Network effects and standards competition introduce significant uncertainty into consumers' new-product adoption decisions, creating a substantial challenge to the success of innovating firms. While the literature has highlighted the importance of establishing a large installed-user base (the...

While cross-border mergers and acquisitions (M&As) involving emerging markets have been increasing in recent years, a high percentage of them collapse before completion. This study investigates how the predictors of cross-border M&A completion involving emerging markets depend upon the direction...

This paper investigates a novel winner-determination mechanism: multiple-winner award rules that are widely used in e-procurement auctions and crowdsourcing sites. We focus on one unique award mechanism in e-procurement auctions, in which the auctioneer (i.e., the buyer) specifies three rules...

While extant literature of network effects suggests the importance of the competitors' support to the innovator's new technology in markets with network effects, it is largely unknown HOW the innovator competitively interacts with its supporting firms. This paper empirically examines price...