Erik Brynjolfsson

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Erik Brynjolfsson

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Erik Brynjolfsson's Degrees

Masters Applied Mathematics Stanford University
Bachelors Systems Engineering University of Pennsylvania

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According to Wikipedia, Erik Brynjolfsson is an American academic, author and inventor. He is the Jerry Yang and Akiko Yamazaki Professor and a Senior Fellow at Stanford University where he directs the Digital Economy Lab at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI, with appointments at SIEPR, the Stanford Department of Economics and the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a best-selling author of several books. He is known for his contributions to the world of IT productivity research and work on the economics of information and the digital economy more generally.

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Big data: the management revolution. (2012) (3901)
Beyond Computation: Information Technology, Organizational Transformation and Business Performance (2000) (3074)
The productivity paradox of information technology (1993) (2516)
Paradox Lost? Firm-Level Evidence on the Returns to Information Systems Spending (1996) (2379)
Frictionless Commerce? A Comparison of Internet and Conventional Retailers (2000) (2288)
Productivity, Business Profitability, and Consumer Surplus: Three Different Measures of Information Technology Value (1996) (1790)
Computing Productivity: Firm-Level Evidence (2003) (1512)
Consumer Surplus in the Digital Economy: Estimating the Value of Increased Product Variety at Online Booksellers (2003) (1270)
Bundling Information Goods: Pricing, Profits, and Efficiency (1999) (1186)
Race against the machine : how the digital revolution is accelerating innovation, driving productivity, and irreversibly transforming employment and the economy (2011) (1183)
The second machine age: work, progress, and prosperity in a time of brilliant technologies, 1st Edition (2014) (1172)
Beyond the productivity paradox (1998) (1129)
On the Opportunities and Risks of Foundation Models (2021) (938)
Intangible Assets: Computers and Organizational Capital (2002) (869)
Goodbye Pareto Principle, Hello Long Tail: The Effect of Search Costs on the Concentration of Product Sales (2011) (741)
Information Technology and Productivity: A Review of the Literature (1996) (732)
Information Technology As A Factor Of Production: The Role Of Differences Among Firms (1995) (658)
Bundling and Competition on the Internet (1999) (637)
Consumer Decision‐making at an Internet Shopbot: Brand Still Matters (2001) (632)
Understanding Digital Markets: Review and Assessment (2001) (596)
Strength in Numbers: How Does Data-Driven Decisionmaking Affect Firm Performance? (2011) (593)
From Niches to Riches: Anatomy of the Long Tail (2006) (493)
Covid-19 and Remote Work: An Early Look at Us Data (2020) (490)
Information Technology, Incentives, and the Optimal Number of Suppliers (1993) (428)
Artificial Intelligence and the Modern Productivity Paradox: A Clash of Expectations and Statistics (2017) (424)
What can machine learning do? Workforce implications (2017) (422)
Shared Information Goods (1999) (381)
The Future of Prediction: How Google Searches Foreshadow Housing Prices and Sales (2013) (375)
Battle of the Retail Channels: How Product Selection and Geography Drive Cross-Channel Competition (2009) (348)
Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future (2017) (343)
From vendors to partners: Information technology and incomplete contracts in buyer‐supplier relationships (1993) (336)
Information assets, technology, and organization (1994) (311)
Global Village or Cyberbalkans: Modeling and Measuring the Integration of Electronic Communities (2005) (302)
The Contribution of Information Technology to Consumer Welfare (1996) (302)
Beyond the Productivity Paradox: Computers are the Catalyst for Bigger Changes (1998) (297)
Does Information Technology Lead to Smaller Firms (2011) (294)
Consumer Decision-Making at an Internet Shopbot (2001) (292)
Information Technology and Internal Firm Organization: An Exploratory Analysis (1997) (292)
Network Externalities in Microcomputer Software: An Econometric Analysis of the Spreadsheet Market (2014) (258)
Is Information Systems Spending Productive? New Evidence and New Results (1993) (247)
Toward understanding the impact of artificial intelligence on labor (2019) (243)
What Can Machines Learn, and What Does It Mean for Occupations and the Economy? (2018) (226)
Three-Way Complementarities: Performance Pay, Human Resource Analytics, and Information Technology (2012) (220)
