The economic perspective views tort law as a mechanism to internalize externalities borne by prohibitively high transaction costs. Tort law has been 'reformed' on two different bases of reasoning. Since the producers have a larger bargaining position to manipulate for underinvestment as measures...

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...

Digitization has dramatically transformed the landscape of content distribution. Yet, little is known about the disruption caused by digitization in one of the most important content products: books. In particular, there has been scant research on how ebooks influence the existing print channel,...

Sexual assault is one of the most repellant and costly crimes, which inflicts irrecoverable harms on victims and society. This study examines the effect of IT-enabled ride-sharing platforms on sexual assaults. Drawing upon routine activity theory from the criminology literature, we posit that...

The rapid, widespread adoption of cloud computing over the past decade has sparked debates on its environmental impacts. Given that cloud computing alters the dynamics of energy consumption between service providers and users, a complete understanding of the environmental impacts of cloud...

The success of online games such as “Second Life” and “World of Warcraft” shows the popularity of virtual worlds and reveals the economic systems embedded in them. A large number of players interact with each other in cyberspace, giving rise to an interesting phenomenon where players...

This paper suggests a computational model which investigates the sustainability of MMORPGs from the social distance perspective by considering the major differences of the virtual world in an MMORPG and the real world. The effects of social distance on the actual playtime are empirically tested....