2015 INFORMS Conference on Information Systems and Technology [PDF]

2015 INFORMS Conference on Information Systems and Technology Philadelphia, Oct 31 - Nov 1 Location – Philadelphia Marriott Downtown Hotel Conference Program DAY 1 (BP) = Best Paper Nominee, (S) = Authored by a student 7:15-8:10 8:15-9:45 18 min/paper + 3 min Q/A

9:45-10:15 10:15-11:20 18 min/paper + 3 min Q/A

11:30-12:15 12:15-1:35 1:40-2:45 18 min/paper + 3 min Q/A

Breakfast and Welcoming Remarks - Salon E 1A. Online Reviews I (Salon C) 1B. Digital Advertising (Salon D) Session chair: Tingting Nian

Session chair: Lu Yingda

1. Davide Proserpio and Georgios Zervas. Online reputation management: Estimating the impact of management responses on consumer reviews(BP,S)

1. Yuxin Chen, Xinxin Li and Monic Sun. Competitive Mobile Targeting

2. Panos Markopoulos, Dimitris Xefteris and Chrysanthos Dellarocas. Manipulating Reviews in Dark Net Markets to Reduce Crime

2. Arslan Aziz and Rahul Telang. Ad Effectiveness versus Consumer Privacy

3. Uttara M. Ananthakrishnan, Beibei Li and Michael D. Smith. A Tangled Web: Evaluating the Impact of Displaying Fraudulent Reviews

3. Anindya Ghose and Vilma Todri. Towards a Digital Attribution Model: Measuring Display Advertising Effects on Online Search Behavior (BP,S)

4. Jorge Mejia, Shawn Mankad and Anand Gopal. More Than Just Words: On Discovering Themes in Online Reviews to Explain Restaurant Closures

4. Zhen Sun, Milind Dawande, Ganesh Janakiraman and Vijay Mookerjee. Analytics for Maximizing Revenue of a Supply-Side Network via Traffic-Stream Mixing

Coffee Break - Foyer Outside Salons C/D 2A. IT and Labor (Salon C) 2B. Digital Goods I (Salon D) Session chair: Hossein Ghasemkhani

Session chair: Vidyanand Choudhary (VC)

1. Xuan Ye and Prasanna Tambe. Why do high-tech firms offer perks at work?

1. Shivendu Shivendu and Ran Zhang. Pricing Information Goods under Dual Medium Access

2. Lynn Wu and Lorin Hitt. How Do Data Skills Affect Firm Productivity: Evidence from Process driven vs. Innovation-driven Practices

2. Hemant Bhargava and Manish Gangwar. Simple Pricing for Information Services: Optimal Three-Part Tariff

3. Emre Demirezen, Rakesh Mallipeddi, Subodha Kumar, and Ram Gopal. Effects of Open Source Software on Software Development and Maintenance

3. Xue Tan, Yi-Chun Ho and Yong Tan. Loyalty Program: the Dilemma of Shipping Fee

Keynote by Duncan Watts (Microsoft Research) - Salon F Lunch and WCAI Presentation (Wharton) - Salon E 3A. IT and Healthcare (Salon C) 3B. Digital Goods II (Salon D) Session chair: Dmitry Zhdanov

Session chair: Sudip Bhattacharjee

1. Abhay Mishra, Youyou Tao, Jeong-Ha Cath Oh and Mark Keil. Quality, Efficiency and Cost at American Hospitals: An Empirical Analysis of the Role of Information Technology

1. Jinpyo Hong, Sang Pil Han, Jae Yun Moon and Wonseok Oh. The Economics of All-You-Can-Read EBook Pricing: An Empirical Analysis

2. Turgay Ayer, Mehmet Ayvaci, Zeynal Karaca and Jan Vlachy. The Impact of Health Information Exchanges on Emergency Department Length of Stay(BP) 3. Hilal Atasoy, Pei-Yu Chen and Kartik Krishna Ganju. The Spillover Effects of Health IT Investments on Regional Health Care Costs(BP)

2. Vidyanand Choudhary and Ran Zhang. Bundling Addon Products with Information Goods 3. Ting Li and Dimitrios Tsekouras. Free Shipping 3.0: Leveraging Scarcity and Popularity Information – A Randomized Field Experiment

2:45-3:00 3:00-4:05

Short Break 4A. Social Implications of Information 4B. Mobile and Local (Salon D) Session chair: Lizhen Xu Systems (Salon C) Session chair: Hyelim Oh

18 min/paper + 3 min Q/A

1. Probal Mojumder and Jason Chan. The Digital Sin City: An Empirical Study of Craigslist’s Impact on Prostitution Trends 2. Brad Greenwood and Sunil Wattal. Show Me The Way To Go Home: An Empirical Investigation of Ride Sharing and Alcohol Related Motor Vehicle Homicide(BP) 3. Tianshu Sun, Guodong Gordon Gao and Ginger Jin. Using Mobile Messaging to Leverage Social Connections for the Social Good: Evidence from a Large-scale Randomized Field Experiment(BP,S)

