover may be a serious concern. Will an innovation ever source from a competitor-supplier in the presence of innovation spillover? In this paper we attempt...

In this paper, we study how an on-demand service platform could improve its performance through managing user conduct. In such a platform, service providers may reject certain platform-proposed service requests, and their responses in turn incentivize users to adjust their conduct. We develop an...

We study information acquisition and technology adoption decisions in a partnership. Using classical information acquisition and technology adoption results for a single decision-maker (SDM policy; McCardle 1985) as a benchmark, we establish that it could be optimal for the partnership to...