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The Paradox of Breadth: The Tension between Experience and Legitimacy in the Transition to Entrepreneurship

Authors: Aleksandra Kacperczyk, Peter Younkin

Publication: Administrative Science Quarterly, Vol. 62, No. 4, December 2017

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Published: 22 Mar 2017

Alain Pinsonneault leads IS research for 2016

Congratulations to Professor Alain Pinsonneault who has placed first in the world for research productivity in his field by the Association for Information Systems (AIS). The ranking is conducted annually to assess the research output of Information Technology scholars and is based on a weighted score that accounts for the number of authors on a single paper.

Published: 6 Mar 2017

A typology of user liability to IT addiction

Authors: Issac Vaghefi, Liette Lapointe and Camille Boudreau-Pinsonneault

Publication: Information Systems Journal 

Published: 23 Feb 2017

Social value and content value in social media: Two paths to psychological well-being

Authors: Jiao, Y., Jo, M.S., Sarigollu, E.

Publication: Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce 

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Published: 10 Feb 2017

Special Section Introduction—Online Community as Space for Knowledge Flows

Authors: Faraj, S., Krogh, G., Monteiro, E., Lakhani, K.R.

Publication: Information Systems Research 

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Published: 10 Feb 2017

Exotic Interest Rate Swaps: Snowballs in Portugal

Authors: Vallee, B.,  Augustin, P.,  Rich, P.

Publications: Harvard Business Publishing 

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Published: 8 Feb 2017

Group Selling, Product Durability, and Consumer Behavior

Authors: He, Y., Ray, S., Yin, S.

Publications: Production and Operations Management

Published: 30 Jan 2017

Matters of visuality in legitimation practices: Dual iconographies in a meeting room

Authors: Vaujany, F.X., Vaast, E. 

Publication: Organization 

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Published: 30 Jan 2017

Gene and environment interaction: Is the differential susceptibility hypothesis relevant for obesity?

AuthorsMollea, R.D., Fatemia, H., Dagherb, A., Levitanc, R.D., Silveirad, P.P., Dubé, L.

Publication: Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews

Published: 25 Jan 2017

Sustainability Research Symposium

Registration is now open for 7th annual Sustainability Research Symposium at McGill from March 9th-10th, 2017. This student-led symposium brings together students and researchers to share ideas on this year’s theme of Resilience. Sign up now for the opportunity to hear from keynote lecturers, and participate in a poster and networking session, as well as a new applied sustainability worksho

Published: 24 Jan 2017

2017 SSHRC Connection Grant

Congratulations to Professor Demetrios Vakratsas on receiving a 2017 SSHRC Connection Grant for his project entitled “Empirical & Theoretical Canadian Marketing Strategy Symposium: Marketing Analytics for Better Decisions”.

Published: 19 Jan 2017

Who Are the Value and Growth Investors?

Authors: Betermier, S., Calvet, L.E., Sodini, P.

Publication: The Journal of Finance, Vol. 72, No. 1, 2017 

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Published: 13 Jan 2017

Monetizing Freemium Communities: Does Paying for Premium Increase Social Engagement?

Authors: Bapna, R., Ramaprasad , J., Umyarov , A.

Publication: MIS Quarterly, 42(3), 719-735

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Making sustainable profits from a baseline zero price and motivating free consumers to convert to premium subscribers is a continuing challenge for all freemium communities. Prior research has causally established that social engagement (Oestreicher-Singer and Zalmanson 2013) and peer influence (Bapna and Umyarov 2015) are two important drivers of users converting to premium subscribers in such communities. In this paper, we flip the perspective of prior research and ask whether the decision to pay for premium subscription causes users to become more socially engaged. In the context of the Last.fm music listening freemium social community, we establish, using a novel 41 month long panel dataset, a look-ahead propensity score matching (LA-PSM) procedure coupled with a difference-in-difference estimator of the treatment effect, that payment for premium leads to more social engagement. Specifically, we find that paying for premium leads to an increase in both content-related and community-related social engagement. Free users who convert to premium listen to 287.2% more songs, create 1.92% more playlists, exhibit a 2.01% increase in the number of forum posts made, and gain 15.77% more friends. Thus, premium subscribers create value not only for themselves by consuming more content, but also for the community and site by organizing more content and adding more friends, who are subsequently engaged by the social diffusion emerging from the focal user’s activities.

Read full abstract: MISQ, December 15, 2016 

Published: 11 Jan 2017

The influence of IT and knowledge capabilities on the survival of university IT startups

Authors: Divinus Oppong-Tawiah, Yolande E. Chan

Publication: International Journal of Technoentrepreneurship

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Published: 12 Dec 2016

Carlos Rodriguez awarded the Gunnar Hedlund Award 2015-2016

Carlos Rodriguez (PhD'15) has been awarded the Gunnar Hedlund Award 2015-2016 for his outstanding dissertation entitled "Global Subunit Specialization: An organizational perspective", which was recognized for its originality, as well as for its sound empirical work and practical results.

Published: 9 Dec 2016

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