Recently, a growing number of online retailers have started meshing their pricing strategies with consumers' social networks. Specifically, they have started allowing consumers to invite peers from social media to request a discount for their purchases. We call this pricing strategy social...

We study information production and diffusion resulting from dynamic interactions between different types of informed investors in financial markets. Using a theoretical framework that exploits the setting of the Q&A section of earnings conference calls, we predict that information production...

The advent of digital goods has made a significant impact on the current traditional (physical) goods markets for items such as movies, music, video games, and books. Firms that manage both traditional and digital goods distribution channels are facing many emerging operational challenges. One...

With the rise of the Internet economy, an increasing number of firms are offering their core products through online platforms, but retail add-ons directly to consumers. Meanwhile, many online platforms have also started adopting the agency (model) contract, where the upstream firms decide the...

In today's increasingly interconnected world, co-opetition has emerged as a new business practice among the technology firms. The boundaries between cooperation and competition have been becoming vague, where rivals engage in collaborative activities. One of the most critical challenges facing...

In today’s highly competitive business environment, a growing number of platforms are opening their technologies. This leads us to wonder whether sharing one’s proprietary technology is altruism or a shrewd business move. In this paper, we study the incentive of why firms share their...