Grosch's law re-revisited: CPU power and the cost of computation
Communications of the ACM
The economics of computers: costs, benefits, policies, and strategies
The economics of computers: costs, benefits, policies, and strategies
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Communications of the ACM
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Economies of scale in computing: Grosch's law revisited
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Computer hardware performance: production and cost function analyses
Communications of the ACM
Software engineering management
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Assessing the value of information
ICIS '89 Proceedings of the tenth international conference on Information Systems
ICIS '89 Proceedings of the tenth international conference on Information Systems
Class management for software communities
Communications of the ACM
A microeconomic approach to the measurement of information technology value
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The impact of information systems on organizations and markets
Communications of the ACM
Legally speaking: is information property?
Communications of the ACM
Implementing faceted classification for software reuse
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Justifying investments in new information technologies
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Software piracy: an analysis of protection strategies
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A strategic analysis of electronic marketplaces
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The market for computer readable information
The market for computer readable information
Some new results in testing for economies of scale in computing: 1985 and 1988 data
Decision Support Systems
Electronic markets and electronic hierarchies
Communications of the ACM
Price/performance patterns of U. S. computer systems
Communications of the ACM
Economies of scale and the IBM system/360
Communications of the ACM
Information Systems: A Management Perspective
Information Systems: A Management Perspective
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Management Information Systems, International: Managerial End User Perspective
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Principles of Information Systems: A Managerial Approach
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Software Engineering Economics
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Computers and Profits: Quantifying Financial Benefits of Information
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Productivity factors and programming environments
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IP telephony in the enterprise network: comparing operating costs of PSTN and IP network
International Journal of Business Information Systems
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This paper explores the issue of scale economies in the construction of information systems. Economic theory is used to identify transaction attributes that contribute to scale economies and the concept of an information system is then decomposed into separable components. Each component is analyzed with respect to the availability of one or more of the sources of scale economy. The analysis finds that each component possesses at least some potential for realizing scale economies and that some components may realize very large per-unit cost savings as scale of system use or capability is expanded. The implications of these findings for the organization of information services, including outsourcing, are highlighted and illustrated with consistent examples from IS-intensive industries. Future research is proposed with respect to the actual nature of IS scale economies; the presence of scope economies with respect to multicomponent systems; the relative importance of production costs, transaction costs, and benefits as determinants of acquisition choice; and the impact of IS acquisition method on the organization of firms and industries.