A crucial aspect to the functioning of the collaborative economy is the incentive structure that encourages participation. The objective of our research is to understand the impact of project reward structure (PRS), one form of incentives, on backers’ pledging decisions during projects’...

With cashless transactions gaining momentum in developing countries, understanding the impacts of payment-system development on the real economy becomes essential. In this paper, we exploit India's demonetization shock to estimate the degree of payment-system development in India and rely on a...

Streamers, as innovative web influencers and persuaders, have played a crucial role in business marketing success. Extensive research has shown that the characteristics of streamers impact consumers' purchase intentions. However, there is limited research on how the source dynamism of streamers...

We seek to develop a recommender system that takes into account supply chain constraints regarding the availability of a product while nudging the customers to purchase it. The motivation to study this problem was because a firm faced availability constraints for one of its products but the...

Leasing is one of the most important sources of external finance to corporate firms. This paper develops a dynamic model to investigate the role of uncertainty and financial constraint in understanding the leasing decisions of corporate firms. The model predicts that firms with high uncertainty...

Steam flooding is a complex process that has been considered as an effective enhanced oil recovery (EOR) technique in both heavy oil and light oil reservoirs. Many studies have been conducted on different sets of steam flooding projects using the conventional data analysis methods while the...