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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 … Saunders describe how information technology directly or indirectly created the lion's share of this productivity surge …, reversing decades of slow growth. They argue that the turnaround in productivity reflects the delayed effects of the massive …

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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...

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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....

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Understanding the Digital Economy: Data, Tools, and Research

Brynjolfsson, Erik (contributor); Kahin, Brian (contributor) - The MIT Press

The rapid growth of electronic commerce, along with changes in information, computing, and communications, is having a profound effect on the United States economy. President Clinton recently directed the National Economic Council, in consultation with executive branch agencies, to analyze the...

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Information Technology and People: Designing for the Future

Blackler, Frank (contributor); Oborne, David (contributor) - The MIT Press

Today's rapid growth in information technology has occurred without a full understanding of the human consequences of its use--on individuals, on organizations, and on society as a whole. As a result, initial expectations have frequently not been met, and a backlash has developed. Clearly a more...

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Social Capital and Information Technology

Huysman, Marleen (contributor); Wulf, Volker (contributor) - The MIT Press

The concept of social capital, or the value that can be derived from social ties created by goodwill, mutual support, shared language, common beliefs, and a sense of mutual obligation, has been applied to a number of fields, from sociology to management. It is only lately, however, that...

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Beyond the Desktop Metaphor: Designing Integrated Digital Work Environments

Kaptelinin, Victor (contributor); … - The MIT Press

The computer's metaphorical desktop, with its onscreen windows and hierarchy of folders, is the only digital work environment most users and designers have ever known. Yet empirical studies show that the traditional desktop design does not provide sufficient support for today's real-life tasks...

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Productivity, Inequality, and the Digital Economy: A Transatlantic Perspective

Greenan, Nathalie (contributor); … - The MIT Press

The widespread diffusion of information and communication technologies (ICT) has had controversial, seemingly paradoxical consequences. ICT are viewed as driving growth and employment in the United States, while contributing to European unemployment and the so-called Eurosclerosis. At the same...

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In the Bubble: Designing in a Complex World

Thackara, John - The MIT Press

We're filling up the world with technology and devices, but we've lost sight of an important question: What is this stuff for? What value does it add to our lives? So asks author John Thackara in his new book, In the Bubble: Designing for a Complex World. These are tough questions for the...

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Innovation and Incentives

Scotchmer, Suzanne - The MIT Press

Interest in intellectual property and other institutions that promote innovation exploded during the 1990s. Innovation and Incentives provides a clear and wide-ranging introduction to the economics of innovation, suitable for teaching at both the advanced undergraduate and graduate levels. It...

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