Information, Technology and Information Worker Productivity (2011) (215)
The Extroverted Firm: How External Information Practices Affect Innovation and Productivity (2012) (212)
The Rapid Adoption of Data-Driven Decision-Making (2016) (210)
Complementarity in Organizations (2012) (206)
Which Came First, it or Productivity? Virtuous Cycle of Investment and Use in Enterprise Systems (2006) (206)
The Matrix of Change (1997) (204)
Intangible assets: how the interaction of computers and organizational structure affects stock market valuations (1998) (201)
What Drives Differences in Management Practices? (2019) (194)
Understanding the Digital Economy: Data, Tools, and Research (2000) (186)
Research Commentary - Long Tails vs. Superstars: The Effect of Information Technology on Product Variety and Sales Concentration Patterns (2010) (178)
The Intangible Costs and Benefits of Computer Investments: Evidence from the Financial Markets (2001) (175)
Mining Face-to-Face Interaction Networks using Sociometric Badges: Predicting Productivity in an IT Configuration Task (2008) (174)
Measuring the Information Economy (2009) (164)
The Productivity J-Curve: How Intangibles Complement General Purpose Technologies (2018) (154)
Cloud computing and electricity (2010) (152)
Using massive online choice experiments to measure changes in well-being (2018) (142)
Information systems and the organization of modern enterprise (1993) (138)
Wired for Innovation: How Information Technology Is Reshaping the Economy (2009) (137)
Scale Without Mass: Business Process Replication and Industry Dynamics (2008) (136)
Does Machine Translation Affect International Trade? Evidence from a Large Digital Platform (2018) (132)
The Three Faces of IT Value: Theory and Evidence (1994) (131)
Artificial Intelligence and Life in 2030: The One Hundred Year Study on Artificial Intelligence (2016) (123)
Aggregation and Disaggregation of Information Goods: Implications for Bundling, Site Licensing, and Micropayment Systems (2001) (117)
The Productivity Paradox of Information Technology: Review and Assessment (2014) (114)
The Attention Economy: Measuring the Value of Free Digital Services on the Internet (2012) (111)
Technological Change, Computerization, and the Wage Structure (2000) (104)
What Drives Differences in Management? (2017) (100)
Electronic Communities : Global Village or Cyberbalkans ? (1996) (97)
Technological Change and the Stock Market (2004) (91)
Why Not One Big Database? Principles for Data Ownership (1995) (90)
Productivity Effects of Information Diffusion in Networks (2007) (86)
Valuing Information Technology Related Intangible Assets (2016) (84)
That Makes a Competitive Difference (2008) (84)
The intangible benefits and costs of investments: evidence from financial markets (1997) (79)
The Longer Tail: The Changing Shape of Amazon’s Sales Distribution Curve (2010) (79)
Could the Internet Balkanize Science? (1996) (77)
Winning the Race With Ever-Smarter Machines (2012) (77)
Race Against the Machine (2011) (73)
Track how technology is transforming work (2017) (71)
Understanding the digital economy (2014) (71)
A nearly perfect market? (2009) (69)
Dynamics of Retail Advertising: Evidence from a Field Experiment (2007) (69)
The Matrix of Change: A Tool for Business Process Reengineering (1996) (65)
Search and Product Differentiation at an Internet Shopbot (2004) (64)
Racing With and Against the Machine: Changes in Occupational Skill Composition in an Era of Rapid Technological Advance (2014) (62)
The AI Index 2021 Annual Report (2021) (61)
Will humans go the way of horses (2015) (61)
The Future of Prediction: How Google Searches Foreshadow Housing Prices and Quantities (2009) (60)
Chapter 3 - The Future of Prediction: How Google Searches Foreshadow Housing Prices and Sales / Lynn Wu and Erik Brynjolfsson (2015) (59)
Data in Action: Data-Driven Decision Making in U.S. Manufacturing (2016) (59)
What it can — and cannot — do for your organization (2017) (58)
Intangible benefits and costs of computer investments: evidence from the financial market (1997) (58)
Human work in the robotic future (2016) (58)
Gdp-B: Accounting for the Value of New and Free Goods in the Digital Economy (2019) (56)
Strategies for E-Business Success (2001) (56)
Management in America (2013) (53)
Organizational Partnerships and the Virtual Corporation (1998) (52)
A nearly perfect market? : Differentiation vs. price in consumer choice () (2010) (51)
Crowd-Squared: Amplifying the Predictive Power of Search Trend Data (2015) (49)
Why information technology hasn't increased the optimal number of suppliers (1993) (49)
