Research

Until now, there has been little information about how firms respond to hedge fund challenges and demands for change. A new paper by Associate Professor of Accounting Yinghua Li and her co-authors shows company managers don’t sit idly by when their performance is attacked.

The Association for Information Systems honored the Department of Information Systems Club for excellence in three areas of chapter activities, while a faculty research paper is a runner-up for The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences eBusiness Best Paper Award.

The compound annual growth rate for big data is expected to be 26.4 percent through 2018, creating governance challenges for organizations.

A small percentage of online shoppers were willing to click “add to cart” when it came to buying clothes, according to a survey performed by Gallup researchers in 2015. As of 2014, a Nielson study found nearly half of online shoppers are willing to buy their wearables via the internet.

Given the salience of artificial intelligence for business and society, I have developed a one-day workshop for business leaders to get up to speed on these concepts. “The Future of Work and Digital Innovation” workshop will be held on Feb. 21, 2018, at ASU’s Tempe campus.

Research by Professor of Information Systems Sang-Pil Han provides a model for mobile application analytics that helps media buyers know how much and where to spend for optimal ad return on investment.

In the high-tech sector, the hunt for startup companies to purchase is intense. The challenge is how to find these new businesses. To help make finding these startups easier and give analysts a competitive edge, a W. P. Carey professor developed a data-mining tool.

New research by Assistant Professor of Information Systems Yili Hong and his co-authors found certain interventions influence an individual to contribute an online review.

Using data collected about bikes stolen on campus, students in the Master of Science in Business Analytics (MS-BA) program created a map for ASU Police showing where to patrol — on what days and what specific times — to prevent thefts.

On March 18, 2014, Sprint CEO Dan Hesse briefed members of the Economic Club of Phoenix on the advances in wireless technology that are launching the internet of things.