The existing literature and industry trends suggest that web-based channels are fast becoming an integral part of the traditionally offline retailers' overall channel strategy. This paper takes a game theoretic approach to study the impact of web-based e-commerce on the choice of distribution...

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 software industries in developing countries face enormous challenges in order to grow amid fierce competition of imports from software manufacturers in developed countries. In this paper, using China as an example, we identify the issues that must be addressed for the software industry, as...

Firms benefit from participating in a consortium in two ways: from final products and from the cooperation process. Process benefits, including interorganizational learning and social capital benefits, are critical to motivate firms to participate in a consortium. However, there is limited...

Do firms in China share rents with their workers? We address this question by examining firm-level panel data covering virtually all manufacturing firms over the period 2000-2007, representing an average of 200,000 firms and 54 million workers per year. We find robust evidence of rent sharing...

Do firms in China share rents with their workers? We address this question by examining firm-level panel data covering virtually all manufacturing firms over the period 2000-2007, representing an average of 52 million workers per year. We find evidence of rent sharing (RS), with wage-profit...

Consumers consistently resort to online Word-of-Mouth (WOM) as an effective remedy for the lack of physical trials in online shopping. Nevertheless, they are confronting relatively different levels of search costs for WOM information depending on the distribution of WOM across websites. This...