CIST 2014 Program
November 8 – 9, 2014
San Francisco, California
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2014
7:00 – 8:00 AM
8:00 – 9:45 AM
Light Breakfast
(Golden Gate 8)
Session 1A: Pricing and Auction
(Golden Gate 2)
Chair: Hossein Ghasemkhani
Session 1B: Social Network
(Golden Gate 3)
Chair: Sri Narasimhan
1. Price Discounts and Peer Effects in 1. The Impact of Social
Information Goods: A Randomized
Connections on Credit Scoring.
Experiment. Miguel Godinho de
Yanhao Wei, Pinar Yildirim,
Matos, Pedro Ferreira and Rodrigo
Christophe van der Bulte and
Belo.
Chris Dellarocas.
2. Information Revelation in B2B
2. Improving Cascade Propagation
Sequential Auctions. Yixin Lu, Alok
in Adaptable Networks. Ram
Gupta, Wolfgang Ketter and Eric
Gopal, Hooman Hidaji,
van Heck.
Raymond Patterson, Erik
3. Platform Investment in Third Party
Rolland and Dmitry Zhdanov.
Content Development. Burcu Tan,
3. Is Social Network Platform
Edward Anderson and Geoffrey
Integration Valuable for an
Parker.
Online Service? A Randomized
4. Learning and Wages in High-Tech
Field Experiment and Archival
Labor Markets. Prasanna Tambe,
Data Analysis. Michael
Xuan Ye and Peter Cappelli.
Frutiger, Eric Overby and D.J.
Wu.
4. Understanding the Effect of
Message Design on FirmMediated Online Social
Interactions: A Randomized
Field Experiment. Tianshu Sun,
Siva Viswanathan and Elena
Zheleva.
9:45 – 10:00 AM
Coffee Break
(Plaza B)
10:00 – 11:00 AM
Speaker: Hal Varian
Chief Economist, Google
“Using Google Data”
(Plaza B)
Biography
Hal R. Varian is the Chief Economist at Google. He started in May 2002
as a consultant and has been involved in many aspects of the company,
including auction design, econometric analysis, finance, corporate strategy
and public policy. He is also an emeritus professor at the University of
California, Berkeley in three departments: business, economics, and
information management. He received his SB degree from MIT in 1969
and his MA in mathematics and Ph.D. in economics from UC Berkeley in
1973. He has also taught at MIT, Stanford, Oxford, Michigan and other
universities around the world.
Dr. Varian is a fellow of the Guggenheim Foundation, the Econometric
Society, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was CoEditor of the American Economic Review from 1987-1990 and holds
honorary doctorates from the University of Oulu, Finland and the
University of Karlsruhe, Germany. Professor Varian has published
numerous papers in economic theory, industrial organization, financial
economics, econometrics and information economics. He is the author of
two major economics textbooks which have been translated into 22
languages. He is the co-author of a bestselling book on business strategy,
Information Rules: A Strategic Guide to the Network Economy and wrote
a monthly column for the New York Times from 2000 to 2007.
11:15 – 1:00 PM
Session 2A: HIE and EHR
(Golden Gate 2)
Chair: Indranil Bardhan
Session 2B: Mobile Technologies
(Golden Gate 3)
Chair: Sam Ransbotham
1. Disclosure of Medical History
on Health Information
Exchange Platforms: Rational
Drivers, Psychological Cues
and Environmental Effects.
Niam Yaraghi, Raj Sharman,
Ram Gopal and Ram Ramesh.
2. Sustainability of Healthcare
Information Exchanges. Emre
Demirezen, Subodha Kumar
and Arun Sen.
3. Predictive Analytics for
Chronic Care: A Time-to-Event
Modeling Framework using
1. Zoom in iOS Clones:
Examining the Impact of
Copycats on Mobile App
Downloads. Quan Wang, Beibei
Li and Param Singh.
2. The Impact of iPhone
Exclusivity Arrangement on
Demand for Smartphones.
Daegon Cho, Anuj Kumar and
Rahul Telang.
3. Nature or Nurture? An Analysis
of Rational Addiction to Mobile
Social Applications. Hyeokkoo
Eric Kwon, Hyunji So, Sangpil
Electronic Health Records. YuKai Lin, Hsinchun Chen,
Randall Brown, Shu-Hsing Li
and Hung-Jen Yang.
