The idea of intelligent (embodied) agents for humor pioneered by Nijholt (2001, 2002) and Stock (1996; see also the fundamental Stock and Strapparava, 2002) has had an impressive start but, as with all really interesting intelligent agent projects, is far from complete implementation. Mindful of all the difficulties and obstacles on the way to full implementation, most but not all related to AI...

While the managerial rationale for adopting customer relationship management (CRM) has been fairly well articulated in the literature, research on strategy development is scant. Moreover, reports of “CRM failures” in the popular business press have done little to inspire confidence. To date, what little research has been conducted in the area of CRM strategy development has been confined to a s...

Based on the quasi-natural experiment of sewage charges standard reform, this paper adopts a staggered difference-in-difference model to empirically investigate effect environmental regulation firms’ export sophistication and mechanism effect, using matched data from Chinese Annual Survey Industrial Firms Custom Trade databases 2004 2013. The results show that (1) policy reform significantly pr...

We present a widely-used operations management model used in supply and distribution planning, that is typically embedded in a periodic business process that necessitates model modification and reuse. We consider three alternative spreadsheet implementations, a data-driven design, a canonical (textbook) design, and a novel (table-driven) technical design. We evaluate each regarding suitability ...

The implementation of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in business education appears to be influenced by a number of organizational issues, such as culture and technological sophistication. However, extant research has had very little to say about the antecedents that shape the adoption and diffusion of ICT across companies. In order to shed light on the phenomenon under investi...

In the last decade the Indian auto industry has shown increasing levels of technological sophistication and significant growth. The Indian auto industry consists of local firms with indigenous design and development capability, well established global brands and has marketing presence in Indian as well as other emerging markets. This paper tracks capability development in the Indian auto indust...

Although Business Intelligence& Analytics (BIA) systems are increasingly seen as a source of competitive advantage, limited research, to our knowledge, has examined the factors driving their organizational adoption. Drawing on TechnologyOrganization-Environment framework, we present a theoretical model of factors associated with the extent of organizational adoption of BIA technologies and test...

A distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack is carried out by simultaneously by compromised systems against targets causing system and service unavailability. Regardless of industry and size, companies worldwide are increasingly becoming target of DDOS attacks. The sophistication and intensity of these attacks are exponentially rising due to increase in number of compromised systems, unpatche...

In this study, two advanced computational text analysis tools were used to catalogue lexical and cohesive features of deceptive language and language accordance (i.e., agreement/disagreement on topic of conversation) in a corpus of dyadic conversations. The study specifically focused on how the variable of accordance conditions the process of deception in terms of lexical and cohesive features....

We propose a model in which investors cannot costlessly process information from asset prices. At the trading stage, investors are boundedly rational and their interpretation of prices injects noise into the price system, which serves as a source of endogenous noise trading. Compared to the standard rational expectations equilibrium, our setup features price momentum and yields higher return vo...