We consider advertising problems under an IT capacity constraint encountered by electronic retailers in a duopolistic setting. While there is a considerable amount of literature on advertising games between firms, introducing an IT capacity constraint fundamentally changes this problem. In the...

The sharing economy has developed rapidly in recent years in the forms of business-to-customer (B2C) and customer-to-customer (C2C), and has exerted a profound impact on incumbent firms that adopt the traditional sales model. Though prior literature has studied either the effect of B2C sharing...

Selling conspicuous products online is challenging for both brands (brands) and third- party e-commerce platforms (platforms). For brands, the trade-off between offering online discount and maintaining high-end brand image gives no easy answer, which leads to wide application of Minimum...

Opinion spammers exploit consumer trust by posting false or deceptive reviews that may have a negative impact on both consumers and businesses. These dishonest posts are difficult to detect because of complex interactions between several user characteristics such as review velocity, volume, and...