Firms use formal contracts as governance devices to manage their inter-organizational relationships. We examine 52 such contracts written for Information Technology (IT) services to investigate whether they possess properties as suggested by contract theory. We combine constructs from...

In this exploratory study, we seek to help explain and predict the success of mobile information systems based on a research model that joins key elements of the theory of task-technology fit and the technology acceptance model. To account for idiosyncrasies of the mobile technology artifact, as...

How do participants in free/libre open source software (henceforth FL/OSS) development in different countries differ in the preference for such public good initiatives? How do their incentives to participate in FL/OSS development differ across global boundaries? This exploratory study performs a...

The remarkable success of open source software applications, such as the Mozilla web browser and the Apache server, which have surpassed the success of most of their commercial counterparts (Mockus et al. 2002), can be attributed, to a large part, to the knowledge collaboration (Faraj et al....

Over the last two decades, grassroots altruism, enabled through online platforms such as DonorsChoose.org, has resulted in the successful funding of numerous essential public school projects across the country. While such channels become critical fundraising mechanisms, there is an unintended...

We study how digital crowdfunding platforms can help replenish the sudden economic deficiencies that accompany a global crisis. Specifically, we examine whether public schools, which suffered severe setbacks during the COVID-19 crisis, were able to generate support from online fundraising...