The productivity paradox of information technology has said to be one of the most difficult problem of computing field. We must try to improve productivity of both computing applications and software industry. It is therefore vital to identify and differentiate productive efforts from non-productive ones. In this paper we develop two frameworks for analysis of tasks in the development of inform...

An analysis of customer survey data using direct and reverse linear regression leads to inconsistent conclusions with respect to the effect of a group variable. This counterintuitive phenomenon, called the “regression paradox,” causes seemingly contradictory group effects when the predictor and regressand are interchanged. Using analytical developments as well as geometric arguments, we describ...

This paper presents a qualitative study on top management support of IT implementation in a hospital’s cloud computing IT project. Drawing upon stakeholder theory, top management support over the implementation was found to be dynamic, depending on eight higher order factors such as IT productivity paradox, perceived IT importance, flexible IT personnel, trust, project-enabled intangibles, assi...

This is a defense and extension of Stephen Yablo’s claim that self-reference is completely inessential to the liar paradox. An infinite sequence of sentences of the form “None of these subsequent sentences are true” generates the same instability in assigning truth values. I argue Yablo’s technique of substituting infinity for self-reference applies to all so-called “self-referential” paradoxes...

Abstract. The Peruvian upwelling system hosts a marine ecosystem with extremely high productivity. Observations show that the is only eastern boundary (EBUS) an out-of-phase relationship between seasonal surface chlorophyll concentrations and intensity. This “seasonal paradox” triggers following questions: (1) what are unique characteristics of system, compared other EBUSs, lead to relationship...

Because the individual patient is the center of our philosophy, osteopathic medicine has been called a paradox for attempting to maintain a distinct but equal profession beside its allopathic counterpart. Moreover, its distinctiveness has been challenged in light of this paradox.10 Although there are some dissenters, our profession is in danger of fully embracing EBM because of its normative pu...

While much empirical research has been done on the "productivity paradox" problem in the United States (for a recent survey, see Brynjolfsson 1993), Lhere has been little comparable research among newly industrializing economies (NIEs). The recent work of Krae,ner and Dedrick (1993) shows some correlation of IT investment-GDP ratio with GDP growth rate for a cross section of eleven Asia-Pacific...