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Taha Havakhor (Principal Investigator) and Hyunji So (Co-Applicant) for 鈥淪ocial Media Use and Workforce Disparities: A Study of Gender Pay and Promotion Gaps鈥�
Professor Samer Faraj has been named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada鈥檚 Academy of Social Sciences. This honour is conferred upon Professor Faraj in recognition of his outstanding research and scholarly achievement.
Authors: Sudha Mani, Vivek Astvansh and Kersi D. Antia
Publication:听听Journal of Marketing, Forthcoming, EXPRESS: First published online July 27, 2023
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Authors:听Vivek Astvansh and Kamran Eshghi
Publication: Journal of Business Research, Volume 167, November 2023, Article 114052
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Authors: Warut Khern-am-nuai, Hyunji So, Maxime C. Cohen and Yossiri Adulyasak
Publication: Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Forthcoming
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Restaurant review platforms, such as Yelp and Tripadvisor, routinely receive large numbers of photos in their review submissions. These photos provide significant value for users who seek to compare restaurants. In this context, the choice of cover images (i.e., representative photos of the restaurants) can greatly influence the level of user engagement on the platform. Unfortunately, selecting these images can be time consuming and often requires human intervention. At the same time, it is challenging to develop a systematic approach to assess the effectiveness of the selected images. In this paper, we collaborate with a large review platform in Asia to investigate this problem. We discuss two image selection approaches, namely crowd-based and AI-based systems. The AI-based system we use learn complex latent image features, which is further enhanced by transfer learning to overcome the scarcity of labeled data. We collaborate with the platform to deploy our AI-based system through a randomized field experiment to carefully compare both systems. We find that the AI-based system outperforms the crowd-based counterpart and boosts user engagement by 12.43%-16.05% on average. We then conduct empirical analyses on observational data to identify the underlying mechanisms that drive the superior performance of the AI-based system. Finally, we infer from our findings that the AI-based system outperforms the crowd-based system for restaurants with a (i) longer tenure on the platform, (ii) limited number of user-generated photos, (iii) lower star rating, and (iv) lower user engagement during the crowd-based system.
Yu Ma, Associate Professor at the 好色TVl Desautels Faculty of Management, discusses the consumer implications of aspartame being listed as "possibly carcinogenic to humans" by the World Health Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), potentially increasing scrutiny and concerns about the safety of food additives. Professor Ma suggests that consumers may become more cautious about processed foods and seek out "clean label" options with recognizable ingredients.
Authors: Isaac Vaghefi, Bogdan Negoita, and Liette Lapointe
Publication: Information Systems Research; Volume 34, Issue 1, March 2023, Pages 85-110
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Authors: Ernan Haruvy, Meisam Hejazi Nia, 脰zalp 脰zer, and A. Serdar 艦im艧ek
Publication:听Manufacturing & Service Operations Management; Volume 25, Issue 3, May-June 2023, Pages 1155-1175
Authors: Sanjith Gopalakrishnan, Moksh Matta, Mona Imanpoor Yourdshahy and Vivek Choudhary
Publication: Manufacturing & Service Operations Management
Volume 25, Issue 3, May-June 2023, Pages 846-861
Authors: Nhu Nguyen, Ivona Hideg, Yuval Engel, and Fr茅d茅ric Godart
Publication: Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Forthcoming; OnlineFirst 鈥� First published online June 8, 2023
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Authors:听Demetrios Vakratsas and Wei-Lin Wang
Publication: Journal of Marketing, Forthcoming,听first published online as EXPRESS: May 9, 2023
Ph.D. Student in Strategy & Organization Jack Sadek and听Associate Professor in Strategy & Organization Robert Nason鈥檚 co-authored paper titled 鈥淭oo Legit to Quit: Discursive Strategies in Cryptocurrency鈥檚 Categorical Emergence鈥� has been selected the winner of the 2023 Academy of Management (AOM) Organization & Management Theory (OMT) Division Best Paper Award (A Division of the Academy of Management).
Authors: Warut Khern-am-nuai, H. Ghasemkhani, D. Qiao and K.N. Kannan
Publication: Information Systems Research, Forthcoming
Authors: K. Zhu, Warut Khern-am-nuai and Y. Yu
Publication: Production and Operations Management, Forthcoming
Congratulations to听Sanjith Gopalakrishnan,听Assistant Professor in Operations Management, who has been awarded the听2023-2024 FRQSC New Academics Grant听(Soutien 脿 la recherche pour la rel猫ve professorale):
鈥淪yst猫mes de v茅lo-partage: R茅percussions 茅conomiques et environnementales des strat茅gies op茅rationnelles鈥�
(鈥淏ike-sharing systems: Economic and environmental implications of operational strategies鈥�)
