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Changes in information and communication technologieshave increased the offshorability of tasks.As routine tasks (Pol …
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We examine how information technology (IT) contributes to organizational change,labor demand, and improved productivity …
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This paper presents a framework to analyze the potential changes in transaction costs due to theintroduction of e-commerce on transactions between businesses. It then illustrates and applies thisframework using internal data from an Internet-based firm to measure process improvements,marketplace...
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Empirical studies on information communication technologies (ICT) typically aggregate the“information” and … and information,technologies that reduce information costs enable agents to acquire more knowledge and ‘empower …
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This paper analyzes how group lending programs use joint liability to utilize localinformation that borrowers have about each other’s projects through self-selection of groupmembers in the group formation stage. These schemes are shown to lead to positiveassortative matching in group...
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The technological developments in the areas of information and communicationtechnology have generated worldwide …
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Sometimes we believe that others receive harmful information.However, Marschak’s value of information framework … information’s harmfulnessfor oneself. The impact of decision makers’ capabilities to processinformation and of their expectations … maker as a point of reference, this paperintroduces a way for evaluating others’ information from a cross …
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In the context of decision making under risk, additional information can be seen as a resource for the improvement of … decision quality. The value of this improved quality is usually measured using Marschak´s concept of the value of information …. From this point of view, human information processing can easily be understood as a production process transforming the …
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The productivity of (human) information processing as an economicactivity is a question raising some interest. Using … information processing function has repeatedconvexities with ongoing processing activity. Even for smooth changesin the signals …
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Der Beitrag klassifiziert zunächst die für personales Verhalten bedeutsamen Beschränkungen der menschlichen Informationsverarbeitungskapazität in vier Katego-rien und charakterisiert die mengenmäßige Informationsüberlastung als diejenige Kategorie, bei der die mengenmäßige Kapazität...
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