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The Assimilation of Software Process Innovations: An Organizational Learning Perspective

Fichman, Robert G.; Kemerer, Chris F. - In: Management Science 43 (1997) 10, pp. 1345-1363

will defer adoption until knowledge barriers have been sufficiently lowered; however, this leaves open the question of …

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Information and Profitability Estimates: Modelling the Firm's Decision to Adopt a New Technology

Oliva, Terence A. - In: Management Science 37 (1991) 5, pp. 607-623

profitability estimates on the firm's adoption of a new technology or innovation. As such, the paper builds on the conceptual ideas …

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Information Cost and Innovation Adoption Policies

Jensen, Richard - In: Management Science 34 (1988) 2, pp. 230-239

A firm's manager must decide whether to adopt an innovation of uncertain profitability or to obtain some information and then decide to adopt or reject the innovation. Obtaining information can involve either waiting to receive some costless information or buying some additional information as...

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The Corporate Digital Divide: Determinants of Internet Adoption

Forman, Chris - In: Management Science 51 (2005) 4, pp. 641-654

Internet. I explore the sources of this variation by examining Internet adoption decisions in a very large sample of … client/server (C/S) networking applications have competing effects on the likelihood of Internet adoption. Such investments … can slow adoption by acting as a short-run substitute or by creating "switching costs." Geographic dispersion of employees …

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A Multimethod Approach to Identifying Norms and Normative Expectations Within a Corporate Hierarchy: Evidence from the Financial Services Industry

Burks, Stephen V.; Krupka, Erin L. - In: Management Science 58 (2012) 1, pp. 203-217

We use an incentive-compatible economic experiment and surveys in the field at a large financial services firm to identify the norms for on-the-job behavior among financial advisers and their leaders, and the normative expectations each group has of the other. We examine whistle-blowing on a...

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Product Development Decisions: A Review of the Literature

Krishnan, V.; Ulrich, Karl T. - In: Management Science 47 (2001) 1, pp. 1-21

This paper is a review of research in product development, which we define as the transformation of a market opportunity into a product available for sale. Our review is broad, encompassing work in the academic fields of marketing, operations management, and engineering design. The value of this...

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State of the Art---A Survey of Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes: Theory, Models, and Algorithms

Monahan, George E. - In: Management Science 28 (1982) 1, pp. 1-16

This paper surveys models and algorithms dealing with partially observable Markov decision processes. A partially observable Markov decision process (POMDP) is a generalization of a Markov decision process which permits uncertainty regarding the state of a Markov process and allows for state...

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World Wide Wait: A Study of Internet Scalability and Cache-Based Approaches to Alleviate It

Datta, Anindya; Dutta, Kaushik; Thomas, Helen; … - In: Management Science 49 (2003) 10, pp. 1425-1444

a review of the various caching strategies employed to mitigate these delays. We also survey the application of …

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The Effect of Information Technology-Enabled Flexibility on Formation and Market Value of Alliances

Tafti, Ali; Mithas, Sunil; Krishnan, M. S. - In: Management Science 59 (2013) 1, pp. 207-225

multiple industries. We find that adoption of open communication standards is associated with the formation of arm …

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A Transaction-Level Analysis of Spatial Arbitrage: The Role of Habit, Attention, and Electronic Trading

Overby, Eric; Clarke, Jonathan - In: Management Science 58 (2012) 2, pp. 394-412

Despite the central role of arbitrage in finance and economic theory, there is limited evidence of the factors that create and eliminate arbitrage opportunities, how often arbitrage occurs, and how profitable it is. We address these gaps via a transaction-level analysis of spatial arbitrage in...

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