This paper presents and analyzes comparative data on 2,343 foreign-owned organizations operating in the transitional economies of China, Viet Nam and the countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). Specifically, it compares the extent, sectoral distribution, characteristics and performance of...

On reward-based crowdfunding platforms, uncertainty in investment outcome severely hinders transactions between online backers and fundraisers due to backers' inaccessibility to actual products. The industry is dedicated to alleviating these dilemmas through campaign design and platform function...

Product returns are typically seen as a headache for e-marketplace sellers because of the associated high costs. The extant literature on product returns suggests that both sellers’ usage of web technologies and consumers’ page views impact product returns. Investigating these two factors in...

This paper has two major objectives. The first objective intends to answer the following question which is of significant interest to information system (IS) researchers and practitioners: How does user satisfaction (satisfaction) respond to changes in system use and system attributes? The...

In this study we examine the contingent effects of two cultural values, indulgence and individualism, on the relationships between perceived benefits (utilitarian value, hedonic value, and relational capital), affective commitment, and continuance intention in social virtual worlds. We test our...

Outward FDI does not necessarily reduce domestic employment – it often boosts it. Evidence from Japanese MNEs show that they increase domestic employment in Japan when they conduct market-seeking, strategic asset-seeking, or efficiency-seeking FDI to expand domestic operations into foreign...