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Strategic utilization of software patents to counteract rival penetration in the IT industry

webfull — Wed, 13 Mar 2024 14:37:31 +0000

Authors: Sunghun Chung, Kunsoo Han, Animesh Animesh and Alain Pinsonneault

Publication: Journal of Strategic Information Systems
Volume 33, Issue 1, March 2024, 101820

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Published: 13 March 2024

McGill Desautels supports AMCIS 2023 and social impact research projects in Panama

webfull — Wed, 09 Aug 2023 20:13:49 +0000

AMCIS 2023, an AIS conference taking place from August 10 to 12 in Panama City and co-chaired by McGill Desautels’ IS Area Coordinator Professor Animesh Animesh, aims to highlight the impact of research projects in technology on local communities. One such project, led by McGill Desautels Faculty Lecturer Matt Goodman, is driven by social impact initiatives and aims to leave a positive mark on Panama's local economy.

Published: 9 August 2023

Delve: How Cities Can Make Ride-Hailing Services Environmentally Sustainable, with Animesh Animesh

webfull — Fri, 23 Sep 2022 15:20:44 +0000

What if using a ride-hailing app like Uber or Lyft could help decrease a city’s carbon emissions? Combined with public transit use and municipal policy changes, that’s beginning to happen. However, the bigger, less understood question is what motivates people to choose their cars over the bus, or Uber over walking to work. New data-driven research from Desautels Professor Animesh Animesh shows the environmental impact of ride-hailing and how comprehensive urban planning policies could make the skies a lot clearer.

Published: 23 September 2022

Professors Etzion, Animesh and Luederitz awarded SSHRC Partnership Development Grant

webfull — Thu, 22 Jul 2021 21:37:44 +0000

Dror Etzion, Animesh Animesh and Christopher Luederitz awarded SSHRC Partnership Development Grant

Published: 22 July 2021

Software Patents and Firm Value: A Real Options Perspective on the Role of Innovation Orientation and Environmental Uncertainty

webfull — Tue, 10 Nov 2020 15:57:25 +0000

Authors: S. Chung, Animesh Animesh, Kunsoo Han and Alain Pinsonneault

Publication: Information Systems Research, Volume 30, Issue 3, September 2019, Pages 1073-1097.

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Although software patents have been growing steadily since 1996, when the restrictions on the patentability of software were eliminated, their value and impacts on the firm’s profits remain unclear and ambiguous. Drawing on the real options theory and the literature on exploration and exploitation, we develop a novel theoretical framework to assess the value of software patents. Moreover, we examine the impact of contextual factors related to the nature of innovation underlying firms’ patent portfolios (exploitative versus explorative) and the environmental uncertainty (competitiveness and dynamism) on the value of software patents. Specifically, we examine the interaction effect of a firm’s software patent stock and its innovation orientation on firm value in markets exhibiting different levels of environmental uncertainty. Based on a large-panel data set consisting of 602 U.S. firms, our results indicate that a software patent portfolio having higher levels of explorative orientation is associated with a higher firm value (as measured by Tobin’s q) in environments exhibiting low dynamism and high competitiveness. By contrast, a software patent portfolio with higher levels of exploitative orientation is associated with a higher firm value in environments with high dynamism and low competitiveness. We discuss the implications for research and practice.

Published: 10 November 2020

Financial Returns to Firms’ Communication Actions on Firm-Initiated Social Media: Evidence from Facebook Business Pages

webfull — Tue, 10 Nov 2020 15:57:23 +0000

Authors: S. Chung, Animesh Animesh, Kunsoo Han and Alain Pinsonneault

Publication: Information Systems Research, Volume 31, Issue 1, March 2020, Pages 258-285.

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The primary goal of this study is to investigate the financial returns to firms’ communication actions on a firm-initiated social media platform by focusing on Facebook Business pages. To this end, we conceptualize and quantify two types of firms’ communication actions on social media: posts and responses to customer messages. Furthermore, we classify a firm’s responses to customer messages based on the valence of customer messages—positive versus negative—and examine the effects of volume as well as timeliness of the two types of a firm’s responses to customer messages on firm performance. Using a sample of 63 South Korean firms across industries over a three-year period (5,566 firm-week observations), we find that the volume and timeliness of a firm’s responses to negative customer messages, which are associated with an increase in customer satisfaction, have a significant positive impact on the firm’s market performance measured by abnormal returns and Tobin’s q. Interestingly, the results suggest that a firm’s posts and its responses to positive customer messages are not significantly associated with firm performance. Furthermore, we find that a firm’s posts and its responses to negative customer messages exhibit complementarities in contributing to firm performance. Our results are robust to various alternative specifications, econometric concerns, and Facebook’s policy changes, such as EdgeRank and Promoted Post. Our findings underscore the business value of firms’ actions on social media and provide unique and important implications for theory and practice regarding the appropriate ways to use social media for building and managing customer relationships.

Published: 10 November 2020

Congratulations to Faculty Award recipients

webfull — Fri, 10 Nov 2017 17:05:40 +0000

The Desautels Faculty of Management congratulates the following individuals who are the latest to be granted a Faculty Award for the period of September 1, 2017-August 31, 2020. The Faculty Awards recognise demonstrated research achievement and encourage the pursuance of future academic endeavors.

Published: 10 November 2017

Competitive impacts of IT innovation: An empirical analysis of software patents in the IT industry

webfull — Wed, 11 May 2016 16:16:54 +0000

Authors: Chung, S., Han, K., Animesh, A., Pinsonneault, A.

Publication:2015 International Conference on Information Systems: Exploring the Information Frontier, ICIS 2015

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Published: 11 May 2016

Can Pharrell, Bono and other Davos regulars really change the world?

webfull — Mon, 16 Feb 2015 21:51:25 +0000

The Globe’s roundup of research from business schools.
... Social media efforts prove good for a firm’s bottom line

Published: 16 February 2015

Professor Animesh appointed Associate Editor of Information Systems Research Journal

webfull — Wed, 10 Dec 2014 15:51:48 +0000

Professor Animesh has been appointed Associate Editor of Information Systems Research (ISR) Journal. ISR is a leading peer-reviewed, international journal focusing on theory, research, and intellectual development for information systems in organizations, institutions, the economy, and society. It is dedicated to furthering knowledge in the application of information technologies to human organizations and their management and, more broadly, to improving economic and social welfare. Read more about the journal here.

Published: 10 December 2014