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• Explore the competitive effects of software patents and the amplifying role of company capabilities.
• Software patents held by a company negatively correlate with the market value of its competitors.
• Competitors’ enhanced R&D ...

Software patents have been shown to have a positive effect on the patenting firm’s market value. Although there is anecdotal evidence that software patents of a focal firm can adversely affect its rival firms, there is a paucity of empirical ...

Our paper shows that firm-initiated social media can contribute significantly to the value of firms. The findings provide a rationale for firms to invest heavily in their social media while countering those who question the value of social media. Using a ...

The primary goal of this study is to investigate the financial returns to firms’ communication actions on a firm-initiated social media platform by focusing on Facebook Business pages. To this end, we conceptualize and quantify two types of firms’ ...

While social media has emerged as a key source of information used by consumers in their attitude formation, whether and how companies build a psychological distance with customers has not been thoroughly examined. This study investigates the influence ...

This research investigates the relationship between IS investment and IS success and the moderating effects of IS maturity. We find the moderating role of IS maturity between IS investment and IS success with a contingency perspective. As administering ...

While prior research has examined the role of Information Technology (IT) investments in the process and performance of innovation, there is relatively little research on the business value of IT innovation itself. In particular, the impact of a firm's ...

This study theorizes and empirically examines how firms' social media efforts---in terms of intensity, richness, and responsiveness---influence consumer behavior and firm performance. Using detailed data collected from the Facebook pages of 63 firms ...

We explore digital creativity by examining the role of enterprise mobile applications.Habitual use and task-technology fit positively influence perceived job performance.Higher organizational agility increases the impact of task-technology fit on job ...

This study examines how organizational workers improve their perceived job performance through the use of Mobile Enterprise Systems (MES), while also investigating the impact of perceived organizational agility and location independence on technology ...

The current study utilized regulatory focus theory to explain how online deliberations are processed differently depending on a participant's information processing style and the characteristics of a discussion topic. An experiment was conducted to ...

The purpose of this research is to develop a comprehensive information system (IS) evaluation model for IS success linked to organizational performance. The primary focus of this research is to investigate the role of IT investment in business values by ...