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A wide ranging editorial introduction describes the formation and evolution of the discipline from its origins at the Harvard Business School in the late s. Over the following century the editors show that the discipline and its practitioners often found themselves on the margins of academic discourses and their own institutions. There was a constant struggle to define the borders of the field and the central research questions that it sought to answer.
However the commitment to engage with the complexities of business and the disinclination to rely on models with simplistic assumptions about business behavior also enabled business history to be highly creative and at times to exercise a huge impact on management studies more generally especially Bank Email List strategy and the study of entrepreneurship. Publisher s link amazon Business History Elgar Walter Friedman dp ref sr s books ie UTF qid sr keywords Business History Jones and Friedman AUGUST MANAGEMENT SCIENCE The Distinct Effects of Information Technology and Organization pdf By Bloom Nicholas Luis Garicano Raffaella Sadun and John Van Reenen ABSTRACT—Empirical studies on information communication technologies ICT typically aggregate the information and communication components together. We show theoretically and empirically that this is problematic. Information and communication technologies have very different effects on the decisions taken at each level of an organization.
Better information access pushes decisions down as it allows for superior decentralized decision making without an undue cognitive burden on those lower in the hierarchy. Better communication pushes decisions up as it allows employees to rely on those above them in the hierarchy to make decisions. Using an original dataset of firms from the U.S. and seven European countries we study the impact of ICT on worker autonomy plant manager autonomy and span of control. Consistent with the theory we find that better information technologies Enterprise Resource Planning ERP for plant managers and CAD CAM for production workers are associated with more autonomy and a wider span of control.
However the commitment to engage with the complexities of business and the disinclination to rely on models with simplistic assumptions about business behavior also enabled business history to be highly creative and at times to exercise a huge impact on management studies more generally especially Bank Email List strategy and the study of entrepreneurship. Publisher s link amazon Business History Elgar Walter Friedman dp ref sr s books ie UTF qid sr keywords Business History Jones and Friedman AUGUST MANAGEMENT SCIENCE The Distinct Effects of Information Technology and Organization pdf By Bloom Nicholas Luis Garicano Raffaella Sadun and John Van Reenen ABSTRACT—Empirical studies on information communication technologies ICT typically aggregate the information and communication components together. We show theoretically and empirically that this is problematic. Information and communication technologies have very different effects on the decisions taken at each level of an organization.
Better information access pushes decisions down as it allows for superior decentralized decision making without an undue cognitive burden on those lower in the hierarchy. Better communication pushes decisions up as it allows employees to rely on those above them in the hierarchy to make decisions. Using an original dataset of firms from the U.S. and seven European countries we study the impact of ICT on worker autonomy plant manager autonomy and span of control. Consistent with the theory we find that better information technologies Enterprise Resource Planning ERP for plant managers and CAD CAM for production workers are associated with more autonomy and a wider span of control.