Do Digital Platforms Reduce Moral Hazard? The Case of Uber and Taxis (2018) (47)
The Great Decoupling (2013) (43)
Consumer Protection in an Online World: An Analysis of Occupational Licensing (2020) (41)
Advanced Technologies Adoption and Use by U.S. Firms: Evidence from the Annual Business Survey (2020) (40)
The great equalizer?: consumer choice behavior at Internet shopbots (2011) (39)
Information technology, organizational transformation, and business performance (2002) (39)
An incomplete contracts theory of information, technology and organization (1991) (37)
Digital Resilience: How Work-From-Home Feasibility Affects Firm Performance (2020) (35)
Information Technology and Recent Changes in Work Organization Increase the Demand for Skilled Labor (1999) (33)
ICT, innovation and the e-economy (2011) (32)
Information Technology, Repeated Contracts, and the Number of Suppliers (2018) (32)
The New World Order (2014) (29)
The AI Index 2022 Annual Report (2022) (28)
A causal test of the strength of weak ties (2022) (28)
The Future of the Web: Beyond Enterprise 2.0 (2007) (27)
Digital Capital and Superstar Firms (2020) (26)
Productivity without Profit?: Three Measures of Information Technology's Value (1996) (26)
Bundling Information Goods: Pricing, Profits, and Efficiency.: Pricing, Profits, and Efficiency. (1999) (25)
Data in Action: Data-Driven Decision Making and Predictive Analytics in U.S. Manufacturing (2019) (25)
New Evidence on the returns of information systems (1993) (25)
IT and Management in America (2014) (24)
Mining Face-to-Face Interaction Networks Using Sociometric Badges: Evidence Predicting Productivity in IT Configuration (2008) (24)
What the GDP Gets Wrong (Why Managers Should Care) (2009) (24)
Computers and economic growth: firm-level evidence (1994) (23)
Electronic Communities: Global Villages or Cyberbalkanization? (Best Theme Paper) (1996) (23)
Social Advertising Eﬀectiveness Across Products: A Large-Scale Field Experiment (2020) (23)
Economic and Business Dimensions Cloud Computing and Electricity: Beyond the Utility Model (2020) (21)
Communication Networks and the Rise of an Information Elite: Do Computers Help the Rich Get Richer? (1995) (21)
The Digital Economy, GDP and Consumer Welfare: Theory and Evidence (2018) (21)
Information technology and the 'new managerial work' (1993) (20)
Digital Abundance and Scarce Genius: Implications for Wages, Interest Rates, and Growth (2019) (19)
The power of prediction: predictive analytics, workplace complements, and business performance (2021) (18)
OR Forum - Tenure Analytics: Models for Predicting Research Impact (2015) (18)
Productivity Effects of Information Diffusion in E-Mail Networks (2007) (18)
Testing Three-Way Complementarities: Performance Pay, Monitoring and Information Technology (2009) (17)
Learning Occupational Task-Shares Dynamics for the Future of Work (2020) (16)
Measuring the Impact of Free Goods on Real Household Consumption (2020) (16)
The Turing Trap: The Promise & Peril of Human-Like Artificial Intelligence (2022) (15)
Valuing IT-Related Intangible Assets (2015) (15)
Creating Value and Destroying Profits? Three Measures of Information Technology's Contributions (1995) (15)
The rise of data-driven decision-making is real but uneven (2017) (15)
Differentiation vs. price in consumer choice (2010) (14)
Three-Way Complementarities: Performance Pay, HR Analytics and Information Technology (2010) (14)
Assessing Three-Way Complementarities: Performance Pay, Monitoring and Information Technology (2010) (13)
The productivity of information technology : review and assessment (1992) (13)
IT, AI and the Growth of Intangible Capital (2019) (13)
Measuring Welfare with Massive Online Choice Experiments: A Brief Introduction (2018) (13)
Innovation Incentives for Information Goods (2006) (13)
A Longer Tail?: Estimating The Shape of Amazon's Sales Distribution Curve in 2008 (2008) (13)
Long Tails Versus Superstars: The Effect of IT on Product Variety and Sales Concentration Patterns (2010) (13)
FOREIGN AFFAIRS Will Humans Go the Way of Horses? Labor in the Second Machine Age (2015) (12)
WHEN QUALITY MATTERS: INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND BUYER-SUPPLIER RELATIONSHIPS (1993) (12)
NeuroIS: Hype or Hope? (2009) (12)
The Price and Quantity of IT-Related Intangible Capital (2011) (11)
The Extroverted Firm: How External Information Practices Affect Productivity (2008) (11)
Economic analysis of information technology and organization (1996) (11)
Markets, hierarchies and the impact of information technology (1988) (10)
Digitizing Work: Driving and Measuring Changes in Information Worker Time Use and Performance Via a Longitudinal Quasi-Experiment (2007) (10)