4. Beyond Adoption: Does
Meaningful Use of EHR
Improve Quality of Care? YuKai Lin, Mingfeng Lin and
Hsinchun Chen.
1:30 – 2:30 PM
2:30 – 2:45 PM
2:45 – 4:00 PM
Panel Discussion: Sharing Economy
Moderator: Arun Sundararajan
(Plaza B)
Coffee Break
Session 3A: Security and Privacy
Session 3B: Cloud Computing
(Golden Gate 2)
(Golden Gate 3)
Chair: Dmitry Zhdanov
Chair: Varghese Jacob
1. Aiming at a More CostEfficient Census Via Online
Data Collection: Privacy TradeOffs of Geo-Location. Laura
Brandimarte and Alessandro
Acquisti.
2. Examining Formation Process
and Antecedents of Online
Privacy Concerns. Jongtae Yu
and Paul Hu.
3. Meaningful Healthcare
Security: Does “MeaningfulUse” Attestation Improve
Information Security
Performance? Juhee Kwon and
M. Eric Johnson.
4:15 – 6:00 PM
6:30 PM
Han and Wonseok Oh.
4. What Happens When Online
Word of Mouth Goes Mobile?
Gord Burtch and Yili Hong.
1. Early Proactive Education,
Customer Retention, and
Demand for Technology
Support: Evidence from a Field
Experiment. German F. Retana,
Chris Forman and D.J. Wu.
2. Availability-aware Resource
Provisioning, Pricing, and
Allocation Adjustment in the
Cloud. Shuai Yuan, Sanjukta
Das, Ramaswamy Ramesh,
Zhouhan Yang and Chunming
Qiao.
3. Estimating the Treatment Effect
of Spam Information Disclosure
on Organizations: A Field
Experiment. Shu He, Gene Moo
Lee and Andrew Whinston.
Poster Slam
(Grand Ballroom)
Session Chair: Lei Wang
Session Associate: Aindrila Chakraborty
ISS/ISR Awards Reception
(Plaza B)
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2014
7:00 – 8:00 AM
8:00 – 9:45 AM
Light Breakfast
(Golden Gate Foyer)
Session 4A: Competitive Markets
Session 4B: Social Media
(Golden Gate 2)
(Golden Gate 3)
Chair: Hong Guo
Chair: Anjana Susarla
1. Competition among Proprietary 1. The Goldilocks Principle: Why
and Open-Source Software
Mid-Tier Brands Invest More in
Firms: The Role of Licensing
Social Media. Tingting Nian
on Strategic Contribution.
and Arun Sundararajan. (ƞ)
Terrence August, Wei Chen and 2. Firms’ Social Media Efforts,
Kevin Zhu. (ƞ)
Consumer Behavior, and Firm
2. Platform Competition and
Performance: Evidence from
Compatibility Decisions: The
Facebook. Sunghun Chung,
Case of Apple’s iPad vs.
Animesh Animesh, Kunsoo Han
Amazon’s Kindle. Ron Adner,
and Alain Pinsonneault.
Jianqing Chen and Feng Zhu.
3. Understanding Word-of-Mouth
(ƞ)
and Customer Engagement on
3. The Impact of the Internet on
Facebook Business Pages.
Geographic Competition among
Mochen Yang, Yuqing Ren and
Small Local Firms. Brent
Gediminas Adomavicius.
Kitchens, Anuj Kumar and
Praveen Pathak.
4. Data Sharing between
Personalizing and NonPersonalizing Firms. Abhijeet
Ghoshal, Subodha Kumar and
Vijay Mookerjee.
9:45 – 10:00 AM
10:00 – 11:00 AM
Coffee Break
(Plaza B)
Panel Discussion: The Next Research Frontier in Social, Mobile,
Analytics, Cloud and Security
Moderator: Sudip Bhattacharjee
Distinguished Panelists:
Piero Bonissone, Chief Scientist and Coolidge Fellow, GE, Retd.
Laura Haas, IBM Fellow, Founder and Director of the Accelerated
Discovery Lab, IBM
Robert Stackowiak, Vice President – Information Architecture and Big
Data, Enterprise Solutions Group, Oracle
(Plaza B)
11:15 – 12:30 PM
12:30 – 2:30 PM
2:30 – 3:45 PM
Session 5A: Crowd Computing
(Golden Gate 2)
Chair: D. J. Wu
Session 5B: Internet Ads
(Golden Gate 3)
Chair: Wael Jabr
1. Linguistic Features and Peer-toPeer Loan Quality: A Machine
Learning Approach. Qiang Gao
and Mingfeng Lin. (ƞ)
2. Jack of All, Master of Some:
The Interaction Effect of
Knowledge Breadth and Depth
on Innovation. Elina Hwang,
Param Vir Singh and Linda
Argote.
