Bringing innovations to market is critical to industrial progress and economic growth. We explore the potential for IT to enable innovations, and thus improve productivity. We hypothesize that a knowledge stock of process-oriented R&D increases total factor productivity growth by leveraging...

In many industries agent-intermediated markets are inefficient because information about latent demand and supply never gets to market. We demonstrate how information technology in the form of an agent-intermediated electronic market (EM) alleviates this problem by enhancing the...

In this research we study how existing market coverage affects the outcome of the Internet channel entry game between an existing retailer and a new entrant. A market is not covered when some consumers with low reservation prices are priced out by existing retailers and do not purchase. In a...

We propose a general and precise model of a network alliance that addresses both the role of membership and the role of incentives in the coordination of actions and interactions of network alliance members. Using examples in such disparate industries as professional engineering, accounting...

Drawing on the resource-based view, we propose a configurational perspective of how IT assets and capabilities affect firm performance. Our premise is that IT assets and IT managerial capabilities are components in organizational design, and, as such, their impact can only be understood by...

Although consumer profiling advocates tout benefits from personalization, consumer advocacy groups oppose profiling in online markets because of concerns about privacy and price discrimination. Policies such as “opt-out” or “opt-in” that provide consumers the option to voluntarily...