With the rapid growth of business-to-business electronic commerce and the increasing need for supply chain collaboration, systems that support supply procurement are becoming ever more important. Due to the substantial costs of hardware, software and effort needed for implementation success,...

A unique data set is used to examine the determinants of membership in theYankee 24 shared Automated Teller Machine (ATM) network. Recent work suggeststhat the presence of demand side network externalities influences the decisionto join a network. A model is constructed in which characteristics...

The world economy is undergoing dramatic changes, largely driven by the new availability of fine-grained information. Innovative ways of using data—large and small—have also prompted a rethinking of the boundaries for the combination and use of knowledge. The strategic design of information...

Achieving effective business design across the Internet and the offline channel is a critical concern for a hybrid firm's choice of pricing strategy. To examine the effects of consumer channel migration - a form of one-way channel interaction from the traditional sales channel to the Internet -...