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INFORMS Journal Highlights from February 2017
AUTHOR SPOTLIGHT
IOANNIS (YANNIS) BELLOS
“Auto manufacturers increasingly view themselves as providers of mobility solutions, and to that end they have been adopting new business models such as that of car sharing. The choice of business model also affects more traditional considerations such as product design and compliance with environmental regulation. The good news is we find that car sharing can enable manufacturers to provide vehicles of higher efficiency. Current regulation, however, may need to be better aligned to support the adoption of car sharing by manufacturers (e.g., via the use of incentive multipliers in CAFE standards to manufacturers providing car sharing).”More by this Author
Is IT That You Can’t Learn, Or You Won’t Learn? Technology-Enabled Monitoring and Heterogeneity in Sales Performance
Service Design for a Holistic Customer Experience: A Process Framework
The Car Sharing Economy: Interaction of Business Model Choice and Product Line Design
The Potential of Servicizing as a Green Business Model
Runner Up — INFORMS Energy, Natural Resources, and the Environment Section Young Researcher Prize for "The Potential of Servicizing as a Green Business Model"; Honorable Mention — INFORMS Service Science Section Best Student Paper Competition for "The Design Challenges of Experiential Services"; Member — Manufacturing & Service Operations Management Society; Innovation Management & Entrepreneurship Section; Service Science Section; Energy, Natural Resources, and the Environment Section; Junior Faculty Interest Group
K. Sudhir
Marketing Science
“As user-generated reviews gain in importance as a lubricant for e-commerce, sites such as Yelp, Amazon, and Travelocity are increasingly considering ways to get people to post reviews. This paper cautions that monetary incentives for posting online reviews may backfire. “Loners” with small friendship networks, who initially posted little, increased their posts in response to the monetary incentives. But those with larger friendship networks, who otherwise contributed more reviews, reduce their posts significantly in response to monetary incentives. The concern about being perceived as a “shill” worries exactly those who have greater social and reputational capital at stake. Beware of bribing users for reviews!”
Motivation of User-Generated Content: Social Connectedness Moderates the Effects of Monetary Rewards
Yacheng Sun, Xiaojing Dong, Shelby McIntyre
Daniel A. Levinthal
Strategy Science
“Practitioners and scholars have long suggested that a significant determinant of an organization’s future performance is its ability to learn from prior failures. In the “Empirics of Learning from Failure,” Victor Bennett and Jason Snyder revisit this important relationship and show that the empirical approaches used in the past will tend to find a positive learning effect, even when no such effect is present. Bennett and Snyder offer an alternative specification that does not suffer from this bias and then apply their novel specification to data on the relationship between failure and performance in the context of liver transplants.”
The Empirics of Learning from Failure
Victor Bennett, Jason Snyder
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JOURNAL SPOTLIGHT
Information Systems Research
Editor-in-Chief: Alok Gupta
Impact Factor: 3.047
5-year Impact Factor: 4.014
Impact Factor: 3.047
5-year Impact Factor: 4.014
“On the intellectual side, the inherent nature of the Information Systems discipline constantly keeps throwing new challenges and providing new opportunities for research. Essentially, the interdisciplinary nature of IS research and turbo-charged rate of change in technology, its informational needs, and production are fueling new research challenges and opportunities at an unprecedented rate. These technological changes get adopted in our society and business faster than we understand how they are affecting us, our work, and our society. Clearly, one of the big areas of interest and research challenges is linked to Big Data and Analytics. Having been a special issue editor for the Business Analytics special issue of Management Science (June 2014), I can vouch for the fact that it indeed is a big challenge since most of the papers submitted used traditional data analysis techniques to answer traditional questions using a lot of data. When I go to conferences I see researchers in Information Systems presenting wonderful research platforms and innovative techniques and approaches that leverage the power of big data, and I am encouraged that a talented set of young researchers are doing very interesting work that will be coming through Information Systems Research. It will be an intellectually challenging task for us to evaluate these papers. While IS research has traditionally focused on micro issues within organizations with limited work and understanding of industry-level work, the availability of rich multi-echelon data streams at multiple layers of problem structure will provide opportunity to address problems of higher complexity and wickedness. From my perspective, given the strength and talent of the research community, the IS discipline and Information Systems Research can take a lead in such research, and I am excited to have an opportunity to shepherd the journal through this period in IS research.”