Should the Core Information Systems Curriculum be Structured Around a Fundamental Question (2004) (10)
Network Analysis for Predicting Academic Impact (2013) (10)
CEO Compensation and Information Technology (2009) (9)
Sociometric Badges: A New Tool for I.S. Research (2011) (9)
Working With Robots in a Post-Pandemic World (2020) (8)
Moneyball for Academics: Network Analysis for Predicting Research Impact (2014) (8)
Information technology and the re-organization of work : theory and evidence (1990) (8)
Antecedents and Consequences of Mutual Knowledge in Teams (2008) (8)
The Attention Economy: Measuring the Value of Free Goods on the Internet (2012) (8)
Network Structure & Information Advantage: Structural Determinants of Access to Novel Information and Their Performance Implications (2007) (8)
Identifying the Multiple Skills in Skill-Biased Technical Change (2015) (8)
Social Networks, Social Computing and Knowledge Management (2008) (7)
Shared Information Goods* (1999) (7)
Digital Organization: Preliminary Results from an MIT Study of Internet Organization, Culture and Productivity (2002) (6)
Information technology, incentives and the optimal number of suppliers (1994) (6)
Estimating the Contribution of Computers to Productivity Growth (2000) (6)
Information Goods (2011) (5)
Crowd-Squared: Amplifying the Predictive Power of Large-Scale Crowd-Based Data (2013) (5)
Will Your Job Disappear (2014) (5)
INTANGIBLE ASSETS: HOW COMPUTERS AND ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE AFFECT STOCK MARKET VALUATIONS (2002) (5)
PANEL 12 INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND THE PRODUCTIVITY PARADOX (1989) (5)
Using Crowd-Based Data Selection to Improve the Predictive Power of Search Trend Data (2014) (5)
Innovation and the E-Economy (2011) (4)
The Net Effect: Modeling and Measuring the Integration of Electronic Communities (1997) (4)
COMMUNICATION NETWORKS AND THE RISE OF AN INFORMATION ELITE CAN COMMUNICATION HELP THE INFORMATION RICH GET RICHER (2002) (4)
Scale without Mass: Business Process Replication and Its Implications for Industry Dynamics (2006) (4)
Tools for Teaching Change Management: The Matrix of Change and Supporting Software. (1997) (4)
Network Structure and Information Worker Productivity : New Evidence from the Global Consulting Services Industry (2008) (4)
Cybersecurity Hiring in Response to Data Breaches (2021) (4)
Ownership Principles for Distributed Database Design (1993) (3)
Analysis of the Relationship between Virtual Goods Trading and Performance of Virtual Worlds (2011) (3)
Essays on internet markets and information goods (2005) (3)
Google Apps for Enterprise Installed Solution (2006) (3)
Slicing the Gordian Knot: A Novel Mechanism for Providing Innovation Incentives for Digital Goods (2004) (3)
Measuring the Impact of Electronic Data Management on Information Worker Productivity (2008) (3)
11-2003 Computing Productivity : Firm-Level Evidence (2017) (3)
The Great Equalizer ? An Empirical Study of Consumer Choice at a Shopbot (2007) (3)
Cloud Computing and Electricity: Beyond the Utility Model Assessing the strengths, weaknesses, and general applicability of the computing-as-utility business model. (2010) (2)
Do Digital Platforms Reduce Moral Hazard ? The Case of Taxis and Uber ∗ (2018) (2)
Internet and Digital Economics: Bundling and competition on the Internet (2007) (2)
job2vec: Learning a Representation of Jobs∗ (2021) (2)
What do we really want ? (1999) (2)
Information Worker Productivity : Evidence from Worker Output , Compensation and Email Traffic Data (2005) (2)
What do we really want ? A manifesto for the organizations of the 21 st Century (1999) (2)
Digitizing Work : Measuring Changes in Information Worker Time Use and Performance With a Quasi-Experiment Paper (2007) (2)
Information Technology, Repeated Contracts and the Number of Suppliers (2012) (2)
1 WISE ‘ 98 Extended Abstract Internet Market Efficiency : Fact or Friction ? Evidence from Internet and Traditional Retailers of Books and CDs (2)
User Investment and Firm Value : Case of Internet Firms (2013) (2)
Technology , Incentives , and Service Quality : the Case of Taxis and Uber ∗ (2018) (2)
Forecasting Task-Shares and Characterizing Occupational Change across Industry Sectors (2020) (2)
Determinants of the Demand for Microcomputer Software: An Econometric Analysis (1993) (1)
Incentives for Innovation in the Information Economy (2009) (1)
Replication data for: What Can Machines Learn, and What Does It Mean for Occupations and the Economy? (2019) (1)
Information Technology Productivity Paradox: The Problem Facing IT Managers and Researchers (1994) (1)
