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DIGITS Research Projects
The Smith School has received a $2 million grant from the National
Science Foundation to conduct research on Rapid Response Electronic Markets
for Time-Sensitive Goods.
To read more about this research project visit the ITR-NSF grant page.
Projects Sponsored by DIGITS
The Center for Digital Thought and Strategy is proud to present a
new study that analyzes the best practices among e-commerce companies.
The study--conducted by MBA students at the Robert H. Smith School of
Business, University of Maryland--examined the web sites of over 150
e-commerce companies and associated web site data. The research shows
that some web technologies adopted by e-commerce companies are a source
of competitive advantage while others are not. The study also finds
significant differences among technology diffusion and its potential as
a source of competitive advantage by industry. Perhaps most surprising
is that the study finds the impact of web technology on performance is
not universal among e-commerce companies. The impact of web technology
adoption is contextual, which includes very different impacts for newer
e-commerce entrants relative to established e-commerce companies.
Cynthia Stevens and Craig Carter, "Structural and Event Factors Affecting
Success in Electronic Reverse Auctions"
Galit Shmueli and Wolfgang Jank, "Statistical Analysis of Online Markets:
Exploring and Characterizing Lucrative Markets"
Joseph Bailey, "Information Asymmetries in Electronic Hierarchies"
Martin Dresner, Robert Windle, and Ming Zhou, "Effectiveness of Seller
Credibility Systems in Online Auction Markets"
Sanjay Gosain and Shiva Viswanathan, "The Net-Centric Auto-Dealer -
Creating Value with Information Orchestration"
S. Raghavan, "Restricted Preference Combinatorial Auctions"
Student Applied Research Projects
Joining the center's applied research projects initiative,
undergraduate business students Christopher Ajiri, Vincent Kan and
Megan Moy designed and implemented a web-based system that allows
authors of digital context to connect and contract with a copy
editor, "Virtual Administrative Task Management System"
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