Publications

The dissertation looks at the practice of software development in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil — a place at the periphery of the global world of software development. Software development is often conceptualized as a placeless field of endeavor. At the same time software work is highly concentrated, with "right" and "wrong" places to do it. Ethnographic data from a "wrong place" helps challenge some…

This dissertation is a collection of papers quite varied in the methods used and the topics examined. Common to them all is a focus on the use of information and the use of experiments and quantitative methods for the analysis. In the three experiments I look at the question of monetizing information goods available on the internet; issues of privacy where personal information is the main…

In Collaboration, author Morten Hansen takes aim at what many leaders inherently know: in today's competitive environment, company-wide collaboration is an imperative for successful strategy execution, yet the sought-after synergies are rarely, if ever, realized. In fact, most cross-unit collaborative efforts end up wasting time, money, and resources. How can managers avoid the costly…

“There has never been,” Nunberg writes, “an age as wary as ours of the tricks words can play, obscuring distinctions and smoothing over the corrugations of the actual world.... Yet as advertisers and marketers know, our mistrust of words doesn't inoculate us against them.” These are the years of talking dangerously, and Nunberg is a sure guide to the pitfalls. With illuminating intelligence…