A Mechanism for Providing Innovation Incentives for Digital Goods (2004) (1)
NETWORK ANALYSIS FOR PREDICTING ACADEMIC IMPACT ResearchinProgress (2013) (1)
Human Capital Acquisition in Response to Data Breaches (2022) (1)
Hierarchies and the Impact of Information Technology (1)
IT's Contributions to Productivity and Economic Growth (2009) (1)
Information Technology and the Rise of the Power Law Economy (2015) (1)
Information Technology and Organizational Design : Evidence from Micro Data October , 1998 (1997) (1)
IT Practices and Customer Satisfaction At 138 Large Firms (2008) (1)
Tools and Frameworks for Digital Business Ecosystems (2007) (1)
AI and Employment: The Future of the Workforce (2017) (0)
AI and Firm Strategy: New Perspectives and Opportunities (2022) (0)
The Thr ee Faces of IT Value: Theor y and Evidence (1994) (0)
2 Social Networks , Social Computing and Knowledge Management (2008) (0)
Computers and Economic Growth: Firm-leyel Evidence Computers and Economic Growth: Firm-level Evidence (0)
Information Technology and the Rise of the Power Law Economy Completed Research Paper (2015) (0)
Replication data for: The Rapid Adoption of Data-Driven Decision-Making (2019) (0)
CEO Pay and Information Technology (2015) (0)
Producer Innovation Incentives and Revenue Distribution of Bundled Products (2010) (0)
In brief: Management in America (2014) (0)
2 Short-term Research Priorities 2 . 1 Optimizing AI ’ s Economic Impact (0)
Technology, Innovation, and Productivity in the Information Age (2009) (0)
Information Technology, Firm Size, and Industrial Concentration (2023) (0)
CEO PAY AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY PRELIMINARY AND INCOMPLETE NOVEMBER , 2015 (2015) (0)
Do Computers Reduce the Value of Worker Persistence? (2022) (0)
Why Should We Care about Productivity? beyond the Productivity Paradox (1998) (0)
Call for Papers on Trust in An Organizational Context (2000) (0)
Gains from Product Variety: Evidence from a Large Digital Platform (2022) (0)
What Can Information Systems Learn from Economics? Applications and Highlights from Current Research (1993) (0)
Moneyball for Academics: network analysis methods for predicting the future success of papers and researchers. (2014) (0)
Business Practices That Enhance Productivity (2009) (0)
Frontier Research Opportunities (2009) (0)
Dynamic Socio-Economic Disequilibrium Catalyzed by Internet of Things (2015) (0)
Replication data for: What Drives Differences in Management Practices? (2019) (0)
How Many Americans Work Remotely? A Survey of Surveys and Their Measurement Issues (2023) (0)
The Characteristics and Geographic Distribution of Robot Hubs in U.S. Manufacturing Establishments (2023) (0)
Panel 3 How Should Information be Priced? Winning Strategies for the Digital Economy (1996) (0)
Pseudo-reflective read-preventer for optical storage media (2000) (0)
Information Technology and the 'new Managerial Work' Information Technology and the 'new Managerial Work' Information Technology and the 'new Managerial Work' (0)
Consumer Decision-making at an Internet Shopbot Paper (2001) (0)
Are We Wise About Sub-Fields in IS? Lessons from Forming and Sustaining a Research Community (2009) (0)
Generative AI at Work (2023) (0)
Information Technology and the 'new Managerial Work' Information Technology and the 'new Managerial Work' Information Technology and the 'new Managerial Work' (0)
MONEYBALL FOR PROFESSORS : MODELS FOR PREDICTING RESEARCH IMPACT (2016) (0)
When Do Computers Reduce the Value of Worker Persistence? (2018) (0)
Helping Small Businesses Become More Data-Driven: A Field Experiment on Ebay (2023) (0)
Comment on Concentration and Agglomeration of IT Innovation: Evidence from Patenting (2020) (0)
Replication data for: Measuring Welfare with Massive Online Choice Experiments: A Brief Introduction (2019) (0)
Draft : Comments welcome Beyond Computation : Information Technology , Organizational Transformation and Business Performance Current Revision : April , 2000 (2000) (0)
Battle of the Retail Channels: How Internet Selection and Local Retailer Proximity Drive Cross-Channel Competition (2007) (0)
NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES NOWCASTING AND PLACECASTING ENTREPRENEURIAL QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE (2015) (0)
User-Generated Capital and Firm Value: Theory and Evidence from Internet Firms (2014) (0)
Bundling Information Goods: Pricing, Profits and Efficiency (1998) (0)
Harnessing the Digital Lens to Measure and Manage Information Work (2010) (0)
High-technology industries and market structure: commentary (2001) (0)

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