Does IO Economics Really Make the Case for Investments in IT: Comment on West and Courtney
评论West和Courtney依赖产业组织经济学论证IT投资效益的做法,指出选择性解读文献易导致误解。
West and Courtney [18] rely on industrial organization economics in general, and the economics of uncertainty in particular, for insights into the benefits of overcoming information constraints through information systems (IS) and improved information technologies (IT). This Comment argues that the IS researcher who looks to the economics of uncertainty to make a case for improved IT will only find support from a selective reading of a constantly expanding literature whose aims and inferences are easily misunderstood.