budget of many organisations in both the service and manufacturing sectors. As a result decision-makers are faced with difficult questions: How should IT investments be designed and managed to ensure alignment with corporate strategy? How should such investments be justified prospectively, and how can success be measured retrospectively? What more (than technology) is needed to realise the full...

Copyright: © 2017 INFORMS Abstract. Competing technologies in emerging industries create uncertainties that discourage supplier investments. Open technology can induce supplier investments, but may also lead to intensified future competition. In this paper, we study competing manufacturers’ open-technology strategies. We show that despite the risk of intensifying future competition, open techno...

The acknowledgment of the ongoing economic and financial crisis involving real estate, creates the need to formulate proposals and scenarios (in real estate) with the characteristics of socially responsible investments. These kind of investments aim towards “sustainable” development both environmentally (safeguarding the shortage of resources such as land, energy, and natural elements), and soc...

Health services and policy research (HSPR) represent a multidisciplinary field which integrates knowledge from health economics, health policy, health technology assessment, epidemiology, political science among other fields, to evaluate decisions in health service delivery. Health service decisions are informed by evidence at the clinical, organizational, and policy level, levels with distinct...

We explore conditions under which investments in Information Technology (IT) have a statistically significant impact on productivity. Rather than using a traditional analytical technique such as regression, we use two data mining techniques (i.e. regression trees and regression splines) for doing data analysis and integrated their results. Our analysis indicates the following: 1) IT investments...

This paper assesses the effects of household investments through child educating activities on child neurodevelopment between the ages of 3 and 24 months, and evaluates whether investments explain racial and socioeconomic developmental gaps in South America. Quantile regression is used to evaluate the heterogeneity in investment effects by unobserved developmental endowments. The study finds la...

An assumption in prior research is that debt is homogeneous and provides inappropriate governance for R&D investments. We argue that debt is heterogeneous: although transactional debt does indeed impose strict contractual constraints that provide inappropriate governance for R&D investments, relational debt has very different characteristics that provide more appropriate governance. Using a sam...

Contemporary research on business value has examined the impacts of IT investments at various levels of analysis. This research examines the impacts of IT investments by a partner. The impacts of partner’s investments are examined for the individual firms, as well as for the overall value co-created for the relationship. Further, we examine whether the value that is co-created is in fact approp...

If asset specificity renders the investing party dependent ex post, why would the ex ante willingness to make relationship-specific investments vary? We show how specific investments generate both positive and counter-negative cooperative incentives. We also observe the influences of trust and time horizon on these incentives, which are aggregated to derive the specific investments effect (SIE)...

For several years researchers & practitioners have been concerned about the impact of investments in Information & Communication Technologies (ICT) on productivity. The research framework of neoclassical growth accounting is widely used in this area of research on IT & Productivity. While several studies have explored the relationship between investments in ICT and metrics such as GDP, the link...