The incorporation of digital technologies into the products of diverse industries, accompaniedby a shift to von-Neumann-like platform architectures, while resulting in substantially more valuableand flexible products, also leads to increased substitutability across previously distinct markets....

Apart from reducing buyer search costs, web-based commerce has also enabled the use ofintelligent agent technologies that reduce seller search costs by targeting buyers, customizing,and pricing products in real-time. Our model of an electronic market with customizable productsanalyzes the...

How are business schools thinking about developing leaders for the emerging digital economy? To answer this question, we interviewed 45 business school deans about whether knowledge about IT in business should be a part of core MBA education, and if so, how this knowledge should be delivered. A...

On-demand computing provides a new way for companies to manage and use their ITinfrastructure. This model of corporate computing radically changes the way companies pay for theirIT infrastructure, basing it on quot;pay per usequot; rather than on the fixed infrastructure investments...

This paper presents a model of local network effects in which agents in a social network each value the adoption of a product by a heterogeneous subset of other agents in their quot;neighborhoodquot;, and have incomplete information about the structure and strength of adoption complementarities...

We study how electronic markets that facilitate broader inter-firm transactions affect the vertical scope of emerging IT-enabled extended enterprises. We do so by modeling firms in a three-tier value chain who are each connected to a common electronic market that facilitates direct business...

Online commercial interactions have increased dramatically over the last decade, leading to the emergence of networks that link the e-commerce landing pages of related products to one another. Our paper conjectures that the explicit visibility to consumers of such ldquo;product networksrdquo;...

Information technology industries are often characterized by fluid boundaries, wherein firms do not compete merely with others within their own industry, but face a competitive threat from companies in other adjacent industries. This is often driven by a change over time in the scope of...

How are business schools thinking about developing leaders for the emerging digital economy? To answer this question, we interviewed 45 business school deans about whether knowledge about IT in business should be a part of core MBA education, and if so, how this knowledge should be delivered. A...

On-demand computing provides a new way for companies to manage and use their IT infrastructure. This model of corporate computing radically changes the way companies pay for their IT infrastructure, basing it on pay per use rather than on the fixed infrastructure investments such companies are...