Flash sales have gained popularity among online retail platforms, including Amazon lightning deals and eBay daily deals. The extant literature has provided evidence that disclosure of inventory levels of a flash sale can affect customers' purchase behavior and thus, the total sales of the...

Rapid growth in the cloud services market provides tremendous opportunities to cloud providers who have invested heavily in computing capacities but also has led, at time, to low utilization of capacities. To alleviate this problem, some providers have launched a low-priority service with...