Abstract The Real Options approach to decision-making has been useful in capturing and
valuing the flexibility inherent in many operating decisions that decision makers are faced …

Research using empirical methods has established a curvilinear relationship between team
communication and performance. We conduct virtual experiments to examine team …

The aim of this paper is to analyze the performance of hedging strategies based on snow
and temperature options developed by ski operators to protect their profitability under …

The study of how people acquire and diffuse information among heterogeneous populations
has a rich history in the social sciences. However, few approaches have been developed to …

Purpose This research investigates the impacts of movie consumers' willingness, measured
by the number of people who want to watch a movie, on the relationship between event …

Contagion models are ubiquitous in epidemiology, social sciences, engineering, and
management. This paper formulates a prescriptive contagion analytics model where a …

Using the Bass new product diffusion model, the authors explore how media publicity and
word of mouth (WOM) about a to-be-released new movie drive moviegoing behavior in …

To ensure a movie's success, managers must understand why consumers buy tickets. Some
are induced by trailers or movie posters while others are triggered by their friends' …

In this paper histograms of user ratings for movies (1 \bigstar,..., 10 \bigstar) are analysed.
The evolving stabilised shapes of histograms follow the rule that all are either double-or …

Die vorliegende Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit der Frage, welche Eigenschaften Investitionen in
innovative Produkte besitzen und wie diese Investitionen untersucht und optimal gesteuert …