4:05-4:35 4:35-5:15 9 min/paper + 1 min Q/A

9 min/paper + 1 min Q/A

3. Liangfei Qiu, Zhan Shi and Andrew Whinston. Learning from Your Friends’ Check-Ins: An Empirical Study of Location-Based Social Networks

Session chair: Wen Wen

Session chair: Jui Ramaprasad

1. Zike Cao, Kai-Lung Hui and Hong Xu. When Discounts Hurt Sales: The Case of Daily-Deal Markets

1. Paulo Goes, Chenhui Guo and Mingfeng Lin. Word of Mouth vs. Word of Health Inspectors: Evidence from Restaurant Reviews

2. Tianshu Sun, Siva Viswanathan and Elena Zheleva. Monetizing Sharing Traffic through Incentive Design: Evidence from A Randomized Field Experiment

2. Xiao Liu and Hsinchun Chen. Identifying Adverse Drug Events from Health Social Media Using Distant Supervision

3. Xitong Li. How Do Online Reviews Affect Consumers to “Like” Deal Vouchers before Consumption?

3. Nicolas Pröllochs, Stefan Feuerriegel and Dirk Neumann. When Words Matter Most: Tailoring Domain-Specific Dictionaries with Decision Analytics

6A. Short Paper Session –IT and Competition (Salon C)

4. Konstantin Bauman, Bing Liu and Alexander Tuzhilin. Estimating customer reviews in recommender systems using sentiment analysis methods

Short break 6B. Short Paper Session –High-tech Firms and Workers (Salon D)

Session chair: Mingfeng Lin

Session chair: Martin Bichler

1. Nelson Granados. Are Movie Release Windows for Theater, DVD, and Digital Sell-Through Collapsing? Empirical Evidence

1. Yu-Hsiang Huang and Michael Shaw. Determining Key Attributes for Profiling the Information Technology (IT) Portfolios

2. Filipa Reis, Miguel Godinho de Matos and Pedro Ferreira. Television and Internet Technologies of Convergence: Evidence from a randomized trial

2. Hilal Atasoy, Rajiv Banker and Paul Pavlou. IT Use, IT Skills and Employment Opportunities for Workers

3. Xu Han, Niam Yaraghi and Ram Gopal. An Empirical Investigation on the Prevalence of Manipulation in Nursing Homes’ Rating System 4. Yang Pan, Peng Huang and Anandasivam Gopal. New Entry Threats, Corporate Governance, and Innovation in the U.S. IT Industry

6:30-7:30 8:00

2. Yi-Jen Ian Ho and Sanjeev Dewan. Local Search Analytics: Tradeoff between Location and Brand Characteristics

Coffee Break (with Light Refreshments) - Foyer Outside Salons C/D 5A. Short Paper Session – Group 5B. Short Paper Session – Applications Buying and Auctions (Salon C) of Text Analysis (Salon D)

4. Per Paulsen and Martin Bichler. Bidding with Allowances: Moral Hazard in Package Auctions

5:15-5:30 5:30-6:10

1. Lizhen Xu, Jason Duan, Jeffrey Hu, Yuan Cheng and Yan Zhu. A Dynamic Structural Model for Heterogenous Mobile Data Consumption and Promotion Design

3. Jyotishka Ray, Syam Menon and Vijay Mookerjee. Monetizing Data Through B2B Negotiation: When is a Demonstration Appropriate? 4. Susan Lu, Huaxia Rui and Avi Seidmann. Is Technology Eating Nurses? Staffing Decisions in Nursing Homes.

ISS/ISR Awards Reception (Salon L) CIST Social Event at Revolution House, Old City, Philadelphia (2nd and Market) 200 Market St, Philadelphia, PA 19106

Buses will depart convention center starting at 7:45pm, and will return starting at 9:30 pm until 10:30 pm

DAY 2 7:15-8:10 8:15-9:45 18 min/paper + 3 min Q/A

Breakfast - Foyer Outside Salons C/D 7A. Crowds (Salon C) 7B. Online Reviews II (Salon D) Session chair: Joseph Vithayathil

Session chair: Wael Jabr

1. Mingfeng Lin, Richard Sias and Zaiyan Wei. "Smart Money": Institutional Investors in Online Crowdfunding(BP)

1. Philipp Herrmann, Dennis Kundisch, Steffen Zimmermann and Barrie Nault. Different Sources of the Variance of Online Consumer Ratings and their Impact on Price and Demand(BP)

2. Sofia Bapna. The Independent and Combined Effects of Product Certification, Status and Social Proof: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment in the Context of Equity Crowdfunding 3. Ho Cheung Brian Lee, Jan Stallaert and Ming Fan. Irrationality of Crowds: Information Accuracy and Consistency in Prediction Markets(BP,S) 4. Kevin Hong, Yuheng Hu and Gordon Burtch. How does Social Media Affect Contribution to Public versus Private Goods in Crowdfunding Campaigns?

