Contractibility and Asset Ownership: On-Board Computers and Governance in U.S. Trucking

By George P. Baker, Thomas N. Hubbard. 2004

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Three-Way Complementarities: Performance Pay, Human Resource Analytics, and Information Technology (2012, methodology): “We differ from these models by incorporating the utility of monitoring and workforce support (Baker and Hubbard 2004).”
The Flattening Firm and Product Market Competition: The Effect of Trade Liberalization on Corporate Hierarchies (2010, background): “A number of papers have explored the relationship between IT and organizational characteristics (eg., Bresnahan, Brynjolfsson and Hitt, 2002; Bartel, Ichniowski, and Shaw, 2007; Baker and Hubbard, 2004).”
Vertical integration and technology: theory and evidence (2004, background): “Nevertheless, it is useful to understand the implications of the theoretical framework both for backward and forward integration.”
Do Prices Determine Vertical Integration (2016, neutral): “…aluminum refineries and bauxite mines and Joskow (1987) on ownership arrangements in electricity generating plants, as well as the more recent studies by Baker and Hubbard (2003, 2004) on the trucking industry, Woodruff (2002) on Mexican footwear; or Forbes and Lederman (2009, 2011) on airlines.”