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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 ... -
Optimal peer-to-peer network for streaming multimedia broadcast
(Elsevier, 2020-11)This study identifies optimal transmission mechanisms for a streaming video service in a peer-to-peer network structure as a function of the number of active peers, a common service value, a common discount factor, and ... -
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, ... -
Order fulfillment policies for ship-from-store implementation in omni-channel retailing
(Elsevier, 2021-11-01)One of the recent trends in omni-channel retailing is ship-from-store which allows a retailer to fulfill online orders by using inventory from a nearby store. The benefits of this fulfillment model include faster delivery, ... -
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 ... -
Partnering for prosperity: Small IT vendor partnership formation and the establishment of partner pools
(Taylor & Francis, 2021-03-04)Small IT vendors increasingly establish intra-industry collaborative arrangements with other technology providers. Despite the criticality of this strategy, there is little research that provides insights into partnership ... -
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. ... -
Perceived overqualification and employee proactivity: The cross-level moderation effects of LMX and initiative climate in small firms
(Springer, 2023)Drawing on social information processing (SIP) theory, this study examined the interactive effects of perceived overqualification (POQ), leader-member exchange (LMX), and initiative climate on supervisor-rated employee ... -
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" ... -
Piecewise-tunneled captive processes and corridored random particle systems
(Springer, 2023-01)We introduce a family of processes that generalises captive diffusions, whereby the stochastic evolution that remains within a pair of time-dependent boundaries can further be piecewise-tunneled internally. The tunneling ... -
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 ... -
Political connections and informed trading: Evidence from TARP
(Wiley, 2021-09)We study insider trading behavior surrounding the largest bank bailout in history: Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP). In politically connected banks, insider buying during the pre-TARP period is associated with increases ... -
Positioning new identities for appeal: Configurations of optimal distinctiveness amid ancestral identities
(Sage, 2023-08)The theory of strategic balance argues that organizations that are neither too similar to nor too distinct from their rivals will be best positioned to meet competing demands for legitimacy and competition. This is because ...
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