The business value of IT has been hugely studied in previous research. Although much effort has been paid to it, the so-called “IT productivity paradox” does not seem to be completely resolved so far. Some researchers argued that it is an issue of analysis level, while others tried to come up with new measures of firm performance. Another perspective, which is adopted in this paper, is to find ...

The so called productivity paradox associated with information technology re mains the focus of active research in information systems One explanation involves the dearth of useful measures to assess the value of IT investments A review of the predominant approaches to such measurement reveals a number of serious weaknesses and fundamental limitations The research described in this paper addres...

This chapter begins with a discussion of the business value of information technology and then goes on to discuss productivity paradox studies and the different types of benefits of information technology, including operational, tactical, and strategic. It also discusses when to intensify competition or leverage advantages in a timely manner.

The Dynamo and the Computer: An Historical Perspective on the Modern Productivity Paradox Author(s): Paul A. David Source: The American Economic Review, Vol. 80, No. 2, Papers and Proceedings of the Hundred and Second Annual Meeting of the American Economic Association (May, 1990), pp. 355-361 Published by: American Economic Association Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2006600 Accessed: ...

The so called "productivity paradox" associated with information technology remains the focus of active research in information systems. One explanation involves the dearth of useful measures to assess the value of IT investments. A review of the predominant approaches to such measurement reveals a number of serious weaknesses and fundamental limitations. The research described in this paper ad...

While the productivity paradox has now been officially pronounced dead, the argument and the evidence for this assertion are both at a macroeconomic level. What has been less closely examined is the microeconomic impact of recent developments in ICT on the productivity of office and knowledge workers. There is an assumption, readily seen in many advertisements for mobile technology, that multi-...

Can the slowdown in total factor productivity (TFP) that we have experienced since the mid-seventies be ascribed to the increasing importance of services, or do we instead observe an improvement of productivity in the service sectors by way of learning-by-doing or specialization? We feel that such questions are best answered within a general equilibrium analysis of the whole economy, i.e. a str...

BACKGROUND The return on investment for information technology (IT) has been the subject of much debate throughout the history of management information systems research. Often referred to as the productivity paradox, increased IT investments have not been consistently associated with increased productivity. Understanding individual IT factors that directly contribute to business value should p...

This article is concerned with the so-called Levinthal’s paradox. It will be argued that many have sought a “solution” to Levinthal’s paradox, where in fact, the “solution” already appeared in Levinthal’s original articles. Most of the subsequent suggested “solutions” were inadequate solutions to a non-paradox. It is shown that the discovery of strong hydrophilic forces not only dismisses the L...

Current methods of data mining, word sense disambiguation in the information retrieval, semantic relation, fuzzy sets theory, fuzzy description logic, fuzzy ontology and their implementation, omit the existence of paradox called here the paradox of the fuzzy disambiguation. The paradox lies in the fact that due to fuzzy data and the experts knowledge it can be obtained precise knowledge. In thi...