Firm Profiling and Competition Assessment: A Heterogeneous Occupation Network–based Method

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dc.contributor.authorZhong, Hao
dc.contributor.authorLiu, Chuanren
dc.date.accessioned2022-12-27T19:09:57Z
dc.date.available2022-12-27T19:09:57Z
dc.date.issued2023-01-03
dc.description.abstractExtensive efforts have been made by both academics and practitioners to understand inter-firm competitive relationship owing to its profound impacts on multiple key business goals. However, it has never been an easy task to fully characterize firms and assess the competitive relationship among them mainly due to the challenge of information heterogeneity. In this regard, we propose a novel IT artifact for firm profiling and inter-firm competition assessment guided by Information System Design Theory (ISDT). We start by constructing a Heterogeneous Occupation Network (HON) using employees’ occupation details and education attainments. Then we adopt a Methpath2Vec-based heterogeneous network embedding model to learn firms’ latent profiles (embeddings). Using the firm embeddings as input, we train multiple supervised classifiers to assess the competitive relationship among the firms. Following the logic of design as a search process, we demonstrate the utility of our IT artifact with extensive experimental study and in-depth discussions. Our study also reveals that employees’ occupation and education information significantly contribute to the identification of the focal firm’s potential competitors.
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dc.identifier.doi10.24251/HICSS.2023.459
dc.identifier.isbn978-0-9981331-6-4
dc.identifier.other389d5b76-8519-4dcd-9b8e-b61088ac7156
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10125/103090
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofProceedings of the 56th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subjectEconomic and Societal Impacts of Technology, Data, and Algorithms
dc.subjectdesign science research
dc.subjectheterogeneous network embedding
dc.subjectinformation system design theory
dc.subjectinter-firm competition assessment
dc.subjectfirm profiling
dc.titleFirm Profiling and Competition Assessment: A Heterogeneous Occupation Network–based Method
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