5. Economics and Value of IS

An Empirical Study of the Freemium Strategy for Mobile Apps: Evidence from the Google Play Market

Charles Z. Liu, Information Systems and Cyber Security, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, United States.
Yoris A. Au, Information Systems and Cyber Security, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, United States.
Hoon Seok Choi, Information Systems and Cyber Security, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, United States.

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Crowdsourcing Contests: A Dynamic Structural Model of the Impact of Incentive Structure on Solution Quality

Yan Huang, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, United States.
Param Singh, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, United States.
Tridas Mukhopadhyay, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, United States.

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Digital Access, Political Networks and the Diffusion of Democracy

Lauren Rhue, New York University, New York, NY, United States.
Arun Sundararajan, New York University, New York, NY, United States.

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Information Exchange in Prediction Markets: How Social Networks Promote Forecast Efficiency

Liangfei Qiu, Department of Economics, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States.
Andrew Whinston, Information, Risk and Operations Management, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States.
Huaxia Rui, Simon School of Business, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, United States.

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Inter-Industry IT Spillovers After the Dot-Com Bust

Prasanna Tambe, Stern School of Business, New York University, New York, NY, United States.

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Introducing IT-enabled Business Flexibility and IT Integration in the Acquirer’s M&A Performance Equation

Jose Benitez-Amado, Operations Management and Information Systems Group, Department of Management Science, School of Economics and Business, University of Granada, Granada, Spain.
Gautam Ray, Information and Decision Sciences Department, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States.

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Measuring Product Type With Dynamics of Online Product Review Variance

Yili Hong, Management Information Systems, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, United States.
Pei-Yu Chen, Department of MIS, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, United States.
Lorin M. Hitt, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States.

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Online Search: Identifying New Investment Habitats

Alvin Leung, Information Risk and Operations Management, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States.
Ashish Agarwal, Information Risk and Operations Management, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States.
Prabhudev Konana, Information Risk and Operations Management, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States.
Alok Kumar, Finance, University of Miami, Miami, FL, United States.

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Optimal Design of Consumer Review Systems

Hong Guo, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, United States.
Yabing Jiang, Fordham University, New York City, NY, United States.

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Platform or Wholesale: Different Effects on Retailers of Online Product Reviews

Young Kwark, School of Management, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX, United States.
Jianqing Chen, School of Management, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX, United States.
Srinivasan Raghunathan, School of Management, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX, United States.

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Predicting Participation in Social Media Sites by Analyzing User Participation Patterns

Liron Sivan, Tel-Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Barak Libai, Arison School of Business, Interdisciplinary Center, Herzelia,
Gal Oestreicher-Singer, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.

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The Attention Economy: Measuring the Value of Free Digital Services on the Internet

Erik Brynjolfsson, Management Science, MIT, Cambridge, MA, United States.
JooHee Oh, Management Science, MIT, Cambridge, MA, United States.

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The Effect of Free Access on the Diffusion of Scholarly Ideas

Heekyung Hellen Kim, Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, , United States.

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The Impact of Information on Movie Sales Skewness

Anuj Kumar, ISOM Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States.
Rahul Telang, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, United States.
Michael Smith, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, United States.

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The Impact of IT-enabled Manufacturing Capabilities on Plant Profitability: New Models and Evidence

Sezgin Ayabakan, MIS, The University of Texas a Dallas, Richardson, TX, United States.
Indranil Bardhan, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX, United States.
Eric Zheng, School of Management, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX, United States.

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