Andrew P. McAfee
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Andrew McAfee is an associate professor in the Technology and Operations Management unit at Harvard Business School.
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HBS Cases: How Wikipedia Works (or Doesn't)
| Published: | July 23, 2007 |
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| Feature: | Research & Ideas |
For HBS professor Andrew McAfee, Wikipedia is a surprisingly high-quality product. But when his concept of "Enterprise 2.0" turned up on the online encyclopedia one day—and was recommended for deletion—McAfee and colleague Karim R. Lakhani knew they had the makings of an insightful case study on collaboration and governance in the digital world.
Electronic Hierarchies and Electronic Heterarchies: Relationship-Specific Assets and the Governance of Interfirm IT
| Authors: | Andrew McAfee, Marco Bettiol, and Maria Chiarvesio |
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| Published: | February 13, 2007 |
| Paper Release Date: | January 2007 |
| Feature: | Working Papers |
Scholars have long been interested in the impact of information technology on the organization of work. As Andrew McAfee and colleagues argue in this study, the appropriate governance mechanism for an IT-facilitated collaboration depends on the type of IT being deployed: When an enterprise technology is required, so is an electronic hierarchy. The paper explores the issue of relationship specificity of IT assets, proposes a categorization of information technologies based on their levels of relationship specificity, and uses data from more than forty Italian industrial districts to test three hypotheses around governance of interfirm IT. These districts typically have close ties, both horizontal and vertical, and have historically worked in close collaboration with each other.
Published in 2006
Scale without Mass: Business Process Replication and Industry Dynamics
| Authors: | Erik Brynjolfsson, Andrew McAfee, Michael Sorell, and Feng Zhu |
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| Published: | September 28, 2006 |
| Paper Release Date: | August 2006 |
| Feature: | Working Papers |
Over the past ten years there's been a clear link between IT investment and productivity growth in the U.S. economy. But what impact has IT had on competition? This paper identifies several recent changes in the competitive dynamics of U.S. industries and shows that they are associated with IT intensity; the more IT and industry has, the greater the changes. Using case studies, previous research, and a simple model, the authors offer a theory that explains these patterns in the data. They argue that IT allows the rapid spread of business process innovations, which in turn leads to more turbulent and concentrated industries.
Published in 2005
Confronting the Reality of Web Services
| Q&A with: | Andrew P. McAfee |
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| Published: | May 16, 2005 |
| Feature: | Research & Ideas |
Web services have made huge strides, but two hurdles remain, one technical, the other organizational, says HBS professor Andrew P. McAfee. "It is in fact getting easier to integrate applications, but it's never going to be easy."
Published in 2001
Wrapping Your Alliances In a World Wide Web
| Published: | November 19, 2001 |
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| Feature: | Research & Ideas |
HBS professor Andrew McAfee researches how the Internet affects manufacturing and productivity and how business can team up to get the most out of technology.
Published in 2000
Whence IT Value?
| Published: | February 29, 2000 |
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| Feature: | Research & Ideas |
Spending on information technology on the part of U.S. manufacturers is finally starting to pay off in increased productivity. Why now? Have IT investments, growing steadily since the 1970s, suddenly crossed a magic threshhold? HBS Professor Andrew McAfee believes the answer lies neither in magic nor in the growing power of computers themselves. Productivity gains, he writes in this article from the online journal Exec, may have more to do with the evolution of computing from PC "islands" to integrated networks that bridge distances and bring people together.
