{"622399":{"#nid":"622399","#data":{"type":"event","title":"PhD Defense by Patricia Angle","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EArea:\u003C\/strong\u003E IT Management\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECommittee Members:\u003C\/strong\u003E Dr. Chris Forman (co-chair), Dr. Marco Ceccagnoli (co-chair), Dr. Sabyasachi Mitra, Dr. Eric Overby, Dr. Marius Niculescu\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETitle:\u003C\/strong\u003E IT-Enabled Business Practices: Empirical Investigations of Productivity and Innovation\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EEssay 1: \u003Cstrong\u003EDoes IT Level the Playing Field for Small Establishments? Evidence from Manufacturing\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWe examine whether information technology investments benefit from economies of scale. Using U.S. Census non-public microdata, we examine the productivity benefits of IT investments for over 11,000 manufacturing plants over a nine year period. We find evidence that large plants exhibit differential productivity benefits from IT investments relative to smaller plants. These differences are robust to a range of alternative estimators and cannot be explained by cross-sectional variance in firm size, plant and firm age, and position in the supply chain. The results have important implications for small plants that firm-level studies have been unable to reveal.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EEssay 2: \u003Cstrong\u003EThe Interplay of Information Technology and R\u0026amp;D and its Implications for Innovation\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThroughout the innovative process, the management of information flows means ensuring both confidentiality from competitors and availability to collaborators. Heavy investment in R\u0026amp;D signals the need for strong knowledge management capabilities, which can be helped or hindered by investment in information technologies. Thus far, the complementarity or substitutability of IT and R\u0026amp;D is unclear. This study investigates this relationship across industries using Harte-Hanks and Compustat data over the time period 2004-2008. We find that, on average, IT and R\u0026amp;D are substitutes. This result is robust across a number of empirical settings.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"IT-Enabled Business Practices: Empirical Investigations of Productivity and Innovation"}],"uid":"27707","created_gmt":"2019-06-10 18:11:33","changed_gmt":"2019-06-10 18:11:33","author":"Tatianna Richardson","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2019-06-21T12:30:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2019-06-21T14:30:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2019-06-21T14:30:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2019-06-21 16:30:00","gmt_time_end":"2019-06-21 18:30:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2019-06-21 18:30:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"221981","name":"Graduate Studies"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"100811","name":"Phd Defense"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1788","name":"Other\/Miscellaneous"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"78771","name":"Public"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"},{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}