3. Crowd-Squared: Amplifying
the Predictive Power of LargeScale Crowd-Based Data. Erik
Brynjolfsson, Tomer Geva and
Shachar Reichman.
1. Perils of Uncertainty? The
Impact of Contextual
Ambiguity on Search
Advertising Keyword
Performance. Jing Gong,
Vibhanshu Abhishek and Beibei
Li. (ƞ)
2. The Order of Succession:
Sequencing Fading Ads during
an Online User Visit. Zhen Sun,
Vijay Mookerjee, Milind
Dawande and Ganesh
Janakiraman.
3. Social Advertising: When Does
it Work? Ashish Agarwal and
Kartik Hosanagar. (ƞ)
Lunch and Award Ceremony
CIST 2014 Awards
ISS Nunamaker-Chen Dissertation Award
ISS Distinguished Fellow Awards
(Plaza B)
Session 6A: Gamification
(Golden Gate 2)
Chair: Chris Dellarocas
Session 6B: E-commerce
(Golden Gate 3)
Chair: Paul Pavlou
1. Social Influence in Online
1. Access Affordance Of Mobile
Social Games: Understanding
Technology In E-Commerce:
its effect on Willingness to Play
Change Of Purchase Time
and Willingness to Pay. Xi
Dispersion. Youngsok Bang,
Chen, Paulo Goes, Chenhui
Dong-Joo Lee and Kunsoo Han.
Guo and Cheng Zhang. (ƞ)
2. E-Commerce Strategy: An
2. Behavioral Mechanisms
Analysis of Online Marketplace
towards Badges: The SmallSeller Tactics. Haoyan Sun,
Area Hypothesis. Tobias Mutter
Yong Tan and Ming Fan.
and Dennis Kundisch.
3. Can Facilitating Multichannel
3. Analyzing the Impact of
Usage Improve Customer Value
Incentive Structure on the
for Firms? Anuj Kumar, Amit
Diffusion of Mobile Social
Mehra and Subodha Kumar.
Games: A Randomized Field
Experiment. Ravi Bapna, Alok
Gupta, Jaehwuen Jung and
Soumya Sen.
3:45 – 4:00 PM
4:00 – 5:15 PM
Coffee Break
(Golden Gate Foyer)
Session 7A: IT and Industry
Session 7B: Online Information
(Golden Gate 2)
Sharing
Chair: Adam Saunders
(Golden Gate 3)
Chair: Siva Viswanathan
1. Digitization, Unbundling, and
Piracy: Consumer Adoption
1. Customers are from Mars,
amidst Disruptive Innovations
Managers are from Venus:
in the Music Industry.
Deriving Customer Satisfaction
Byungwan Koh, Il-Horn Hann
Drivers from Online Reviews.
and Srinivasan Raghunathan.
Mohsen Farhadloo, Raymond
2. The Future of Higher
Patterson and Erik Rolland.
Education: The Impact of
2. Who thinks you are hot?
MOOCs on College
Information Revelation in
Admissions. Panagiotis
Online Dating: A Randomized
Adamopoulos and Jason Chan.
Field Experiment. Ravi Bapna,
3. The Impacts of Health
Jui Ramaprasad and Akhmed
Information Technology (HIT)
Umyarov.
Complementarities on Hospital 3. Baring Out with Iron Hands:
Performance: A Spatial
Can Disclosing Make Us
Approach. Hyeyoung Hah and
Harsher? Laura Brandimarte,
Anandhi Bharadwaj.
Alessandro Acquisti and
Francesca Gino.
5:30 PM
(ƞ) Best Paper Award Nominees
Information Systems Society Business Meeting
CIST 2014 Posters
November 8 – 9, 2014
San Francisco, California
1. Price with Unauthorized Distribution Channels: An Analytical Model and Empirical
Analysis. Zhongju Zhang and Juan Feng.
2. Can Lower Rating Drive Higher Demand? Exploring the Role of Online Reviews in
Different Product Life Cycle Stages. Yang Wang, Kangkang Qi and Shyam Gopinath.
