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Information and Communications Technology in Chronic Disease Care : Why is Adoption So Slow and Is Slower Better?
Christensen, Michael C. - 2007
Unlike the widespread adoption of information and communications technology (ICT) in much of the economy, adoption of ICT in clinical care is limited. We examine how a number of not previously emphasized features of the health care and ICT markets interact and exacerbate each other to create...
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The Performance Effects of IT-Enabled Knowledge Management Practices
Cappelli, Peter - 2010
The extensive literature on knowledge management spans several fields, but there are remarkably few studies that address the basic question as to whether knowledge management practices improve organizational performance. I examine that question using a national probability sample of...
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Securing Their Future? Entry And Survival In The Information Security Industry
Arora, Ashish - 2007
In this paper we study how the existence of a functioning market for technology differentially conditions the entry strategy and survival of different types of entrants, and the role of scale, marketing ability and technical assets. Markets for technology facilitate entry of firms that lack...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465005
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Economic Experiments and Neutrality in Internet Access
Greenstein, Shane - 2007
Economic experiments yield lessons to firms that can be acquired only through market experience. Economic experiments cannot take place in a laboratory; scientists, engineers, or marketing executives cannot distill equivalent lessons from simply building a prototype or interviewing potential...
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Digital Resilience : How Work-From-Home Feasibility Affects Firm Performance
Bai, Jianqiu; Brynjolfsson, Erik; Jin, Wang; Steffen, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Digital technologies may make some tasks, jobs and firms more resilient to unanticipated shocks. We extract data from over 200 million U.S. job postings to construct an index for firms' resilience to the Covid-19 pandemic by assessing the work-from-home (WFH) feasibility of their labor demand....
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The IT Revolution and the Stock Market
Greenwood, Jeremy - 1999
A new technology or product is often developed by the single entrepreneur. Whether he reaches the public offering stage or is acquired by a listed firm it takes time for the innovator to add value to the stock market. Indeed first, reduce the market's value because some firms -- usually large or...
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Why Does Idiosyncratic Risk Increase with Market Risk?
Bartram, Söhnke M. - 2016
From 1963 through 2015, idiosyncratic risk (IR) is high when market risk (MR) is high. We show that the positive … relation has roots in fundamentals as higher market risk predicts greater idiosyncratic earnings volatility and as firm …
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Cross-Sectoral Variation in The Volatility of Plant-Level Idiosyncratic Shocks
Castro, Rui - 2011
idiosyncratic risk is higher in industries where the extent of creative destruction is likely to be greater …
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The Real Effects of Hedge Fund Activism : Productivity, Asset Allocation, and Labor Outcomes
Brav, Alon - 2011
This paper studies the long-term effect of hedge fund activism on the productivity of target firms using plant-level information from the U.S. Census Bureau. A typical target firm improves its production efficiency in the three years after an activist intervention, and the improvements are most...
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Uncertainty Business Cycles - Really?
Bachmann, Ruediger - 2011
Are fluctuations in firms' profitability risk a major cause of regular business cycles? We study this question within … such a model, surprise increases of risk lead to a wait-and-see policy for investment at the firm level and a decrease in … the size of firm-level risk fluctuations. We find that time-varying firm-level risk on its own is unlikely to be a major …
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