Information Technology and Organizations

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• Mitchell, Tom and Erik Brynjolfsson. "Track How Technology Is Changing Work." Nature, 544(7650): 290-291. April 20, 2017. Reproduced in Scientific American as "We Must Track How Technology Is Changing Work."

• Aral, Sinan, Yannis Bakos, and Erik Brynjolfsson. Information Technology, Repeated Contracts, and the Number of Suppliers. Management Science. Articles in Advance, 15 Mar 2017. ISSN 0025-1909 (print), ISSN 1526-5501 (online).

• Brynjolfsson, Erik and Tom M. Mitchell (Co-Chairs). National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2017. Information Technology and the U.S. Workforce: Where Are We and Where Do We Go from Here? Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi:10.17226/24649

• Bloom, Nicholas, Erik Brynjolfsson, Lucia Foster, Ron S. Jarmin, Megha Patnaik, Itay Saporta-Eksten, and John Van Reenen. "What Drives Differences in Management?" CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP11995; NBER Working Paper No. w23300; IZA Discussion Paper No. 10724. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2961756 (April 2017).

• Brynjolfsson, Erik. (2017) "Technology is changing the way we live, learn and work. How can leaders make sure we all prosper?" World Economic Forum Annual Meeting, Jan. 4, 2017. (Blog post)

• Brynjolfsson, Erik, Tomer Geva, and Shachar Reichman. (2016). "Crowd-Squared: Amplifying the Predictive Power of Search Trend Data" MIS Quarterly, 40(4): 941-961.

• Brynjolfsson, Erik, McAfee, Andrew, and Spence, Michael, "New World Order: Labor, Capital, and Ideas in the Power Law Economy" Foreign Affairs, July/August 2014.

• Bloom, Nicholas, Brynjolfsson, Erik, Foster, Lucia, Patnaik, Megha, and John Van Reenen, "IT and Management in America" (March 2014).

• Brynjolfsson, Erik and Andrew McAfee. The Second Machine Age: Work Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies. New York, New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2014.

• Brynjolfsson, Erik and Milgrom, Paul, "Complementarity in Organizations" in The Handbook for Organization Economics, eds. Robert Gibbons and John Roberts (Princeton University Press, 2013).

• Nicholas Bloom, Erik Brynjolfsson, Lucia Foster, Ron Jarmin, Itay Saporta-Eksten, and John Van Reenen, "Management in America" (January 2013).

• Sinan Aral, Erik Brynjolfsson, and Lynn Wu , "Three-Way Complementarities: Performance Pay, Human Resource Analytics, and Information Technology"Management Science, (March, 2012).

• Brynjolfsson, Erik and McAfee, Andrew, "Thriving in the Automated Economy" The Futurist, March-April 2012.

• Brynjolfsson, Erik and McAfee, Andrew, "Winning the Race With Ever-Smarter Machines" MIT Sloan Management Review, Winter, 2012.

• Brynjolfsson, Erik, and McAfee, Andrew "Why Workers Are Losing the War Against Machines" The Atlantic. October, 2011.

• Brynjolfsson, Erik, and McAfee, Andrew "Why the Massive Wealth of the 1% Could Ruin the Economy" The Atlantic. October, 2011.

• Brynjolfsson, Erik, and McAfee, Andrew "Where Human Workers Can Still Beat Robots (at Least for Now)" The Atlantic. October, 2011.

• Brynjolfsson, Erik, Hitt, Lorin and Kim, Heekyung "Strength in Numbers: How Does Data-Driven Decisionmaking Affect Firm Performance " (April, 2011)
  
  
• Brynjolfsson, Erik and Schrage, Michael "The New, Faster Face of Innovation: Thanks to Technology, Change Has Never Been So Easy-or So Cheap" Wall Street Journal and Sloan Management Review (August, 2009)
  
  
• McAfee, Andrew  and  Brynjolfsson, Erik "Investing in the IT That Makes a Competitive Difference" Harvard Business Review, (July-August, 2008)

• McAfee, Andrew and Brynjolfsson, Erik "Dog Eat Dog:  Industries that Buy a lot of Technology are Becoming as Cutthroat as Those that Produce Technology"  Wall Street Journal and Sloan Management Review, (April, 2007)

• Brynjolfsson, Erik, Hitt, Lorin M. and Shinkyu Yang (2002) "Intangible Assets: Computers and Organizational Capital," Brookings Papers on Economic Activity: Macroeconomics (1): 137-199. [Click here for the Working Paper version]
  
  
• Timothy F. Bresnahan, Erik Brynjolfsson, and Lorin M. Hitt (February 2002) "Information Technology, Workplace Organization, and the Demand for Skilled Labor: Firm-Level Evidence". Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 117 pp. 339-376. [Click here for the Working Paper version][Click here for the abstract]
  
  
• Brynjolfsson, Erik, Lorin M. Hitt, and Shinkyu Yang (December 2000) "Intangible Assets: How the Interaction of Computers and Organizational Structure Affects Stock Market Valuations" MIT Working paper.[Acrobat pdf file 113K]
  
  
• Brynjolfsson, Erik, Amy Renshaw and Marshall V. Alstyne (Winter 1997) The Matrix of Change: A Tool for Business Process Reengineering, Sloan Management Review, pp. 37-54. [Click here for information about free software for use with the "Matrix of Change"]
  
  
• Brynjolfsson, Erik and Hitt, Lorin(1997) Information Technology and Organizational Design: Evidence from Microdata, MIT Working Paper. [Acrobat pdf file 145K]
  
  
• Bakos, Yannis and Brynjolfsson, Erik (1997) Organizational Partnerships and the Virtual Corporation, Chapter 4 in Information Technology and Industrial Competitiveness: How Information Technology Shapes Competition, Kluwer Academic Publishers. [Click here for the abstract]
  
  
• Brynjolfsson, Erik (1994) Information Assets, Technology, and Organization, Management Science, Vol. 40, No. 12. (Note: the working paper version of this paper was called "An Incomplete Contracts Theory of Information, Technology, and Organization".) (A Japanese translation can be found here.)
  
  
• Brynjolfsson, Erik, Thomas Malone, Vijay Gurbaxani, and Ajit Kambil (1994) Does Information Technology Lead to Smaller Firms?, Management Science, Vol. 40, No. 12 pp. 1645-1662.
  
  
• Brynjolfsson, Erik and Mendelson, Haim (December 1993) Information Systems and the Organization of Modern Enterprise. Journal of Organizational Computing. Vol. 3, pp. 245-255.
  
  
• Bakos, Yannis. and Brynjolfsson, Erik (December 1993) From Vendors to Partners: Information Technology and Incomplete Contracts in Buyer-Supplier Relationships. Journal of Organizational Computing, Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 301-328.

Last update: August 2017