Retailers often conduct non-overlapping sequential online auctions as a revenue generation and inventory clearing tool. We build a stochastic dynamic programming model for the seller's lot-size decision problem in these auctions. The model incorporates a random number of participating bidders in...

The rapid development of textual analysis techniques has paved the way for automatic sentiment analysis. Many studies have been focusing on using sentiments disclosed from social media to predict the financial market performance. However, the underlying value of the messages collected from...

Retailers often conduct non-overlapping sequential online auctions as a revenue generation and inventory clearing tool. We build a stochastic dynamic programming model for the seller’s lot-size decision problem in these auctions. The model incorporates a random number of participating bidders...

Social media has become an integral part of modern day society. With increasingly digital societies, individuals have become more familiar and comfortable in using Online Social Networks (OSNs) for just about every aspect of their lives. This higher level of comfort leads to users spilling their...

Growing popularity of OSS has attracted millions of developers to social coding platforms such as GitHub.com. However, it appears that OSS software is becoming a victim of its own success because finding the right project, among millions of projects hosted on social coding platforms, is a...

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...