9:45-10:15 10:15-11:45

2. Vandana Ramachandran, Yang Wang and Olivia Sheng. Quality versus Fit – The Differential Impact of Online Opinions on Product Purchase and Return 3. Yen-Yao Wang, Anjana Susarla and Vallabh Sambamurthy. Clicks to Bricks: The Impact of Social Media and User-Generated Content on Offline Sales in the Automobile Industry 4. Dokyun Lee and Kartik Hosanagar. When do Recommender Systems Work the Best? The Moderating Effects of Product Attributes and Consumer Reviews on Recommender Performance

Coffee Break - Foyer Outside Salons C/D 8A. Word of Mouth and Peer 8B. Piracy and Security (Salon D) Session chair: Zhe (James) Zhang Influence (Salon C) Session chair: Anuj Kumar

18 min/paper + 3 min Q/A

1. Ashish Agarwal, Shun-Yang Lee and Andrew Whinston. Word-of-Mouth in Social Media Advertising: A Randomized Field Experiment

1. Antino Kim, Debabrata Dey and Atanu Lahiri. Competition in the Information-Goods Supply Chain and the Shadow Competition of Piracy(BP,S)

2. Ravi Bapna, Liangfei Qiu and Sarah Rice. Repeated Interactions vs. Social Ties: Quantifying the Economic Value of Trust, Forgiveness, and Reputation Using a Field Experiment(BP)

2. Warut Khern-Am-Nuai, Hajime Shimao and Karthik Kannan. So You Think You are Safe: Implications of Quality Uncertainty in Security Software

3. Ruibin Geng, Bin Zhang and Xi Chen. Modeling Multiple Peer Influences on Repeat Purchase by Online Game Players 4. Gordon Burtch, Yili Hong, Ravi Bapna and Vladas Griskevicius. What Are Social Incentives Worth? A Randomized Field Experiment in User Content Generation

12:00-2:00 PM 2:00-2:40 9 min/paper + 1 min Q/A

3. Can Sun and Yonghua Ji. Software Anti-piracy and Pricing in a Competitive Environment: a Game Theoretic Analysis 4. Hooman Hidaji, Bora Kolfal, Erik Rolland, Raymond Patterson and Lisa Yeo. To Share or Not to Share: Supplier Choice and Customer Demand Reactions to Adverse Events

Lunch and Awards Ceremony - Salon E 9A. Short Paper Session – Platform 9B. Short Paper Session – Crowds and Design (Salon C) Recommendations (Salon D) Session chair: Frank MacCrory

Session chair: Byungwan Koh

1. Rajiv Mukherjee and Ramnath Chellappa. New Platform Announcement Strategies: A Duopoly of Two-sided Platforms

1. Anton Ivanov, Raj Sharman and Ram Bezawada. Comparing the Impact of Online Ratings on Healthcare Provider Business Value across Census Regions

2. Peter Angerer, Marcel Müller and Steffen Zimmermann. Optimal Pricing Behavior of Online Sharing Platforms 3. Jianqing Chen and Zhiling Guo. Online Advertising, Retailer Platform Openness, and Long Tail Sellers 4. Joseph Buckman, Jesse Bockstedt and Matthew

2. Vidyanand Choudhary and Zhe Zhang. Recommender Systems and Consumer Product Search 3. Arthur Carvalho. Determining the Ideal Number of Crowd Workers Based on an Outlier Analysis of the Error Curve 4. Shunyuan Zhang, Param Singh and Anindya Ghose.

Hashim. Analyzing the Value of an Information Disclosure

2:40-2:50 2:50-3:30 9 min/paper + 1 min Q/A

Short break 10A. Short Paper Session – Social and 10B. Short Paper Session – IS and Peer Influence (Salon C) Infrastructure (Salon D) Session chair: Yinliang (Ricky) Tan

Session chair: Yi-Chun (Chad) Ho

1. Hyelim Oh, Animesh Animesh and Alain Pinsonneault. Value Co-creation in Crowdsourcing: The Effects of Social Networks on Product Codevelopment Project Success

1. Micha Kahlen and Wolf Ketter. FleetPower: An Intelligent Trading Strategy to Form Virtual Power Plants in Sustainable Smart Energy Markets

2. Mihyun Lee, Sang Pil Han, Sungho Park and Wonseok Oh. The Spillover Effect of Casual Social Game App Adoption on Mobile App Literacy Enhancement 3. Marios Kokkodis. The Effect of Disclosing Purchase Information on Review Helpfulness: Evidence from Amazon.com 4. Zachary Krastel, Genevieve Bassellier and Jui Ramaprasad. Enabling Social Connectedness: The Role of Social Features on Online Music Sites

4:15

Analyzing The Role of Superstars in Crowdsourcing Contests: A Structural Model

2. Jinyang Zheng, Yong Tan and Xi Chen. Optimizing Two-Sided Promotion for IS Enabled Transportation Network: A Conditional Bayesian Learning Model 3. Konstantina Valogianni, Alok Gupta, Wolfgang Ketter, Soumya Sen and Eric van Heck. Maximizing Social Welfare in Grid Resource Allocation for Electric Vehicle Charging 4. Anna Ye Du, Sanjukta Das, Zhouhan Yang, Chunming Qiao and R. Ramesh. Hierarchical Multi-Domain Architecture in Cloud Datacenters: Predicting Transient Downtime of Client Services

ISS Business Meeting - Salon J