While highlighting the role of social networks in crowdfunding, extant studies at the operations management-information systems interface remain silent on how social interactions mediated by the crowdfunding platform facilitate fundraising activities and platform operations. In this study, we...

The Covid-19 pandemic and other recent disruptions in the early 2020s led to sections in the business press blaming Just-in-Time (JIT) practices for operational failings. Consequently, there are calls for moving away from JIT toward holding more inventory as preparation against future...