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SONG, Taikgun
SELA, Aner
The Interplay of Subjectivity and Objectivity in Online Reviews
User reviews are an essential source of information for consumers, exerting a considerable influence on purchase decisions. In general, reviews rated as more helpful exert a greater influence downstream. But how do the linguistic characteristics of a review affect its helpfulness? Thanks to HKUST’s Sang Kyu Park and two colleagues, marketers now have fresh ... Read More
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LI, Tian
Empowering Supply Chains: A Novel Wholesale Pricing Mechanism for Information Sharing
Limited information sharing between retailers and their suppliers represents a critical bottleneck in the performance of supply chains. Working with a colleague, HKUST’s Hongtao Zhang proposes a novel wholesale pricing mechanism that will benefit both retailers and manufacturers and ultimately enhance supply chain efficiency. “Advances in information ... Read More
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RAI, Arun
TANG, Xinlin
DU, Steven
Attracting Loyal Customers with High-Quality Tracking Information
For business-to-business (B2B) service providers, securing loyal customers—a critical asset for any firm—remains challenging. This is especially true for B2B logistics, a major sector of the U.S. economy, which has experienced major stress amid de-globalization, COVID-19, and the move to online marketplaces. In a timely study responding to the affordances of ... Read More
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When people try to infer how well someone will do on a task, they often rely on group characteristics. For example, people who graduated from university may be perceived as more conscientious, leading employers to prefer those with degrees even for jobs that do not require specific knowledge related to the degree. In many cases, these inferences are likely ... Read More
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ZEEVI, Assaf
Online Reviews, Product Quality, and Information Sharing
In today’s competitive online retail environment, reviews represent an important quality signal that helps customers make more informed purchase decisions. The impact of reviews can propagate up the supply chain, affecting multiple firms’ decisions on pricing and product quality. HKUST’s Dongwook Shin and a colleague shed new light on this phenomenon ... Read More
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LI, Tian
Empowering Supply Chains: A Novel Wholesale Pricing Mechanism for Information Sharing
Limited information sharing between retailers and their suppliers represents a critical bottleneck in the performance of supply chains. Working with a colleague, HKUST’s Hongtao Zhang proposes a novel wholesale pricing mechanism that will benefit both retailers and manufacturers and ultimately enhance supply chain efficiency. “Advances in information ... Read More
[ BizStudies ]
BIAN, Yiwen
YAN, Shuai
YI, Zelong
GUAN, Xu
Agriculture plays a critical role in emerging economies worldwide. Unfortunately, however, farmers in such regions remain trapped in poverty, due in large part to information asymmetry in agricultural supply chains. Governments and farming cooperatives are in urgent need of strategies to redress this imbalance and improve farmers’ welfare and profitability ... Read More
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LI, Frank Weikai
SEN, Rik
New Light on Corporate Insider Trading
Insider trading—buying and selling shares based on non-public information—can threaten the equilibrium of the stock market by giving some traders an advantage over others. Although the term “insider trading” often carries the implication of illegal activity, top managers can legally trade company stock if they report their trades to the authorities in a ... Read More
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ZHANG, Yang
Social networks are a good example of the complexity of human relationships, where a person’s daily life decisions are regularly affected by the choices of their friends. This challenges extensive research on the economics of networks, in which individual activities have global impacts on the activities of others. In short, the externalities of network ... Read More
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