This thesis investigates how firms can measure and manage influence of IT-enabled communication media, particularly blogs. The thesis constitutes two essays. The essays can be read independently, but they are complementary to each other. The first essay measures the influence of employees'...

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This research focuses on the current shortage of young workers as a result of the baby bust cohort now entering the labor force. Previous studies have shown that the young workers of the baby boom cohort experienced lower relative earnings and higher unemployment because of their large cohort...

Commentaries have been made on the increasing influence of human resource management (HRM) in organizations. However, the role of the human resource (HR) department in this development has not been examined. This study investigates the sources of power of the HR department, and accounts for...

Traditional neoclassical microeconomic theory views the production function as a "black box" where homogenous inputs go in and output comes out. Differences in labor productivity between firms are mainly due to technological constraints facing the firm.