This paper investigates the nature of stock price changes in response to activity level adjustments at an individual firm level using a methodology based on the theory of quot;self-organized criticalityquot; [SOC], adapted from the physical sciences. The motivation to investigate activity level...

Innovation contest platforms are often organized around specific fields of interest and involve contests that span a variety of interdependent problem domains. While specialization in contests within a problem domain can improve a contestant's performance in a future contest in the same domain,...

When a platform crowdsources a multi-phased project as multiple contests, it posts a focal phase contest after prior phases' contests are completed. Because a prior phase's winning solution becomes an input in the focal phase contest, this multi-phased setup can be leveraged to objectively gauge...

IT-related spillovers occur via data- and information-related transmission paths, so these types of spillovers are best studied through process-level measures. The medical claims fraud detection is a prototypical data- and information-intensive process in insurance companies. This paper examines...

Interest in knowledge management for organizations stems from the recognition that knowledge is an essential resource of a firm for sustainable competitiveness ftom a resource-based view of strategy and competition. Under this lens, knowledge is treated as a unique resource of a firm that is not...

We investigate optimal pricing and capacity planning decisions for product-line settings such as introducing a new product or dropping an existing one. We consider a two-product, two-period model with stochastic demands, where price and capacity decisions are made at the outset. Investment in...