Seller and product authentication problems are inherent in online markets, particularly in the time-constrained setting of online auctions. While trust-building mechanisms such as seller feedback systems can mitigate these problems, they are based on past transactions and other users’...

In recent years, a growing number of B2B e-businesses are adopting inter-organizational information systems (IOS). IOS enable and facilitate sharing of IT resources and capabilities between two or more organizations. Scholars also agree that information technology (IT) recourses and capabilities...

Extant literature has focused on the complementary or substitute relationship between contractual or relational governance in information systems (IS), however, only a few studies reveal the factors and their interactions which impact the decision making on inter-organizational information...

As Social Media platforms have become increasingly popular among customers, Firms are still exploring ways to harness the potential of these platforms. The viralness of these platforms increases the reach of customer complaints and exacerbates the impact from follow-up comments by the...

This research in progress studies the role of social media as a resource for contemporary social movements in their endeavors to bring about social change. Current studies on this topic have largely regarded social media as an alternative channel for communicating situational information during...

The literature recognizes the potential of social media as an alternative channel for promoting the causes of social movements, but little is known about the factors that act on the endeavors by social movement organizations to expand their base of sup-porters in social media environments....

In recent years, the success of open source software (OSS) has attracted proprietary software firms, who now actively participate, and sponsor OSS development. Though researchers agree that for the progress of OSS projects, financial support, rewards, and incentives are critical if not...

A growing number of vendors are using a sequence of online auctions to sell large inventories of identical items. Although bidding strategies and bidder behavior in single auctions have been extensively studied, limited research exists on bidding in sequential auctions. We seek to explain how...

Retailers are increasingly exploiting sequential online auctions as an effective and low cost distribution channel for disposing large quantities of inventory. In such auction environments, bidders have the opportunity of participating in many auctions to learn and choose the bidding strategy...