Similar Search Results

Invisible Engines: How Software Platforms Drive Innovation and Transform Industries

Evans, David S.; Hagiu, Andrei; Schmalensee, Richard - The MIT Press

Software platforms are the invisible engines that have created, touched, or transformed nearly every major industry for the past quarter century. They power everything from mobile phones and automobile navigation systems to search engines and web portals. They have been the source of enormous...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004973283

Communications Under the Seas: The Evolving Cable Network and Its Implications

Finn, Bernard (contributor); Yang, Daqing (contributor) - The MIT Press

By the end of the twentieth century, fiber-optic technology had made possible a worldwide communications system of … breathtaking speed and capacity. This amazing network is the latest evolution of communications technologies that began with … undersea telegraph cables in the 1850s and continued with coaxial telephone cables a hundred years later. Communications under …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008587786

Real Options and Investment under Uncertainty: Classical Readings and Recent Contributions

Schwartz, Eduardo S. (contributor); … - The MIT Press

The study of investment under uncertainty was stagnant for several decades, until recent developments in real options provided the tools to revitalize the field. The techniques and insights derived from option pricing can now be used to quantify the elusive elements of managerial operating...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005237329

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 evolve depends on politics and policy, and since the 1950s periodic overhauls of ICT policy have transformed competition and innovation. For example, in the 1980s and the 1990s a...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010905542

Transforming Enterprise

Dutton, William H. (contributor); Kahin, Brian (contributor) - The MIT Press

Innovators across all sectors of society are using information and communication technology to reshape economic and social activity. Even after the boom—and despite the bust—the process of structural change continues across organizational boundaries. Transforming Enterprise considers the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005237343

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

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

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 Brynjolfsson and Adam Saunders describe how information technology directly or indirectly created this productivity explosion, reversing decades of slow growth. They argue that...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010640597

Wired for Innovation: How Information Technology Is Reshaping the Economy

Brynjolfsson, Erik - The MIT Press

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010640599

The Comingled Code: Open Source and Economic Development

Lerner, Josh - The MIT Press

Discussions of the economic impact of open source software often generate more heat than light. Advocates passionately assert the benefits of open source while critics decry its effects. Missing from the debate is rigorous economic analysis and systematic economic evidence of the impact of open...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010640613