The emergence of Google's Speed Update incentivizes firms to improve website performance to rank higher on Google search. We study two modes of web traffic competition: Website Speed (response-based) and Website Capacity (capacity-based). The response-based decision process starts with choosing...

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...