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This dissertation seeks to understand firm strategies and implications for sustainability and success in the context of IT-enabled service innovations. The first essay examines how business models evolve to influence the ...

This dissertation discusses two research problems. First topic is strategic information management in supply chain, and second topic is analytical modeling approach in productivity dilemma. The first two chapters of ...

In this dissertation, I have three separate essays in the context of Business-to Business (B2B) auctions; in each I introduce a complex problem regarding the impact of information flows on auction's performance which has ...

In this dissertation, we propose the study of a family of network design problems that arise in a wide range of practical settings ranging from telecommunications to data management. We investigate the use of heuristic ...

Dynamic pricing problems have received considerable attention in the operations management literature in the last two decades. Most of the work has focused on structural results and managerial insights using stylized models ...

Prior research shows that electronic word of mouth (eWOM) wields considerable influence over consumer behavior. However, as the volume and variety of eWOM grows, firms are faced with challenges in analyzing and responding ...

In this dissertation, we apply mathematical programming techniques (i.e., integer programming and polyhedral combinatorics) to develop exact approaches for influence maximization on social networks. We study four combinatorial ...

In this dissertation, we apply large-scale optimization techniques including column generation and heuristic approaches to problems in the domains of online advertising and mobile facility location. First, we study the ...

The widespread use of the Internet, social networking, mobile technology and big data has improved people's ability to obtain and use information to an unprecedented level. Influencing consumer behavior and changing concepts ...

With the rapidly increasing availability of business-related big data in recent years as well as the advancements in statistical and machine learning techniques, business analytics (BA) is becoming an essential practice ...