Information, technology, and information worker productivity

Information Systems Research

Volumn 23, Issue 3 PART 2, 2012, Pages 849-867

  Aral, Sinan ^a   Brynjolfsson, Erik ^b   Van Alstyne, Marshall ^c,d  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamic panel data; Information worker; It; Multitasking; Productivity; Social networks; System GMM

Indexed keywords

MULTITASKING; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

DIRECT OBSERVATIONS; DYNAMIC PANEL DATA; ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS; HETEROGENEOUS KNOWLEDGE; INFORMATION SHARING; INFORMATION WORKERS; KNOWLEDGE NETWORKS; SYSTEM GMM;

PRODUCTIVITY;

EID: 84871566271     PISSN: 10477047     EISSN: 15265536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/isre.1110.0408     Document Type: Article

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