3. Strategic Focus, Client Satisfaction and Firm Performance: Evidence from Offshore Business
Process Outsourcing Providers. Jiban Khuntia, Jonathan Whitaker, Sunil Mithas and Anjali
Kaushik.
4. Identifying Network Externalities in Viral Products: Evidence from a Large Mobile Network.
Rodrigo Belo and Pedro Ferreira.
5. Media Interactions and Follower Growth within Content-based Online Social Networks. E.
Mitchell Church, Xia Zhao and Lakshmi Iyer.
6. An Optimal Effort Allocation and Release Policy for Agile Software Development. Monica
Johar and Vijay Mookerjee.
7. Rethinking Readmission as a Hospital Quality Metric: Insurance Coverage and Latent Patient
Health Status Affect Patients' Rate of Readmission. Sezgin Ayabakan, Indranil Bardhan and
Eric Zheng.
8. The Impact of Platform Integration on Consumer Demand in Complementary Markets:
Evidence from Facebook’s Integration of Instagram. Zhuoxin Li and Ashish Agarwal.
9. Free Digital Goods and Firm Productivity. Frank Nagle.
10. An Analysis of Incentive Structures in Collaborative Economy: an Application to
Crowdfunding Platform. Na Zhang, Sumon Datta and Karthik Kannan.
11. Positioning in Information Technology Collaboration Networks and Returns to R&D
Investment. Ali Tafti, Vishal Sachdev, Sunil Mithas and Lauren Mallik.
12. Digital Transformation and Organizational Performance: Differential Effects of
Transformation Capability and Digitally Transformed Processes. George Westerman and
Frank MacCrory.
13. Pricing Strategies of In-Game Virtual Currency. Hong Guo, Lin Hao, Tridas Mukhopadhyay
and Daewon Sun.
14. Overcoming Free-Riding in Information Goods: Sanctions or Rewards? Matthew Hashim
and Jesse Bockstedt.
15. Health Information Exchange and Reduced Healthcare Spending. Idris Adjerid, Julia AdlerMilstein and Corey Angst.
16. Exploring the Relationship between Local Market Structure and Digitized Customer
Experience. Philipp Herrmann and Mohammad Rahman.
17. The Impact of Twitter Adoption on Congressmen’s Voting Behavior. Reza Mousavi and Bin
Gu.
18. Exploring the Tyranny of Choice and the State of Satiation in Mobile App Use: A Multiple
Discrete-Continuous Extreme Value Approach. Sang Pil Han, Sungho Park and Wonseok
Oh.
19. The Value of Multi-dimensional Rating Systems: An Information Transfer View. Ying Liu,
Pei-Yu Chen and Yili Hong.
20. Impact of Piracy on Information-Goods Supply Chain. Antino Kim, Atanu Lahiri and
Debabrata Dey.
21. Rule Following in Information Security Policy Compliance Behavior: the Role of
Interpersonal Influence. Adel Yazdanmehr, Jingguo Wang and H Raghav Rao.
22. Adaptive Learning Agents for Electric Vehicle Customer Decision Support. Konstantina
Valogianni, Wolfgang Ketter, John Collins and Dmitry Zhdanov.
23. Customer Data Acquisition and Selection: A Value-Based Analysis and Design. Xiaoping
Liu and Xiaobai Li.
24. Deal or No Deal? The Role of Merchant Characteristics and Competition in the Effect of
Online Deals on Consumer Quality Perceptions. Jorge Mejia, Anand Gopal and Michael
Trusov.
25. Do You Have a Room for Us in Your IT? – An Economic Analysis of Shared IT Services
and Implications for IT Industries. Min Chen and Min-Seok Pang.
26. Estimating the Effects of EMR on Medical Billing Practices. Sasha Romanosky, Idris Adjerid
and Ellerie Weber.
27. Effect of Piracy on Adoption of Technological Innovation in the Entertainment Industry.
Vibhanshu Abhishek, Rahul Telang and Yi Zhang.
28. Socio-Emotional Antecedents of Collaborative Information Processing Behavior in Crisis
Situations: A Study of the 2010 Haiti Earthquake. Rohit Valecha, Onook Oh and H.R. Rao.
29. Is Altruism Overrated? Effects of Information Transparency and Social Value Orientation on
Smart Grid Balancing. Xu Han, Sudip Bhattacharjee, Wolfgang Ketter and Laurens Rook.