Many traditional retailers and e-tailers like Walmart and Amazon have been implementing omnichannel strategies, such as buy-online pickup-at-store (BOPS), buy-online ship-to-store (BOSS), and buy-online ship-from-store (BOFS). We build a stylized model to investigate the impacts of these...

There are numerous evidence showing that consumers usually experience emotional dissonance (e.g. purchase regret) and anticipate it in consideration set formation process. Our paper investigates how anticipated regret affects consumers' consideration set formation and the relevant implications...

Problem Definition: Many digital platforms provide a search environment for consumers to evaluate sellers' products. We investigate a strategic platform's preference in search pattern (parallel pattern or sequential pattern) to keep in check consumers' search behavior and sellers' price and...

In this paper, we study how funds regulation influences a venture’s token issuing strategy, cash diversion behavior and signaling effectiveness, when he has private knowledge on product quality (i.e., high or low). We first analyze this problem under complete information, which extends Gan et...

Topic modeling methods such as Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) are powerful tools for analyzing massive amounts of textual data. They have been extensively used in information systems and management research to identify latent topics for data exploration and as a feature-engineering mechanism...