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Author Kauffman, Robert J

Title Economics, Information Systems, and Electronic Commerce
Published Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (337 pages)
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Series Editor's Introduction; Acknowledgments; 1. Opportunities and Challenges for Information Systems Research: Beyond the Bounds of Statistical Inference-An Introduction; Part I. Strategies for Empirical Advances in Information Systems and E-Commerce Research; 2. Research Strategies for E-Business: A Philosophy of Science View in the Age of the Internet; 3. A Potential Outcomes Approach to Assess Causality in Information Systems Research
Part II. Understanding the Dynamics and Outcomes Associated with Information Technology Investments4. Empirical Analysis of Information Technology Project Investment Portfolios; 5. Evaluating Information Technology Industry Performance: A Stochastic Production Frontier Approach; 6. Using Accounting-Based Performance Measures to Assess the Business Value of Information Technologies and Systems; Part III. New Approaches for Studying Mechanism Design in Online Auctions; 7. Modeling Dynamics in Online Auctions: A Modern Statistical Approach
8. Empirical Design of Incentive Mechanisms in Group-Buying AuctionsPart IV. New Empirical Approaches to the Analysis of Weblogs and Digital Community Forums; 9. Empirical Advances for the Study of Weblogs: Relevance and Testing of Random Effects Model; 10. Choice-Based Sampling and Estimation of Choice Probabilities in Information Systems and E-Commerce Research; Part V. Looking Forward: Challenges, Transformations, and Advances; 11. Debating the Nature of Empirical E-Commerce Research: Issues, Challenges, and Directions; Editors and Contributors; Series Editor; Index
Summary The methods and thinking of economics permeate a large part of the IS discipline. Reciprocally, newly emerging research methods relying on the IT-enabled treatment of massive data aggregates feed economic research. As new and radical forms of IT innovation continue to energize electronic commerce, IS researchers face a daunting task in using existing empirical methods and tools to understand the threats, opportunities, risks, and rewards of these new techniques. This groundbreaking volume leads the way. It introduces new methodological approaches to data analysis as well as new techniques for
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Subject Information technology -- Economic aspects
Electronic commerce.
Electronic commerce
Information technology -- Economic aspects
Form Electronic book
Author Tallon, Paul P
ISBN 9781317472438
1317472438