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Wired for Innovation: How Information Technology is Reshaping the Economy
Brynjolfsson, Erik; Saunders, Adam - The MIT Press
Starting in 1995, productivity growth took off in the U.S. economy. In Wired for Innovation, Erik Brynjolfsson and Adam … product quality, timeliness, variety, convenience, and new products. Innovation continues through booms and busts; this book …
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Logistics Clusters: Delivering Value and Driving Growth
Sheffi, Yoss - The MIT Press
Why is Memphis home to hundreds of motor carrier terminals and distribution centers? Why does the tiny island-nation of Singapore handle a fifth of the world’s maritime containers and half the world’s annual supply of crude oil? Which jobs can replace lost manufacturing jobs in advanced...
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Transforming Global Information and Communication Markets: The Political Economy of Innovation
Cowhey, Peter F.; Aronson, Jonathan D. - The MIT Press
Innovation in information and communication technology (ICT) fuels the growth of the global economy. How ICT markets … innovation. For example, in the 1980s and the 1990s a revolution in communication policy (the introduction of sweeping … innovation and economic growth require new approaches in global governance that will reconcile diverse interests and enable …
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Combining technology and work organization: An analysis of complementarity between IT and decentralization across firms of different size
Rasel, Fabienne - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014
This paper examines whether information technology (IT) and decentralized work organization are complementary only for large firms or also for smaller firms. Empirical evidence, which suggests complementarity between IT and decentralization, is mainly based on large firms. Using data from a...
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Trade and technology: New evidence on the productivity sorting of firms
Bertschek, Irene; Hogrefe, Jan; Rasel, Fabienne - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013
Using a unique German firm-level data set, we provide empirical evidence for a productivity sorting along two dimensions: international activity and technology choice. We consider domestic and exporting firms and measure technology choice by firms' actual use of advanced information technology...
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Transforming Enterprise
Dutton, William H. (contributor); Kahin, Brian (contributor) - The MIT Press
information technology in creating and using knowledge—especially knowledge that leads to innovation; then, new organizational …
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Information and the Modern Corporation
Cortada, James W. - The MIT Press
While we have been preoccupied with the latest i-gadget from Apple and with Google's ongoing expansion, we may have missed something: the fundamental transformation of whole firms and industries into giant information-processing machines. Today, more than eighty percent of workers collect and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010535213
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Gurus and Oracles: The Marketing of Information
Sarvary, Miklos - The MIT Press
We live in an “Information Age” of overabundant data and lightning-fast transmission. Yet although information and knowledge represent key factors in most economic decisions, we often forget that data, information, and knowledge are products created and traded within the knowledge economy....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010535221
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Wired for Innovation: How Information Technology Is Reshaping the Economy
Brynjolfsson, Erik - The MIT Press
A wave of business innovation is driving the productivity resurgence in the U.S. economy. In Wired for Innovation, Erik …, timeliness, variety, convenience, and new products. Innovation continues through booms and busts. This book provides an essential …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010640597
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Wired for Innovation: How Information Technology Is Reshaping the Economy
Brynjolfsson, Erik - The MIT Press
A wave of business innovation is driving the productivity resurgence in the U.S. economy. In Wired for Innovation, Erik …, timeliness, variety, convenience, and new products. Innovation continues through booms and busts. This book provides an essential …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010640599