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The Impact of IT Capability on Employee Capability, Customer Value, Customer Satisfaction, and Business Performance
Chae, Ho-Chang - 2009
This study empirically examines the impact of IT capability on firms' performance and evaluates whether firms' IT capabilities play a role in improving employee capability, customer value, customer satisfaction, and ultimately business performance. The results were based on comparing the...
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Testing a model of the relationships among organizational performance, IT-business alignment and IT governance.
Sanchez Ortiz, Aurora - 2003
Information Technology (IT) is often viewed as a resource that is capable of enhancing organizational performance. However, it is difficult for organizations to measure the actual contribution of IT investments. Despite an abundance of literature, there is an insufficiency of generally...
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The Role of Information Technology in Alliances and Mergers.
Tafti, Ali R. - 2009
This dissertation examines how investments in information technology (IT) influence the value that firms derive from merging or collaborating with other firms. The dissertation is organized as follows. The first chapter, entitled Towards a Theoretical Framework of Information Technology in...
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Hiding in plain sight: Anonymity and privacy preserving mechanisms for data collection and collaboration
Kumar, Rajeev - 2009
This dissertation contributes to the society by providing mechanisms that can potentially increase the availability of valuable personal level information without sacrificing the privacy of citizens. We consider two settings by which personal level data can be made available to its users such as...
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Software innovations: The influence of quality, diversity and structure of network ties
Singh, Harpeet - 2010
There is high uncertainty associated with the outcomes of Information Technology (IT) investments and innovations. In such environments, IT actors (firm and individuals) are also unsure about their actions and preferences. The social relationships of these actors create substantial value for...
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Essays on Innovation: Identifying and Selecting New Technologies and Enhancements in Existing Products
Chen, Li - 2010
In a global economy with intense competition, companies face tremendous pressure to become more innovation-driven. With the development of information technologies, many companies are seeking to incorporate novel IT-based approaches in their business practices, such as evaluating emerging...
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Essays on information risk management in electronic markets
Kwon, Juhee - 2010
efficient information risk management is imperative for firms to support inside IT governance as well as the outside communities … for ensuring information risk management in two essays. First, information risk management is about not just technology … availability of information assets. Then, successful information risk management can be achieved only if top level executives give …
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Essays on information security from an economic perspective
Wang, Ta-Wei - 2009
Information security risks are becoming a critical issue to organizations given the significant impact of security related incidents. In this dissertation, we seek to further our understanding of how information security incidents and security practices affect information security risks. The...
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Behavioral decision theory and the negotiation process; effects of agenda and frame
Bontempo, Robert Nathaniel - 1990
Prospect Theory) by fitting utility functions to negotiation behavior observed in a laboratory setting. In addition to … strongly suggest that the Prospect Theory value function provides the best prediction of actual negotiation behavior. Results …
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Speculative bubbles and tests of the contagion mechanism in financial markets.
Porras Gonzalez, Eva Raquel. - Florida Atlantic University
This dissertation extends previous research on bubbles by investigating whether changes in the financial asset prices of the S&P500 reflect changes in fundamentals. We propose that if this is not the case the volatility is due to a bubble. Hence, this is the general hypothesis from which several...
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