A review of the practical relevance of IS strategy scholarly research

While studies suggest that IS strategy is an important topic for practitioners, in-depth explorations of the potential practical relevance of this research area are lacking. In this paper, we develop a multidimensional framework of potential practical relevance and use it to conduct a multimethod descriptive review of 109 IS strategy papers published over the past 10 years in top IS journals. The framework contributes to the IS literature by synthesizing various characteristics that make a research project conducive to being practically relevant. The review highlights how IS strategy research has offered the potential for practical relevance in the past and recommends opportunities to increase this, especially in the digitalization era

Buckling mode as an imperfection in arch structures

An Equivalent Unique Global and Local Imperfection (sometimes referred as an ‘EUGLI’ imperfection) is an equivalent imperfection that has a shape affine to the form of a critical elastic buckling mode. This design method, in its generalized form designated for the frame structures, is included in the EN 1993-1-1 cl. 5.3.2 (11) since 2002. To this day however, it is neither known in the design practice, nor it is incorporated in the common structural analysis software. This design method is suited for verification of members (beam-columns) with nonuniform cross-section and/or non-uniform axial compressive force. It can be used for general 2D and 3D frame structures. A good example for this complicated structure is an arch bridge. A main problem is that the amplitudes for these imperfections are not experimentally established. Yet a procedure proposed by the same author (as the author of the ‘EUGLI’ imperfection) can be used to obtain a design value of amplitude, which is derived from the substitute member method. Purpose of this article is to show the application of proposed method on numerical example and its comparison with two other design methods. Verification of the in-plane buckling of an arch will be carried out

Selling Strategic Information in Digital Competitive Markets

This paper investigates the strategies of a data broker in selling information to one or to two competing firms that can price-discriminate consumers. The data broker can strategically choose any segment of the consumer demand (information structure) to sell to firms that implement third-degree price-discrimination. We show that the equilibrium profits of the data broker are maximized when (1) information identifies the consumers with the highest willingness to pay; (2) consumers with a low willingness to pay remain unidentified; (3) the data broker sells two symmetrical information structures. The data broker therefore strategically sells partial information on consumers in order to soften competition between firms. Extending the baseline model, we prove that these results hold under first-degree price-discrimination