Among the many recent changes in the organization of work in the United States, the decline in the average size of firms, as measured by employment, has been particularly well-documented. The primary goal of this paper is to assess the hypothesis that the rapid growth of information technology...

The Dutch flower auctions have played a critical role in the world cut-flower industry by providing efficient centers for price determination and transactions of flowers between buyers and sellers. These auctions owned by Dutch cut-flower grower cooperatives have traditionally used the âÂ...

Outsourcing of services is usually viewed as a way to increase or decrease capacity at themargin. By outsourcing a firm can vary its ability to provide goods or services such asinformation technology (IT) processing capacity or applications development, withouttaking on the long term commitment...

The Internet and the emerging global infostructure pose new opportunitiesand threats to businesses. This paper looks at the implications of theseemerging low cost communications infrastructures on business practice andstrategy. I examine how firms are using the Internet to improve...

This paper reports the results of an empirical study that examines how a manager'sexperience with a specific strategic information technology in their industryinfluences cognitive managerial tasks associated with new informationtechnologies. Specifically, we sought to assess the effects of both...

Advances in information technologies enable firms to expand electroniccommerce - the exchange of valuable information, goods and services acrosselectronic media. This paper looks at how businesses are adopting and usingtechnologies like the Internet and World Wide Web for electronic commerce.I...

The Dutch flower auctions have played a critical role in the world cut-flower industry by providing efficient centers for price determination and transactions of flowers between buyers and sellers. These auctions owned by Dutch cut-flower grower cooperatives have traditionally used the...

This paper specifies a generalizable model of exchange processes and developsa process-stakeholder analysis framework to evaluate alternative marketdesigns. This framework is applied to analyze a number of informationtechnology initiatives in the Dutch flower markets. The Dutch flowerauctions...

While many managers face the challenge of lower profits in increasingly competitive and commoditized industries, a few firms break out as market value leaders generating superior growthand shareholder returns. How do these firms break out of the commoditization trap? In this paper we propose...