Crowd-funded markets have recently emerged as a novel source of capital for entrepreneurs. As the economic potential these is now being realized, they are beginning to go mainstream, trend reflected by explicit attention crowdfunding has received in American Jobs Act avenue growth, well recent focus that regulators such U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission placed upon it. Although formulation regulation policy surrounding crowd-funded becoming increasingly important, behavior...

In this paper, we analyze patterns of transaction between individuals using data drawn from Kiva.org, a global online crowdfunding platform that facilitates prosocial, peer-to-peer lending. Our analysis, which employs an aggregate dataset country-to-c

In this work, we investigate how the entry of ride-sharing services influences rate alcohol related motor vehicle fatalities. While significant debate has surrounded ride-sharing, limited empirical work been devoted to uncovering societal

Online crowdfunding has received a great deal of attention as promising avenue to fostering entrepreneurship and innovation. Because online settings bring increased visibility traceability transactions, many platforms provide mechanisms that enable campaign contributor conceal his or her identity contribution amount from peers. We study the impact these information (privacy) control on crowdfunder behavior. Employing randomized experiment at one world’s largest platforms, we find evidence...

Security defects in software cost millions of dollars to firms terms downtime, disruptions, and confidentiality breaches. However, the economic implications these for vendors are not well understood. Lack legal liability presence switching costs network externalities may protect from incurring significant event a vulnerability announcement, unlike such industries as auto pharmaceuticals, which have been known suffer loss market value defect announcement. Although research economics has...

We examine the role of network externalities on use blogs in an organization. Prior research has considered social influences such as peer pressure, but there is little prior work how extent others' actual usage can influence individual's technology. also technology influenced by positive feedback from others. Finally, we look at relation between and effects moderated demographic variables age gender. The results study show that within associated with increase one's own usage. are stronger...

Crowd-funded markets have recently emerged as a novel source of capital for entrepreneurs. As the economic potential these is now being realized, they are beginning to go mainstream, trend reflected by explicit attention crowdfunding has received in American Jobs Act avenue growth, well recent focus that regulators such U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission placed upon it. Although formulation regulation policy surrounding crowd-funded becoming increasingly important, behavior...

In this work, we investigate how the entry of ride sharing service Uber influences rate alcohol related motor vehicle homicides. While significant debate has surrounded driving services such as and Lyft, limited rigorous empirical work been devoted to uncovering societal benefits (or mechanism which drives these benefits). Using a difference-in-difference approach exploit natural experiment, two into markets in California between 2009 2014, find drop homicides after introduction Uber....

In this study, we examine how consumers respond to firms' use of two types information for personalization: product preferences and name. We collect a unique data set over 10 million e-mail advertisements sent by website 600,000 customers who could buy the advertised products from online merchant. estimate two-stage hierarchical model using Bayesian analysis account observable unobservable consumer heterogeneity. Our suggests several interesting results regarding consumers' responses...

Social computing systems are increasingly a part of people's social environment. Inherent to such communities is the collection and sharing personal information, which in turn may raise concerns about privacy. In this study, we extend prior research on internet privacy address questions antecedents communities, as well impact communities. The results indicate that users' trust other community members, community's information norms have negative community-specific concerns. We also find not...

This paper examines the information security implications of hospitals participating in health exchanges (HIE). While data threats may increase when join HIEs to share across organizational boundaries, institute “secure exchange” and promote practices among participants. Due these countervailing effects, it is unclear how joining an HIE affects hospitals’ breach risk. study seeks understand from lens governance coordination. We compiled a panel dataset more than 3,000 over six years. By...

We use a game-theoretic model to examine how information personalization by firms interacts with different dimensions of product differentiation (namely, horizontal and vertical differentiation). consider the possibility that consumers attach importance various types differentiation, report equilibrium in terms "quality—fit" ratio, which measures relative strength preference for quality compared fit is function cost misfit. also market structures (whether are similar or differentiated on...

We analyze patterns of transaction between individuals using data drawn from Kiva.org, a global online crowdfunding platform that facilitates pro-social, peer-to-peer lending. Our analysis, which employs an aggregate dataset country-to-country lending volumes based on more than three million individual transactions took place 2005 and 2010, considers the dual roles geographic distance cultural differences lenders' decisions about borrowers to support. While have seen extensive study in IS...

The rise of the sharing economy has disrupted traditional industries and had many unforeseen societal impacts. This sparked policy debates on whether how should be regulated to promote healthy growth such markets. In this research, we examine impact platform self-regulations in context home-sharing market. Using changes that reduce number Airbnb listings, empirically test crime rates. Our results suggest a reduction listings resulting from leads crime. We further study these different types...

A new form of computer mediated communication that promises to revolutionize the way organizations communicate is internal corporate blogs. However, academic literature on this relatively phenomenon limited. In study, we apply traditional theories technology adoption and innovation diffusion examine role socio-demographic characteristics social networks in blog by employees a large multi-national corporation. The results indicate individual such as age are negatively correlated with...

Abstract This research examines the role of diversification on incumbent firms' response to threat new entry. When faced with threats posed by technologies, firms in information technology (IT) industry can either perform and development (R&D), or acquire entrants who are successful at innovating. We use a two-stage game-theoretic framework model relation between decision versus R&D. also collect data financial indicators for IT using Compustat database empirically test propositions from...

Researchers in the area of information security have mainly been concerned with tools, techniques and policies that firms can use to protect themselves against breaches. However, is as much about software it secure software. Software not when has defects or flaws which be exploited by hackers cause attacks such unauthorized intrusion denial service attacks. Any public announcement makes a defect termed 'vulnerability disclosure'.

Software components such as application programming interfaces (APIs) provided by external developers are vital to online digital platforms. Although APIs generally increase the variety of products according anecdote, precise relationship between categories and product is not yet known. We find that APIs, regarding their use frequency, categorized into three groups. The core a group frequently used whereas periphery sparsely APIs. In large mature platform ecosystem, an additional regular...