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Securing Their Future? Entry and Survival in the Information Security Industry

Arora, Ashish - 2014

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...

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Understanding Media Markets in the Digital Age : Economics and Methodology

Danaher, Brett - 2013

Digitization raises a variety of important academic and managerial questions around firm strategies and public policies …-sharing. At the same time, digitization has created many new opportunities to empirically analyze these questions by leveraging …" questions related to digitization and the copyright industries, and discuss methodological approaches to leverage the new data …

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Business Method Patents, Innovation, and Policy

Hall, Bronwyn H. - 2021

The trickle of business method patents issued by the United States Patent Office became a flood after the State Street Bank decision in 1998. Many scholars, both legal and economic, have critiqued both the quality of these patents and the decision itself. This paper discusses the likely impact...

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Digital Innovation and the Distribution of Income

Guellec, Dominique - 2017

Income inequalities have increased in most OECD countries over the past decades; particularly the income share of the top 1%. In this paper we argue that the growing importance of digital innovation – new products and processes based on software code and data – has increased market rents,...

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Digital Rights Management and the Pricing of Digital Products

Park, Yooki; Scotchmer, Suzanne - 2021

As it becomes cheaper to copy and share digital content, vendors are turning to technical protections such as encryption. We argue that if protection is nevertheless imperfect, this transition will generally lower the prices of content relative to perfect legal enforcement. However, the effect...

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Demography, Unemployment, Automation, and Digitalization : Implications for the Creation of (Decent) Jobs, 2010–2030

Bloom, David E. - 2018

Globally, an estimated 734 million jobs will be required between 2010 and 2030 to accommodate recent and ongoing demographic shifts, account for plausible changes in labour force participation rates, and achieve target unemployment rates of at or below 4 percent for adults and at or below 8...

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Kill Zone

Kamepalli, Sai Krishna; Rajan, Raghuram G.; Zingales, Luigi - 2022

We study why acquisitions of entrant firms by an incumbent can deter innovation and entry in the digital platform industry, where there are strong network externalities and some customers face switching costs. A high probability of an acquisition induces some potential early adopters to wait for...

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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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The Impact of Information Technology on Scientists' Productivity, Quality and Collaboration Patterns

Ding, Waverly W. - 2012

This study advances the prior literature concerning the impact of information technology on productivity in academe in two important ways. First, it utilizes a dataset that combines information on the diffusion of two noteworthy and early innovations in IT -- BITNET and the Domain Name System...

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The Distinct Effects of Information Technology and Communication Technology on Firm Organization

Bloom, Nicholas - 2012

Empirical studies on information communication technologies (ICT) typically aggregate the "information" and "communication" components together. We show theoretically and empirically that these have very different effects on the empowerment of employees, and by extension on wage inequality. If...

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