Browsing by Author "Zhu, Feng"

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    • Business Model Innovation and Competitive Imitation: The Case of Sponsor-Based Business Models 

      Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon; Zhu, Feng (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013)
      This paper provides the first formal model of business model innovation. Our analysis focuses on sponsor-based business model innovations where a firm monetizes its product through sponsors rather than setting prices to ...

    • Competing with Complementors: An Empirical Look at Amazon.com 

      Zhu, Feng; Liu, Qihong (Wiley, 2018-08-28)
      Research Summary: Platform owners sometimes enter complementors' product spaces and compete against them. Using data from Amazon.com to study Amazon's entry pattern into third‐party sellers' product spaces, we find that ...

    • Do Experts or Crowd-Based Models Produce More Bias? Evidence from Encyclopædia Britannica and Wikipedia 

      Greenstein, Shane; Zhu, Feng (2018)
      Organizations today can use both crowds and experts to produce knowledge. While prior work compares the accuracy of crowd-produced and expert-produced knowledge, we compare bias in these two models in the context of contested ...

    • The Evolution of Two-Sided Markets: A Dynamic Model 

      Zhu, Feng; Mitzenmacher, Michael D. (2010)
      Static models of two-sided markets often lead to multiple equilibria as a result of increasing return to demand. Typically the market can be monopolistic or oligopolistic in equilibrium. We provide a simple dynamic model ...

    • Frenemies in Platform Markets: Heterogeneous Profit Foci as Drivers of Compatibility Decisions 

      Adner, Ron; Chen, Jianqing; Zhu, Feng (Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), 2020-06)
      We study compatibility decisions of two competing platform owners that generate profits through both hardware sales and royalties from content sales. We consider a game-theoretic model in which two platforms offer different ...

    • Friends or Foes? Examining Platform Owners’ Entry into Complementors’ Spaces 

      Zhu, Feng (Wiley, 2018-12-29)
      As platform owners continue to expand their ecosystems, many of them have started to provide consumers with their own complementary applications. These moves position the platform owners as direct competitors to their ...

    • Gender Inequality in Research Productivity During the COVID-19 Pandemic 

      Cui, Ruomeng; Ding, Hao; Zhu, Feng (Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), 2022-03)
      Problem definition: We study the disproportionate impact of the lockdown as a result of the COVID-19 outbreak on female and male academic research productivity in social science. Academic/practical relevance: The lockdown ...

    • Network Interconnectivity and Entry into Platform Markets 

      Zhu, Feng; Li, Xinxin; Valavi, Ehsan; Iansiti, Marco (Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), 2021-09)
      Digital technologies have led to the emergence of many platforms in our economy today. In certain platform networks, buyers in one market purchase services from providers in many other markets, whereas in others, buyers ...

    • Open Content, Linus’ Law, and Neutral Point of View 

      Greenstein, Shane; Zhu, Feng (Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), 2016-09)
      The diffusion of the Internet and digital technologies has enabled many organizations to use the open-content production model to produce and disseminate knowledge. While several prior studies have shown that the open-content ...