This study examines how the risk-taking motives of top managers drives risk-taking in IT implementations. We use the risk incentives provided in managerial compensation to capture top managers' risk-taking motives, and develop measures of aggressive IT implementation to capture strategic...

Current knowledge management (KM) technologies and strategies advocate two different approaches: knowledge codification and knowledge sharing networks. However, the extant literature has paid limited attention to the interaction between them. This research draws upon the literature on formal...

The interdependency of information security risks often induces firms to invest inefficiently in IT security management. Cyberinsurance has been proposed as a promising solution to help firms optimize security spending. However, cyberinsurance is ineffective in addressing the investment...

While past research on software platform has recognized the existence of cross-side network effects (CNEs) between the application side and the user side, little is known about the asymmetry between the CNEs of the two sides on each other. Informed by a perspective of complex adaptive systems,...

This paper studies an outsourcing problem where two service providers (suppliers) compete for the service contract from a client. The suppliers face uncertain cost for providing the service because they do not have perfect information about the client's type. The suppliers receive differential...