Why Information Should Influence Productivity

Bulkley, Nathaniel; Alstyne, Marshall W. Van

doi:10.2139/ssrn.518242

Cited by 23 publications

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“…Two views can be distinguished to account for the value of information networks [27]: the orthodox economic approach and the evolutionary economic approach. The orthodox economic approach views information as an observable production input changing the uncertainty regarding the performance of an economic system.…”

Section: Orthodox and Evolutionary Economicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…A more advanced stream of literature, more in line with evolutionary economics, attempts to depict the value of particular subcomponents of IT [6,27,102,144]. For example, [144] used a multi-theoretic lens to argue that IT investments and capabilities influenced firm performance through three significant organizational capabilities (agility, digital-options and entrepreneurial-alert) and strategic processes (capabilitybuilding, entrepreneurial action and co-evolutionary adaptation).…”

Section: Literature On the Value Of Itmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The World Wide Web (WWW) is an important source of information, and therefore, search engines are an essential WWW facility. Based upon Bulkley and Van Alstyne [27], we define selectibility as the capability of a holon to scan for the unknown or generate courses of action that improve on known alternatives. Over 80% of WWW searches use search engines to locate information [128].…”

Section: Capabilitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The MIT framework proposed by Bulkley and Van Alstyne [27] presents a set of seventeen hypotheses in an effort to connect information (in general) with productivity (see Fig. 5).…”

Section: Comparison With the Mit Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Value of digital information networks: a holonic framework

2011

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The worldwide extraordinary level of interest in digital information networks' deployment among nations is due to the strong perception that they bring economic, social and environmental value. Our literature review on studies aiming at clarifying the value of information networks, led us to conclude that these studies take speculative, elusive or limited conclusions. We identify the requirements to capture the value of information networks and indicate a possible theoretical ground to account for it. Based upon this, we propose a framework operationalized with data from Eurostat. Furthermore, we identify the added-value of our framework with a precise and comprehensive comparison with two state of the art reference frameworks. We demonstrate that our framework provides significant conceptual addedvalue and, more fundamentally, allows for traditional measures of economic value (e.g. productivity and growth), as well as for other measures of value (e.g. social and environmental). Finally, we demonstrate with examples the wider application range of our framework in comparison with existing work.

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Section: Orthodox and Evolutionary Economicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Literature On the Value Of Itmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Capabilitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The MIT framework proposed by Bulkley and Van Alstyne [27] presents a set of seventeen hypotheses in an effort to connect information (in general) with productivity (see Fig. 5).…”

Section: Comparison With the Mit Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Value of digital information networks: a holonic framework

2011

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“…Selection is the process of scanning for the unknown or generating courses of action that improve on known alternatives (see [6]). For maximal productivity, the agent has to decide for a stopping point in an uncertain environment, while keeping computational requirements within limits.…”

Section: Selectivitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Model for Trans-sector Digital Interoperability

Madureira

Hartog

Silva

et al. 2010

Enterprise Interoperability IV

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Interoperability refers to the ability of two or more systems or components to exchange information and to use the information that has been exchanged. The importance of interoperability has grown together with the adoption of Digital Information Networks (DINs). DINs refer to information networks supported by telecommunication infrastructures and terminated by microprocessors. With an upcoming interest in services science and trans-sector business models, a stronger driver arises to further break the interoperability barriers across sectors. In this paper, we propose a novel model to address trans-sector digital interoperability, which by definition involves interoperability across different economic sectors connected by DINs. Particularly, we specify how a well known interoperability framework, the ATHENA framework, should be adapted for the economic sector plane. Based on data from the Eurostat survey on ICT usage and e-Commerce in enterprises and using a trans-sector scenario example, we illustrate how conclusions about trans-sector interoperability can be extracted and technological implications can be derived.

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