The current trend to economically exploit deepwater hydrocarbon reserves is to reducethe capital expenditure; accomplished by deploying subsea equipment. The financialbenefit afforded is offset by the risk of high operational costs associated with failure.Recognition of the life cycle cost...

The interdependency of information security risks often induces firms to invest inefficiently in IT security management. Cyberinsurance has been proposed as a promising solution to help firms optimize security spending. However, cyberinsurance is ineffective in addressing the investment...

This study examines IT firms' product innovation orientations using a unified framework that incorporates both the backward-looking perspectives and the forward-looking perspective of organizational decision making. Adopting a word-embedding technique, we analyze the text content of IT firms'...

On peer-to-peer (P2P) platforms, the participation of professional sellers often creates competitive pressure on individual amateur sellers. However, the superior knowledge and expertise that professional sellers bring to the market may also indirectly benefit individual sellers through...

This study examines how the risk-taking motives of top managers drives risk-taking in IT implementations. We use the risk incentives provided in managerial compensation to capture top managers' risk-taking motives, and develop measures of aggressive IT implementation to capture strategic...

Firms face significant risk when they adopt digital supply chain systems to transact and coordinate with their partners. Drawn upon modular systems theory, this study proposes that system modularity mitigates the risk of adopting digital supply chain systems and therefore motivates firms to...

This paper studies an outsourcing problem where two service providers (suppliers) compete for the service contract from a client. The suppliers face uncertain cost for providing the service because they do not have perfect information about the client's type. The suppliers receive differential...

Advances in information technologies enable firms to collect detailed consumer data and target individual consumers with tailored ads. Consumer data is among the most valuable assets that firms own. An interesting phenomenon is that competing firms often trade their consumer data with each...