{"title":"The Economics of Cloud Computing","authors":"Federico Etro","doi":"10.4018/978-1-4666-2187-9.CH017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-2187-9.CH017","url":null,"abstract":"The paper examines the economic impact of the diffusion of a new technology as cloud computing. This will allow firms to rent computing power and storage from service providers and to pay on demand, with a profound impact on the cost structure of all the industries, turning some of the fixed costs into marginal costs of production. Such a change will have a substantial impact on the incentives to create new business, and through this, on investments and macroeconomic growth, job creation in all industries and job reallocation in the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) sector, and public finance accounts, through the direct impact on the public sector spending and the indirect one on the tax revenues. The paper investigates the consequences of the diffusion of cloud computing on market structures and competition, and tries to disentangle the above-mentioned aspects with a particular focus on a simulation run for the European economy.","PeriodicalId":175771,"journal":{"name":"The IUP Journal of Managerial Economics","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-03-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115089726","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Antecedents of Effective Decision Making: A Cognitive Approach","authors":"Allard C. R. van Riel, H. Ouwersloot, J. Lemmink","doi":"10.26481/umamet.2003026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26481/umamet.2003026","url":null,"abstract":"The effectiviness of decision-making has been associated with how well managers adapt their cognitive style to task requirements. In this paper, theories regarding decision-making under uncertainty, and the use of judgment and intuition are reviewed and integrated. The Cognitive Continuum Theory (CCT), positing a one-dimensional continuum of cognitive styles anchored by intuition and analysis, is extended: Four fundamental decision styles are identified and evaluated for their relative effectiveness under various task conditions. Propositions are developed with respect to the relationships between decision task characteristics and the likelihood of using two cognitive systems, with respect to potential moderators of decision-making effectiveness. The propositions are integrated into a comprehensive theoretical model. The major contributions of the study are a conceptual clarification of the distinctions between intuition, heuristics and bounded rationality, and the assessment of the scope of various cognitive styles as well as the identification of moderators of their effectiveness. Research implications and some suggestions for managerial practice are also provided.","PeriodicalId":175771,"journal":{"name":"The IUP Journal of Managerial Economics","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117183351","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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