Brad Greenwood

Corey M Angst, Sarv Devaraj, Carrie Queenan, Brad Greenwood; (2011) “Performance effects related to the sequence of implementation of health information technologies.” Productions and Operations Management; 20(3) 319-333

Richard Baskerville
Board of Advisors Professor of Information Systems
Department of Computer Information Systems
Georgia State University

Friday, Nov 13, 2015

10:00am – 11:30am Speakman Hall 2 […]

Nigel Melville
Associate Professor of Technology and Operations
Ross School of Business
University of Michigan

Friday, Oct 30, 2015

10:00am – 11:30am Speakman Hall 200
Seminar Title: Information Sys […]

Charles Baden-Fuller
Centenary Professor of Strategy
Cass Business School
City University London

Friday, Sept 18, 2015

10:00am – 11:30am Speakman Hall 200
Seminar Title: Business Models: Ideal Types, […]

Sanjeev Dewan
Professor of Information Systems
Paul Merage School of Business
University of California, Irvine

Friday, April 24, 2015

10:00am – 11:30am Speakman Hall 200
Seminar Title: Popularity or […]

Yuqing Ren
Assistant Professor
Carlson School of Management
University of Minnesota

Friday, March 27, 2015

10:00am – 11:30am Speakman Hall 200
Seminar Title: Understanding Word-of-Mouth and Customer […]

Hüseyin Tanriverdi
Associate Professor
McCombs School of Business
University of Texas at Austin

Friday, March 20, 2015

10:00am – 11:30am Speakman Hall 200
Seminar Title: THE IMPACTS OF HIERARCHY VERSUS DIGITAL PLATFORM ON KNOWLEDGE CREATION AND APPROPRIATION: IMPLICATIONS FOR FIRMS AND EMPLOYEES

Abstract

This presentation will focus on a major challenge faced by knowledge-intensive firms and knowledge workers: how to create new knowledge and also appropriate profits from it. Firms and their knowledge workers often battle over who owns employee-created knowledge and who is entitled to profit from it even when employment contracts clearly state that the firm is the legal owner of all employee-created knowledge. The presentation will cover cumulative findings from a program of research on the causes, consequences, and potential mitigation mechanisms of knowledge ownership disputes between firms and their knowledge workers. The findings indicate that strategies used by hierarchical mode of governance foster either the knowledge creation objective of the firm or the knowledge appropriation objective, but not both simultaneously. They also indicate that the emerging, digitally-enabled platform mode of governance could address the knowledge creation / appropriation dilemma of firms better than the hierarchy. The presentation will also address this dilemma from the perspective of knowledge workers. It will present a recent study comparing knowledge creation and appropriation behaviors of two groups of mobile app develops: one group works as salaried employees of software firms while the other group works as independent software developers who develop mobile apps for digital platforms in return for a share of sales or ad revenues. Preliminary findings indicate that, relative to hierarchy, digital platform better motivates knowledge workers to create new knowledge. But digital platform also increases knowledge workers’ territoriality over knowledge, and increases legal disputes over knowledge ownership and profit sharing arrangements of the platform. Collectively, the findings imply that while the emerging digital platform mode of governance could address the knowledge creation / appropriation dilemma of firms better than the hierarchy, it creates more challenges for knowledge workers who see digital platforms as an alternative work form for making a living.

Rick Watson
J. Rex Fuqua Distinguished Chair for Internet Strategy
Department of Management Information Systems
University of Georgia

Friday, February 20, 2015

10:00am – 11:30am Speakman Hall 200
Seminar […]

Sam Ransbotham
Associate Professor
Carroll School of Management
Boston College

Friday, January 30, 2015

10:00am – 11:30am Speakman Hall 200
Seminar Title: An Empirical Analysis of Exploitation Attempts based on Vulnerabilities in Open Source Software

Abstract

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Min-Seok Pang
Assistant Professor, Management Information Systems
Temple University

Friday, Nov 21, 2014

10:00am – 11:30am Speakman Hall 200
Seminar Title: IT Is All About Politics – Information […]

Marius Niculescu
Assistant Professor, Department of Information Technology
Georgia Tech

Friday, November 14, 2014

10:00am – 11:30am Speakman Hall 200
Seminar Title: Cloud Implications on Software Network […]

Ram Chellappa
Associate Professor, Information Systems & Operations Management
Emory University

