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Helping Small Businesses become more Data-Driven : A Field Experiment on eBay
Bar-Gill, Sagit; Brynjolfsson, Erik; Hak, Nir - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
becoming increasingly important. The adoption of analytics and DDD has been slower in small-to-medium enterprises (SMEs … increases, without increases in average prices. Our results suggest that analytics and DDD help SMEs establish a competitive … supporting the adoption of analytics tools by SMEs. Furthermore, policies supporting small businesses' transition to the data era …
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Information and the Modern Corporation
Cortada, James W. - The MIT Press
While we have been preoccupied with the latest i-gadget from Apple and with Google's ongoing expansion, we may have missed something: the fundamental transformation of whole firms and industries into giant information-processing machines. Today, more than eighty percent of workers collect and...
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Gender Differences in Response to Competitive Organization? Differences Across Fields from a Product Development Platform Field Experiment
Boudreau, Kevin; Kaushik, Nilam - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
males and could be more inclined towards collaboration, instead. Were these findings to generalize to adults across the …
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Information Technology and People: Designing for the Future
Blackler, Frank (contributor); Oborne, David (contributor) - The MIT Press
, applicability, and acceptability, giving an overview of current research on information technology at work, at home, in education … systems; expert systems in the health field; health care; the disabled; computers in education; attitudes toward the new …
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The Atlas of Economic Complexity: Mapping Paths to Prosperity
Hausmann, Ricardo; Hidalgo, Cesar - The MIT Press
Why do some countries grow and others do not? The authors of The Atlas of Economic Complexity offer readers an explanation based on "Economic Complexity," a measure of a society’s productive knowledge. Prosperous societies are those that have the knowledge to make a larger variety of more...
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Intangible Marketing Capital
Bronnenberg, Bart J.; Dubé, Jean-Pierre H.; Syverson, Chad - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We present several empirical facts about trends in marketing investment in the US. We also present estimates of the private value of brands to firms and aggregate intangible brand capital stocks created by these investments. These investments include the creation and maintenance of a brand name...
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Intellectual Property Strategy
Palfrey, John - The MIT Press
Most managers leave intellectual property issues to the legal department, unaware that an organization’s intellectual property can help accomplish a range of management goals, from accessing new markets to improving existing products to generating new revenue streams. In this book,...
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Technology, Engineering, and Economics
Sporn, Philip - The MIT Press
From the foreword by Howard W. Johnson: "Philip Sporn's long and distinguished career has been at the interface of economics, engineering, and management. His accomplishments as an engineer, an engineering manager, and finally as an executive, have been marked by an innovative approach to...
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The Impact of Computers on Management
Myers, Charles A. (contributor) - The MIT Press
Contained herein is an array of exciting and knowledgeable papers that discuss, from assorted disciplinary angles, the "present and future impact of computers on management organization and the nature of managerial work." No two papers cover the same ground or reach identical conclusions, for...
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Organizational Responses to Product Cycles
Adhvaryu, Achyuta; Bassi, Vittorio; Nyshadham, Anant; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We use daily administrative data from a leading automobile manufacturer to study the organizational impacts of introducing new models to the auto assembly line. We first show that costly defects per vehicle spike when new models are introduced. As a response, the firm trains in problem-solving...
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