CAREER: Measuring Information's Contribution: Research on Value and Productivity

职业：衡量信息的贡献：价值和生产力研究

• 批准号: 9876233
• 负责人: Marshall Van Alstyne
• 金额: $ 30万
• 依托单位: Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 1999
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1999-03-15 至 2004-02-29
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9876233&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CAREER; Measuring; Information; Contribution; Research

Measuring Information's Contribution: Research on Value and ProductivityCAREER #98-76233Van Alstyne, Marshall W.The University of Michigan, Ann ArborThis career development plan developes research and education agendas along two dimensions: how to measure information value and how to evaluate information productivity.The first study devolopes a proof-theoretic model of value by combining concepts of utility and time-discounting from economics and procedural information from computer science. By modeling information as an uncertainty reducing series of instructions, a decision maker creates a call on a particular result. Financial options theory might then be used to value the information instrument. The significance is that numerous management decisions might benefit from having better information value tools.The second study provides an empirical complement by gathering data on management practices that contribute to productivity. Software monitors will track organizational information flows. Interviews will provide context. Hypotheses - such as the value of decentralized access, focused communications, and incentives to promote sharing - will be tested using econometrics. Study benefits include better understanding of information productivity, use of person rather than firm level data, and newly developed integration metrics.Related educational activities include mentoring Ph.D. research assistants, teaching these topics in a new Information, Economics, Management, and Policy track, and codeveloping dual degrees in Public Policy, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, and Law.

van Alstyne, Marshall w .密歇根大学安娜堡分校的职业发展计划从两个方面发展了研究和教育议程：如何衡量信息价值和如何评估信息生产力。第一项研究通过结合经济学的效用和时间贴现概念以及计算机科学的程序信息，建立了价值的证明理论模型。通过将信息建模为减少一系列指令的不确定性，决策者创建了对特定结果的调用。金融期权理论可以用来对信息工具进行估值。其意义在于，许多管理决策可能受益于更好的信息价值工具。第二项研究通过收集有助于提高生产率的管理实践的数据，提供了一个实证补充。软件监视器将跟踪组织信息流。面试将提供背景。一些假设——比如去中心化访问的价值、集中的交流和促进共享的激励——将使用计量经济学进行检验。研究的好处包括更好地理解信息生产力，使用个人而不是公司层面的数据，以及新开发的集成度量。相关的教育活动包括指导博士研究助理，在新的信息、经济、管理和政策课程中教授这些主题，并共同开发公共政策、电子工程与计算机科学和法律双学位。