This study investigates the diffusion of two early Information technologies across 1348 institutions of higher education: (1) the adoption of Because It's Time Network (BITNET), a precursor to the Internet as we know it today and (2) the adoption of the Domain Name System (DNS) with its...

This study investigates the impact of information technology (IT) on productivity and collaboration patterns in academe. Our data combine information on the diffusion of two noteworthy innovations in IT--BITNET and the Domain Name System (DNS)--with career-history data on research-active life...

This study advances the prior literature concerning the impact of information technology on productivity in academe in two important ways. First, it utilizes a dataset that combines information on the diffusion of two noteworthy and early innovations in IT -- BITNET and the Domain Name System...

The hypothesis that local rates of property taxes levied on the value of industrial property may be shifted backward onto labor is formulated and tested with inferences drawn from a sample of labor market areas in Michigan. The analysis is carried out in the context of a two-factor production...

[fre] Cet article s'interroge sur les raisons pour lesquelles aux États-Unis la productivité scientifique est le plus souvent étudiée, au niveau des individus et de leur carrière, malgré le fait connu que la découverte est un processus coopératif. Notre hypothèse est que ceci provient...