Friday, October 31, 2014

10:00am – 11:30am Speakman Hall 318
Seminar Title: On the Temporal Nature of Sales to Rank Relationships of Digital Music

Abstract 

A significant amount of work in IS, economics and marketing has used the relationship suggested by Chevalier and Goolsbee (2003) to impute demand from the relative sales-rank of a product in its category. However many industries, in particular the music industry are subject to temporal changes suggesting that the sales to rank relationship may not be fixed. Analyses of weekly album sales data not only reveals statistically different sales distribution week-to-week, but also significant differences in this relationship. To account for this difference, our research incorporates two temporal factors, namely size of the competition and market. We further plan to contrast physical and digital ranks and sales of albums to examine any distinct differences in consumption patterns.

Prior research suggests that the relationship between sales of a book and its category rank is a power-law distribution, more specifically a Pareto distribution. A number of papers in IS have used this relationship for the online book industry (specifically Amazon.com) to be of the form: R =α Sθ . While this relationship may very well hold for the book industry, the music industry is undergoing great changes with digitization. A number of elements are unique to this industry: First, weekly distribution of sales is quite different from each other and over the years increasingly fewer titles are accounting for a greater percentage of sales. Second, album sales largely exhibit a distinct exponential decay sales pattern beginning with their week of release and thirdly, there are significant seasonality issues wherein competition (as measured by number of new titles) is most severe in the 4th quarter. Our research is focused on specifically examining the temporal variation in the shape parameter θ .

Prasanna Tambe
Associate Professor of Information, Operations, and Management Sciences
New York University

Friday, October 24, 2014

10:00am – 11:30am Speakman Hall 200
Seminar Title: Learning and Wages in High-Tech Labor Markets

Abstract

Using a new data source on the reservation wages of IT workers, we argue that IT workers often accept lower pay in exchange for acquiring new technical skills on-the-job. This drives a wedge between workers’ pay and their perceived market value that is a) larger for IT workers than for other professionals, b) larger for mid-career IT workers, c) increasing in job tenure and d) larger for IT workers in high-tech regions. These effects are largest at employers that are investing in new technologies and for workers with the human capital that is most impacted by recent technological innovation, both of which are consistent with an explanation based on skill acquisition. These findings are also robust to a number of alternative explanations for why high-tech workers accept lower wages, including greater use of stock options, perks, and other non-wage compensation by high-tech employers, immigration-related mobility restrictions, and explanations based on labor market information asymmetries. The implications of this wedge for some notable features of the IT labor market—such as IT turnover rates and age-based sorting of IT workers across firms and IT industries—are discussed.

Nick Berente
Assistant Professor, Dept of Management Information Systems
University of Georgia

Friday, October 17, 2014

10:00am – 11:30am Speakman Hall 200
Seminar Title: Complex Coordination Routines and Open Source Software Development Processes

Abstract

Despite being geographically and temporally distributed, having high-turnover and consisting mainly of volunteer-developers, open source software (OSS) communities can often successfully assemble complex software products. Contemporary theorizing around OSS development suggests that isolated volunteers execute bounded and small development tasks on separate software modules while complex development problems are deferred until they become simple. Overall, according to this account, OSS development processes should be simple. However, the presence of complex OSS products suggests that OSS development processes somehow address complex development problems – problems do not turn from complex to simple out of thin air. This suggests that OSS development processes are likely to vary substantively in that they need to be concerned with both simple and complex tasks. In this paper we reconcile this paradox and empirically explore how OSS processes are carried out when facing relatively complex development problems. We conduct an exploratory mixed-method study of OSS processes and their compositions within a successful mid-size OSS project – Rubinius. We analyze how the project’s development tasks are coordinated based on varying types of tasks related to solving problems. We use computational sequence analysis techniques to describe the level of observed routine variety (i.e. variety of activities and their ordering) using digital trace data from Github. We detect four clusters of routines in Rubinius in terms of their degree of variety: 1) triaging problems, 2) transferring information, 3) technical inquiry, and 4) solving simple problems. Using qualitative inquiry, we observe that each routine cluster serves distinct information processing functions such as evaluating, shifting, understanding, and accommodating the complexity of development problems. From this exploratory analysis we theorize on the relationship between routine variety and efficiency of successful routines. We conclude with a process model of coordination routines capable of generating the requisite variety necessary to attack complex development problems.