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Research Seminar in IT and Organizations: Economic Perspectives
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- Instructor
- Prof. Erik Brynjolfsson
- Term
- Spring 2004
- Level
- Graduate
- What's inside
- 1 lecture note · 1 reading · 36 other files · 4 web pages
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- MIT OCW
About this course
Source: MIT OpenCourseWare 15.575 Research Seminar in IT and Organizations: Economic Perspectives, Spring 2004, Prof. Erik Brynjolfsson — original course page on ocw.mit.edu ↗. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Study order: MIT's own listing order, section by section. Taken from MIT's published course files, downloaded from ocw.mit.edu on September 23, 2026. How RedLectern is built.
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Readings
7 files
- Introduction: Versioning and Price Discrimination Download
- Pricing Information Download
- Reputation, Trust and Recommender Systems Download
- Economics of Networks, Standards and Lock-In Download
- IT and Productivity Download
- The Principal-Agent Model of the Firm Download
- Managerial Views of the Firm Download
Lecture Notes
- Pricing Information (PDF 1) Download
- Pricing Information (PDF 2) (Courtesy of Sumit Bhansali. Used with permission.) Download
- Reputation, Trust and Recommender Systems (Courtesy of Tanu Ghosh. Used with permission.) Download
- IT and Productivity (Courtesy of Carlos Osorio and Daniel Kindström. Used with permission.) Download
- The Principal-Agent Model of the Firm (Courtesy of David Dreyfus. Used with permission.) Download
- Managerial Views of the Firm (Courtesy of Steve Kahl. Used with permission.) Download
Assignments
- Pricing Information Download
- Economics of Networks, Standards and Lock-In Download
- IT and Productivity Download
- Managerial Views of the Firm Download
Projects
- Presentations · Industry Cohesion and Knowledge Sharing: Network based Absorptive Capacity (Courtesy of David Dreyfus. Used with permission.) Download
- The Offering, E-business, and IT - A Case Study (Courtesy of Daniel Kindstrom. Used with permission.) Download
- Papers · Industry Cohesion and Knowledge Sharing: Network based Absorptive Capacity (Courtesy of David Dreyfus. Used with permission.) Download
- A Proposal for an Econometric Analysis of Switching Costs in the Software Industry (Courtesy of Steve Kahl. Used with permission.) Download
- The Offering, E-business, and Market Orientation - Musings from a case study (Courtesy of Daniel Kindstrom. Used with permission.) Download
- Creating Incentives for Knowledge Sharing (Courtesy of Tanu Ghosh. Used with permission.) Download
Other materials from this course
13 files
- This resource explains the readings on incomplete contracts and firm boundaries (april22.pdf) Download
- This resource explains the incentives to innovate in the face of competing bundles that grow… (elydrft29apl2004.pdf) Download
- This resource deals with the sheet of information for students (feb5assign.pdf) Download
- This resource provides reading guide on search and competition I (feb19.pdf) Download
- This resource provides reading guide on search and competition II (feb26.pdf) Download
- This resource explains productivity, business profitability and consumer surplus which are maesures… (itdoesmatterv3.pdf) Download
- This resource explains the effects of bundling (ppt29april2004v2.pdf) Download
- This resource explains the theory related to firm, incomplete contracts and firm boundaries (15575incpl_cntrt.pdf) Download
- This resource explains a repeated prisoner?s dilemma model of buyer-supplier relationships and… (15575presentaton.pdf) Download
- This resource explains the representaion and comprehension of oppurtunity in corporate… (eriknoyes_repres.pdf) Download
- This resource explains a survey of the different organizational assets that impact firm… (it_intangleasst.pdf) Download
- This resource deals with the problems in online transactions (tanuppt.pdf) Download
- This resource explains the theory of making markets through internet (class_slides.pdf) Download
Course outline
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Lecture 2: Pricing Information ( PDF )
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Lecture 3: Search and Competition I
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Lecture 4: Search and Competition II
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Lecture 5: Reputation, Trust and Recommender Systems
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Lecture 6: Economics of Networks, Standards and Lock-In ( PDF )
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Lecture 7: IT and Productivity ( PDF )
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Lecture 8: The Principal-Agent Model of the Firm
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Lecture 9: Managerial Views of the Firm ( PDF )
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Lecture 10: Incomplete Contracts and Firm Boundaries
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Lecture 11: Student Presentations
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Lecture 12: Student Presentations (cont.)
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Lecture 13: The Future of the Information Economy
MIT OpenCourseWare, Prof. Erik Brynjolfsson, 15.575 Research Seminar in IT and Organizations: Economic Perspectives, Spring 2004.
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