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Early modern naturalists were faced with what has been termedthe ‘first bio-information crisis’. A key figure in … tointegrate new information into that order. A way out of thisdilemma was to keep information on particular subjects onseparate …
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After many years of large drops in the cost information and communicationtechnology, the evidence on its impact on … productivity growth in non-IT produc-ing sectors continues to be mixed.We propose a framework to study the impactof information and … organizations depend on the cost of communicating andacquiring information. We …nd that while advances in information technologythat …
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information about the quality ofthe provider's expertise, but facilitate good utilization of experts knowledge.In a …rm …, management holds soft information about individuals expertiseand thus improves on the matching of experts to problems; however …) and the quality of matching between problemsand problem solvers (the market provides less information about experts'quality).[...] …
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Changes in information and communication technologieshave increased the offshorability of tasks.As routine tasks (Pol …
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We examine how information technology (IT) contributes to organizational change,labor demand, and improved productivity …
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This paper presents a framework to analyze the potential changes in transaction costs due to theintroduction of e-commerce on transactions between businesses. It then illustrates and applies thisframework using internal data from an Internet-based firm to measure process improvements,marketplace...
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Empirical studies on information communication technologies (ICT) typically aggregate the“information” and … and information,technologies that reduce information costs enable agents to acquire more knowledge and ‘empower …
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This paper analyzes how group lending programs use joint liability to utilize localinformation that borrowers have about each other’s projects through self-selection of groupmembers in the group formation stage. These schemes are shown to lead to positiveassortative matching in group...
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The technological developments in the areas of information and communicationtechnology have generated worldwide …
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Sometimes we believe that others receive harmful information.However, Marschak’s value of information framework … information’s harmfulnessfor oneself. The impact of decision makers’ capabilities to processinformation and of their expectations … maker as a point of reference, this paperintroduces a way for evaluating others’ information from a cross …
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