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A new estimation technique of sovereign default risk
(Elsevier, 2016-12-27)Using the fixed-point theorem, sovereign default models are solved by numerical value function iteration and calibration methods, which due to their computational constraints, greatly limits the models' quantitative ... -
No comment?! The drivers of reactions to online posts in professional groups
(Elsevier, 2016-08)Social media has moved beyond personal friendships to professional interactions in high-knowledge industries. In particular, online discussion forums are sponsored by firms aiming to position themselves as thought-leaders, ... -
Noninfluentials and information dissemination in the microblogging community
(Springer Nature, 2017)Firms are increasingly focusing on understanding and managing their social media strategies in order to create discussions and optimize the spread of news in their communities. Most prior studies on information dissemination ... -
On member‐driven, efficient and fair timeshare exchanges
(Wiley, 2019-01)Vacation Timeshare is a form of ownership or "right to use" of a resort property for a specific time period (typically a week) each year. Timeshare exchange refers to the non-monetary trading of timeshare weeks among owners, ... -
Online intermediary as a channel for selling quality-differentiated services
(Wiley, 2015-02)When deciding whether to utilize an online intermediary in addition to their own distribution channels, quality differentiated service providers face the trade-off between the benefit of extended reach and the threat of ... -
Online social capital : understanding e-impulse buying in practice
(Elsevier, 2009-07)Socially constructed marketing imageries (e.g. e-atmospherics) help consumers while making choices and decisions. Still, human and retailing technology interactions are rarely evaluated from a social practice perspective. ... -
Optimal ambulance location with random delays and travel times
(Springer Science+Business Media, 2008-09)We describe an ambulance location optimization model that minimizes the number of ambulances needed tonprovide a specified service level. The model measures service level as the fraction of calls reached within a given ... -
Optimistic entrepreneurs and new product introductions in high technology industries
(Academy of Management, 2018)This study examines how the relationship between past performance and new product introductions is influenced by entrepreneurial optimism. Based on the behavioral theory of the firm, we test how past performance suggest ... -
Optimized calibration of currency market strategies
(2010)We propose a new financial indicator and risk metric embedded in a currency trading model to assist investors in currency markets. Since our model is highly nonlinear, we utilize global optimization technology to maximize ... -
Optimizing offer sets based on user profiles
(Social Science Research Network, 2009)Personalization and recommendation systems are being increasingly utilized by ecommerce firms to provide personalized product offerings to visitors at the firms’ web sites. These systems often recommend, at each interaction, ... -
Outpatient appointment scheduling in presence of seasonal walk-ins
(Springer Nature, 2014-04)This study investigates appointment systems (AS), as combinations of access rules and appointment-scheduling rules, explicitly designed for dealing with walk-in seasonality. In terms of 'access rules', strategies are tested ... -
Passive and active opportunism in interorganizational exchange
(American Marketing Association, 2013-11)This article examines how firms in interorganizational relationships respond differently to active and passive opportunism and observes how these opportunism forms erode satisfaction with the performance of these relationships. ... -
Paths to and off purchase: quantifying the impact of traditional marketing and online consumer activity
(Springer International Publishing, 2016-07)This study investigates the effects of consumer activity in online media (paid, owned, and earned) on sales and their interdependencies with the traditional marketing mix elements of price, advertising and distribution. ... -
Performance of inflation targeting in retrospect
(Springer International Publishing, 2016)Both inflation and inflation expectations declined considerably in the inflation targeting countries during the past two decades. The questions of whether this decline has actually been an outcome of inflation targeting ... -
Peripheral developer participation in open source projects: An empirical analysis
(ACM, 2016-01)The success of the Open Source model of software development depends on the voluntary participation of external developers (the peripheral developers), a group that can have distinct motivations from that of project founders ... -
A picture's worth a thousand numbers
(Harvard Business Publishing, 2013-06)The article examines research on the subject of humans' difficulty in understanding probability and the value of graphic representations in improving that understanding. Topics include research by "Harvard Business Review" ... -
Platform control during battles for market dominance: The case of Apple versus IBM in the early personal computer industry
(Elsevier, 2016)We conduct a case study of the battle for market dominance between the industry platforms led by Apple and by IBM in the early personal computer industry (1977–1986). Platform leaders such as Apple or IBM need to consider ... -
Playing with food: how touch facilitates a child’s intake of unfamiliar foods
(Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, 2017)Among the different methods to overcome picky eating and food neophobia (the fear of eating new or unfamiliar foods) in children, few have explored sensory engagement, more specifically haptic stimulation. There is little ... -
Poverty and intersectionality: a multidimensional look into the lives of the impoverished
(Sage, 2014-06)Subsistence consumers are disadvantaged and marginalized on many levels, including financial deprivation, poor health, lack of access to resources, and social stigmatization. The disadvantages experienced by subsistence ... -
Poverty in consumer culture: towards a transformative social representation
(2014-12)In this article, we consider the representations of poverty within consumer culture. We focus on four main themes – social exclusion, vulnerability, pleasure and contentment – that capture some of the associations that ...
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