Under the practice of “digital co-op”, manufacturers subsidize the online advertising expenditures of retailers that they sell their products through, even though retailers typically compete with manufacturers in the advertising market and appropriate a share of the manufacturers' channel...

Early crowdfunding platforms were based on a premise of disintermediation from professional investors, and relied on the "wisdom of the crowd" to screen high quality projects. This becomes problematic when equity is involved, as the degree of asymmetric information between entrepreneurs looking...

Channel coordination in search advertising is an important but complicated managerial decision for both manufacturers and retailers. Due to the highly concentrated market of search advertising, a manufacturer's and its retailers' ads can compete instead of complement with each other. We consider...

After offering a brief historical overview, this article presents a broad set of hypotheses in an effort to connect information to productivity. There are three contributions from this work. First, it distills observations from a diverse literature as prelude to exploring these theories...

This article sheds light on the factors that motivate online communities to collectively enact work in firm-sponsored initiatives. We term the general approach to online distributed knowledge-based work: “e-collective work”. While the literature has focused in understanding motivation in...

The Context Interchange Strategy (COIN) is an approach to solving the problem of interoperability of semantically heterogeneous data sources through context mediation. The existing implementation of COIN uses its own notation and syntax for representing ontologies. More recently, the OWL Web...

With the increasing interconnection of computer networks and sophistication of cyber attacks, it is important to understand the dynamics of such situations, especially in regards to cyber international relations. The Explorations in Cyber International Relations (ECIR) Data Dashboard Project is...