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Complementary Online Services in Competitive Markets: How Firms Should Adjust Their Strategies Due to Network Effects
(2011-03)
A growing number of firms are strategically utilizing IT and the Internet to provide online services to consumers who buy their products. Online services differ from traditional services, such as maintenance services, ...
Online Auctions and Multichannel Retailing
(2012-07)
The Internet enables sellers to offer products through multiple channels simultaneously. In particular, many sellers utilize online auctions in parallel to other online and offline channels. Using an analytical model and ...
The BP Oil Spill as a Cultural Anomaly? Institutional Context, Conflict and Change
(2010-10)
This paper argues that the BP Oil Spill is, potentially, a "cultural anomaly" for institutional changes in environmental management and fossil fuel production. The problem as defined by the spill’s context, the potential ...
The Role of Problem Specification in Crowdsourcing Contests for Design Problems: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis
(2018-10)
This paper studies the role of seekers' problem specification in crowdsourcing contests for design problems. Platforms hosting design contests offer detailed guidance for seekers to specify their design problems when ...
A Capabilities-Based Perspective on Target Selection in Acquisitions
(2015-03)
We develop a capabilities-based theory of acquirer target selection, arguing that acquirers will pursue both low capability targets in existing contexts to deploy existing capabilities, and high capability targets in new ...
Adaptive Parametric and Nonparametric Multi-Product Pricing Via Self-Adjusting Controls
(2014-12)
We study a multi-period network revenue management (RM) problem where a seller sells multiple products made from multiple resources with finite capacity in an environment where the demand function is unknown a priori. The ...
Unbundling of Ancillary Service: How Does Price Discrimination of Main Service Matter?
(2015-09)
We consider a setting where the firm sells a main service (e.g., air travel) and an ancillary service (e.g., baggage delivery) to two types of consumers (e.g., business travelers and leisure travelers). We study how the ...
Real and Nominal Equilibrium Yield Curves with Endogenous Inflation: A Quantitative Assessment
(2014-10)
The links between real and nominal bond risk premia and macroeconomic dynamics are explored analytically and quantitatively in a model with nominal rigidities and monetary policy. The interest-rate policy rule becomes a ...
Unit-Contingent Power Purchase Agreement and Asymmetric Information about Plant Outage
(2011-10)
This paper analyzes a unit-contingent power purchase agreement between an electricity distributor and a power plant. Under such a contract the distributor pays the plant a fixed price if the plant is operational and nothing ...
Being Entrepreneurial in Your Storytelling: An Institutional Tale
(2013-11)
Stories help us make sense of the world around us and our role in it, including defining ‘success’. Stories reflect society and culture at large, but are also very context-specific; they involve particular individuals and ...