Does Information Technology Lead to Smaller Firms

By Erik Brynjolfsson, Thomas W. Malone, Vijay Gurbaxani, A. Kambil. 2011

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Subfields: Accounting, Economics and Econometrics, Strategy and Management

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Citations in the corpus

• The Employment Relationship and Inequality: How and Why Changes in Employment Practices are Reshaping Rewards in Organizations (2013, background): “For example, some scholars have suggested that technological changes made it easier to coordinate across market interfaces, leading to a decline in the use of organizations to govern such activities as employment (Brynjolfsson et al., 1994).”
• Validity Issues in the Use of Social Network Analysis with Digital Trace Data (2011, unknown): “Recommendations If the links are directed, consider working directly with network paths, rather than collapsing to a regular network (Brynjolfsson et al., 1994).”
• The long-term effect of digital innovation on bank performance: An empirical study of SWIFT adoption in financial services (2017, unknown): “Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are frequently referred to as the ‘backbone’ of the economy because they play an important role in job creation (Brynjolfsson et al., 1994), technology investment, and GDP growth (Kuan and Chau, 2001) yet research about the effects of ICT adoption on their economi”
• Advanced Technologies Adoption and Use by U.S. Firms: Evidence from the Annual Business Survey (2020, unknown): “…lower the costs of collecting information, thereby expanding the scope of firm information collection and processing, work on early waves of technology adoption has suggested a countervailing mechanism whereby the firm boundary itself contracts (Brynjolfsson et al. 1994; Forman and McElheran 2019).”