Although there are both process-related and human-related grounds for systematic performance variation across days of the week, this phenomenon has not been studied in operations management. Using actual transaction records from the U.S. Government's General Services Administration, we assess...

Viewing investment projects in new technologies as real options, this paper studies the effects of endogenous competition and asymmetric information on the strategic exercise of real options. We first develop a multi-period, game-theoretic model and show how competition leads to early exercise...

The criteria for evaluating a crowdfunding project vary from person to person. Some investors are concerned with the entrepreneurs' profiles, while others are more interested in the creativity behind the project. Most investors evaluate a project by referring to founder-generated content....