Economics, information systems, and electronic commerce : empirical research

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 collecting and cataloging transactional data. The ideas it presents have broad appeal and demonstrate what is possible when new techniques and new ways of thinking are brought to bear on complex research problems.

• Series Editor's Introduction Vladimir Zwass
• Acknowledgments
• 1 Opportunities and Challenges for IS Research: Beyond the Bounds of Statistical Inference Robert J. Kauffman and Paul P. Tallon
• I Strategies for Empirical Advances in IS and E-Commerce Research
• 2 Research Strategies for E-Business: A Philosophy of Science View in the Age of the Internet Robert J. Kauffman and Charles A. Wood
• 3 A Potential Outcomes Approach to Assess Causality in IS Research Sunil Mithas and Daniel Almirall and M.S. Krishnan
• II Understanding the Dynamics and Outcomes Associated with IT Investments
• 4 Empirical Analysis of IT Project Investment Portfolios Ryan Sougstad and Indranil R. Bardhan
• 5 Evaluating IT Industry Performance: A Stochastic Production Frontier Approach Benjamin B. M. Shao and Winston T. Lin
• 6 Using Accounting-Based Performance Measures to Assess the Business Value of IT Bruce Dehning and Vernon J. Richardson and Rodney E. Smith and Robert W. Zmud
• III New Approaches for Studying Mechanism Design in On-Line Auctions
• 7 Modeling Dynamics in On-Line Auctions: A Modern Statistical Approach Wolfgang Jank and Galit Shmueli
• 8 Empirical Design of Incentive Mechanisms in Group-Buying Auctions Her-sen Doong and Robert J. Kauffman and Hsiangchu Lai and Ya-Ting Zhuang
• IV New Empirical Approaches to the Analysis of Weblogs and Digital Community Forums
• 9 Empirical Advances for the Study of Weblogs: Random Effects Models Kai-Lung Hui and Yee-Lin Lai and Shun-Jian Yee
• 10 Choice-Based Sampling and Estimation of Choice Probabilities in Is and E-Commerce Research Jungpil Hahn and Chen Zhang
• V Looking Forward: Challenges, Transformations and Advances
• 11 Debating the Nature of Empirical E-Commerce Research: Issues, Challenges and Directions Vijay Gurbaxani and Henry C. Lucas Jr and Paul P. Tallon
• Editors and Contributors
• Series Editor
• Index