Harpreet Singh

University of Texas at Dallas | UTD · Naveen Jindal School of Management

In Online Movie Rental Systems, customer "desire to rent" can often be observed before the actual consumption occurs. Desire represents uncensored (or true) demand information. Hence, the impact of inventory decisions (numbers of physical copies of different movies) can be accurately traced to the creation of desire (via Word-of-Mouth), and then to...

In this article, the effect of IT knowledge on the overconfidence of venture capitalists (VCs) in their IT investments is examined. Our findings show that the effect of IT knowledge on overconfidence is nonlinear. VCs with moderate levels of IT knowledge are least overconfident. At the same time, VCs with moderate levels of IT knowledge are most re...

Research Summary: Innovation requires inventors to have both “new knowledge” and the ability to combine and configure knowledge (i.e. “combinatory knowledge) and such knowledge may flow through networks. We argue that both combinatory knowledge and new knowledge are accessed through collaboration networks, but that inventors’ abilities to access su...

Although much research emphasizes the importance of venture technical competence for venture success and, therefore, the importance of venture technical competence in venture capitalist (VC) investment decisions, we know little about why some VCs may be better than others at assessing the technical competence of ventures. We gathered unique and pro...

For organizations to achieve the benefits of new information technology (IT) systems, their users must adopt and then actually use these new systems. Recent models help to articulate the potentially different explanations for why some users will adopt and then continue using new technologies, but these models have not explicitly incorporated IT kno...

In this paper, we study the differential influence of online user-generated content (UGC), specifically blogs, across the multiple stages of decision making of venture capitalists: screening stage, choice stage, and contract stage. We conjecture that, first, blogs are influential at the screening stage; second, after the screening stage, blogs are...

External financing is critical to ventures that do not have a revenue source but need to recruit employees, develop products, pay suppliers, and market their products/services. There is an increasing belief among entrepreneurs that electronic word-of-mouth (eWOM), specifically blog coverage, can aid in achieving venture capital financing. Conflicti...

An information resource network (IRN) is a time-ordered and potentially interrelated set of information elements. Examples include papers within a research domain, blog postings dealing with a certain topic, and information records within a company. We present a structured analysis to identify influential building blocks and linkages in a general I...

Word-of-Mouth (WOM) has been recognized as one of the most influential resources of information transmission especially for the experience goods. It has been shown that a higher volume of WOM has a positive effect on increasing the demand for a certain product. In addition to the WOM-sales interdependence, there is also dependence between sales and...

The growth in electronic publishing, advancement in e-book reader technology and the advent of the internet has led to the emergence of e-books and a rental market for e-books. When the product is available in both digital and physical form, consumers’ willingness to buy is influenced by their preference for the form of the product (physical vs. di...