Over the past four decades, information technology (IT) has had a profound e!ect on the US economy, resulting in a shift from a manufacturing to an information economy. This e!ect, however, has also produced what may be labeled the paradox of IT productivity. While the percentage of a "rm's budget spent on IT continues to increase, there is increasing evidence that "rms fail to obtain the bene"...

The Knowability Paradox is a logical argument showing that if all truths are knowable in principle, then all truths are, in fact, known. Many strategies have been suggested in order to avoid the paradoxical conclusion. A family of solutions – called logical revision – has been proposed to solve the paradox, revising the logic underneath, with an intuitionistic revision included. In this paper, ...

Based on previous empirical research, there seems to be little relation between investment in information technology (IT) and ®nancial performance (often referred to as the `productivity paradox'). We hypothesize that this is due to the fact that many companies implement IT projects ineffectively. Like any other asset, IT must be utilized effectively to result in increased ®nancial performance....

Understanding the return on investments in information technology is the focus of a large and growing body of research. In this paper, we develop an overall framework for understanding the research on the relation between information technology investments and accounting or market measures of firm performance. Bruce Dehning Assistant Professor, The Argyros School of Business and Economics, Chap...

While organisations continue to invest heavily in IS/IT, research studies and practitioner surveys report contradictory findings on the effect of the expenditures on organisational productivity (Grover et al., 1998). Therefore, it is not surprising to see that the term “productivity paradox” is gaining increasing notoriety as several studies point toward fairly static productivity and rising IS...

This paper explores a paradox: negative correlations between indicators of mobility (such as VMT) and productivity (such as GDP), and positive correlations between mobility constraints (higher road use prices or traffic congestion) and productivity. These relationships contradict common assumptions that policies and projects that increase vehicle travel (roadway expansions and lower road user p...

The purpose of this paper is to describe the use of therapeutic paradox within the contextual-behavioral treatment called Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. Emphasis is on the difference between inherent and constructed paradox, expanding on previous work and emphasizing Acceptance and Commitment Therapy's relationship to Logotherapy.

In this paper, we consider a well-known epistemic game theoretical paradox, called the Brandenburger-Keisler Paradox, and provide various alternative models in which the paradoxical statement becomes satisfiable. For this task, first, we resort to various non-classical logical frameworks, and reformulate the paradoxical statement in them. We discuss the paradox in non-well-founded set theory an...

We examine the ways in which the research process differs in developed and developing areas by focusing on two questions: First, is collaboration associated with productivity? Second, is access to the Internet (specifically use of email), associated with reduced problems of collaboration? Recent analyses by Lee and Bozeman (2004) and Walsh and Mahoney (2003) suggest affirmative answers to these...