Most models of social contagion take peer exposure to be a corollary of adoption, yet in many settings, the visibility of one's adoption behavior happens through a separate decision process. In online systems, product designers can define how peer exposure mechanisms work: adoption behaviors can...

A tension exists between two well-established streams of literature on the performance of teams. One stream contends that teams with diverse backgrounds, social structures, knowledge, and experience function more effectively because they bring novel information to bear on problems that cannot be...

The Strength of Weak Ties and Brokerage Theory both rely on the argument that weak bridging ties deliver novel information to create "vision advantages" for actors in brokerage positions. But our conceptualization of novelty is itself fundamentally underdeveloped. We, therefore, develop a theory...

Although IT portfolio management has been a best practice for some time, many companies are still getting returns from IT investments that are below their potential. New studies show that a measureable premium can be gained by implementing a set of interlocking business practices and processes,...

While it is now well established that IT intensive firms are more productive, a critical question remains: Does IT cause productivity or are productive firms simply willing to spend more on IT? We address this question by examining the productivity and performance effects of enterprise systems...

Information technology is major investment for most enterprises and constitutes a portfolio of investments. Just like any other investment portfolio, the IT portfolio must be balanced to achieve alignment with business strategy and the desired combination of short and long term pay off. This...