Testing three-way complementarities: Performance pay, monitoring and information technology

ICIS 2009 Proceedings - Thirtieth International Conference on Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Aral, Sinan ^a   Brynjolfsson, Erik ^b   Wu, Lynn ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Complementarity; Enterprise systems; Erp; Incentive systems; Information technology; Principal agent model; Production function; Productivity

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARITY; ENTERPRISE SYSTEM; INCENTIVE SYSTEMS; PRINCIPAL AGENT MODELS; PRODUCTION FUNCTION;

ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

PRODUCTIVITY;

EID: 84870965139     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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