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Research
The unifying themes to my
research interests are innovation and technology adoption, and their
effects. My newest work looks at a
particular form of process innovation, the adoption of “enriched”
human resource management practices with features like quality circles,
feedback, suggestion programs, and task teams. One essay asks if the use of such practices
increases job satisfaction. A second
essay asks if enriched workplaces are more likely to produce other process or
product innovations. My other interest is the link
between environmental policy and technology adoption. The essays of my doctoral dissertation
(all which are now published or forthcoming in a refereed journal) relate to
this topic. I am currently working
with a graduate student on a follow-up piece to one of those three articles. Another extension of my interest
in technology adoption recognizes the fact that the intertemporal problem of
a firm choosing the optimum time to adopt a new technology has similarities
to a landowner’s problem of choosing the optimum time to develop a
parcel of land. The policy implications
are quite different. In the case of
technology, policy makers often wish to accelerate adoption, whereas for land
development they hope to forestall the process. Thinking about this goal of delaying change
was an interesting new direction that produced two published papers. |
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