E-Business and Management Science: Mutual Impacts (Part 1 of 2)

This begins a two-part commentary on management science and e-business, the theme of this two-part special issue. After explaining the topical clusters that give organization to both parts, we pose two key questions concerning the impact of the emerging digital economy on management science research...

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Published in:Management science 2003-10, Vol.49 (10), p.1275-1286
Main Authors: Geoffrion, Arthur M, Krishnan, Ramayya
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Building customization
Business studies
Consumer preferences
Customer relationship management
Customers
Customization
Data analysis
Digital economy
Digital technology
E-Business
Economic research
Economics
Electronic commerce
Electronic procurement
Forecasts
Game theory
Hypotheses
Income
Information
Information Infrastructure
Infrastructure
Internet
Inventories
Inventory
Inventory management
Management
Management Science
Marketing
Online Markets
Operations management
Pricing
Stock exchange
Studies
Supply chain management
U.S.A
Virtual reality
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Summary:This begins a two-part commentary on management science and e-business, the theme of this two-part special issue. After explaining the topical clusters that give organization to both parts, we pose two key questions concerning the impact of the emerging digital economy on management science research: What fundamentally new research questions arise, and what kind of research enables progress on them. We sketch the papers appearing in this part from the perspective of both these questions, and offer summary comments on the first question based on the papers in both parts. The principal conclusion is that the digital economy is giving birth to new research questions in three main ways (not all independent): by enabling and popularizing several types of technology-mediated interactions, by spawning large-scale digital data sources, and by creating recurring operational decisions that need to be automated.
ISSN:0025-1909
1526-5501
DOI:10.1287/mnsc.49.10.1275.17311