I develop an empirical model of idea generation contests with heterogeneous participants and endogenous entry, fit the model to data from a platform used by major advertisers, and simulate counterfactual contest designs. The empirical model resolves ambiguous predictions yielded by contest...

As a form of crowdsourcing, idea competitions offer a mechanism to engage larger groups in innovation activities. While much of the literature on crowdsourcing focuses on idea competitions that cross a firm's boundaries to engage external partners, relatively little is known about how this...

The creation of new products or innovations is often based on enabling technologies such as standardized development tools. Firms often have a choice whether to use these tools, or to create the functionality themselves. In this paper, we study how the use of standardized tools is related to the...

This paper reports on the findings of interviews conducted with Hungarian firms on their overall business and innovation strategies and innovation activities to pursue three interconnected aims: a) better understand firm behaviour by analysing qualitative features of innovation processes...

This article is concerned with the impact of corporate digitalization on the corporate sustainability performance and with barriers and supportive institutional frameworks for corporate digital technology adaptation. Collected from big data sets such as the Digital Economy and Society Index...

This research study investigates the challenges and strategies involved in integrating e-commerce and business model innovation within AI-driven enterprises, with a specific focus on the case of HIMS, a men's health and wellness e-commerce company. The aim of this study is to provide valuable...

Deadlines are common in product development and are often felt to be too harsh - many development efforts are still worth continuing at the time of mandated termination. We examine the value of deadlines from the agency-theoretic perspective. We consider a firm that pays an agent to lead product...

The emergence of new technologies and the expansion of digitalisation have created an opportunity for e-commerce to develop. A supplier and a buyer of goods and services meet in the e-environment and solve their problem without direct contact, which is mutually beneficial. Accordingly, when it...

The provider-client relationship is at once the main locus and the fundamental source of innovation through the interactive exchange of information and knowledge occurring during service production. However, one relevant research gap concerns the influence of relationships with clients on...