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Dinner At Your Doorstep: Service Innovation Via The Gig Economy On Food Delivery Platforms, Geng Sun, Yeongin Kim, Yinliang (Ricky) Tan, Geoffrey G. Parker Oct 2023

Dinner At Your Doorstep: Service Innovation Via The Gig Economy On Food Delivery Platforms, Geng Sun, Yeongin Kim, Yinliang (Ricky) Tan, Geoffrey G. Parker

Information Systems Faculty Publications and Presentations

Boosted by greater demand for convenience and then turbocharged by the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic, online food delivery (OFD) has witnessed rapid growth over the past several years. Despite such growth, however, it is still unclear how incentives and payoffs of various parties are affected by the three-sidedness of the OFD market, which involves consumers, restaurants, and gig drivers—beyond the traditional two-sided setting. In this paper, we study the OFD platforms’ optimal choices in a competitive setting where the platforms compete on both prices and service quality. Our analysis shows that conventional insights from two-sided platforms do not completely carry …


Digital Transformation Through Internet Of Things Services, Tayfun Keskin, Frederick J. Riggins Jan 2019

Digital Transformation Through Internet Of Things Services, Tayfun Keskin, Frederick J. Riggins

Information Systems Faculty Publications and Presentations

Internet of Things (IoT) have been disrupting industries through shifting novel services, and business models. Organizations should also redesign their business service models to navigate this disruption. A holistic understanding of digital transformation through IoT requires the cooperation of multiple disciplines ranging from engineering to economics. This paper utilizes a conceptual model to develop an analytical framework to investigate a number of pricing strategies enabled by different business models. Our findings demonstrate that the Internet of Things phenomenon has the potential to disrupt the way we do business by connecting markets and enabling new business models.