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作者：Devaraj, S; Kohli, R
作者单位：University of Notre Dame
摘要：The relationship between investment in information technology (IT) and its effect on organizational performance continues to interest academics and practitioners. In many cases, due to the nature of the research design employed, this stream of research has been unable to identify the impact of individual technologies on organizational performance. This study posits that the driver of IT impact is not the investment in the technology, but the actual usage of the technology. This proposition is ...
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作者：Möhring, RH; Schulz, AS; Stork, F; Uetz, M
作者单位：Technical University of Berlin; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); Hasselt University; Maastricht University
摘要：In project scheduling, a set of precedence-constrained jobs has to be scheduled so as to minimize a given objective. In resource-constrained project scheduling, the jobs additionally compete for scarce resources. Due to its universality, the latter problem has a variety of applications in manufacturing, production planning, project management, and elsewhere. It is one of the most intractable problems in operations research, and has therefore become a popular playground for the latest optimizat...
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作者：Rivkin, JW; Siggelkow, N
作者单位：Harvard University; University of Pennsylvania
摘要：We examine how and why elements of organizational design depend on one another. An agent-based simulation allows us to model three design elements and two contextual variables that have rarely been analyzed jointly: a vertical hierarchy that reviews proposals from subordinates, an incentive system that rewards subordinates for departmental or firm-wide performance, the decomposition of an organization's many decisions into departments, the underlying pattern of interactions among decisions, an...
