TY - CONF TI - The Management of End-User Computing: Critical Attributes for Organizational Success AU - Weiss, I AU - Alavi, M AU - Nelson, RR C2 - 1987/1// C3 - Proceedings of the 20th Annual meeting of the Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences DA - 1987/1// ER - TY - JOUR TI - Strategies for End-User Computing: An Integrative Framework AU - Alavi, Maryam AU - Nelson, R. Ryan AU - Weiss, Ira R. T2 - Journal of Management Information Systems AB - :This paper develops a framework consisting of five core strategies or organizational postures vis-à-vis end-user computing (euc). Following a description of each of the strategies, the authors employed a two-step process to represent (1) how to effectively implement a particular euc strategy, and (2) when to adopt a particular euc strategy. The first step, based on some field observations, resulted in a descriptive profiling of the euc strategies via the management attributes of policy setting and planning, support, and control. The second step produced a prescriptive timing with respect to the phases of euc strategy evolution. The integrative framework that resulted from this two-step process was based on the premise that euc technology adoption follows a learning curve phenomenon. In essence, such a framework should serve as a tool, useful to the practitioner in coping with the dynamic environment surrounding the management of end-user computing. DA - 1987/12// PY - 1987/12// DO - 10.1080/07421222.1987.11517799 VL - 4 IS - 3 SP - 28-49 J2 - Journal of Management Information Systems LA - en OP - SN - 0742-1222 1557-928X UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07421222.1987.11517799 DB - Crossref ER - TY - JOUR TI - Relative Wage Variability in the United States 1860-1983 AU - Allen, Steven G. T2 - The Review of Economics and Statistics AB - This paper examines the magnitude of changes in relative wages across industries between 1860 and 1983 and analyzes the macroeconomic determinants of such changes at different intervals during this period. The variance across industries in wage growth was at least four times larger before 1948 than afterward. Except for smaller year-to-year variability in output growth across industries after 1948, the macroeconomic factors examined cannot account for this increased rigidity of relative wages. Increases in average establishment size and improved communication of wage trends are probably partially responsible for the observed increase in relative wage rigidity. No single macroeconomic model was consistent with the year-to-year fluctuations in relative wage rigidity in every historical period examined. DA - 1987/11// PY - 1987/11// DO - 10.2307/1935956 VL - 69 IS - 4 SP - 617 J2 - The Review of Economics and Statistics OP - SN - 0034-6535 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1935956 DB - Crossref ER - TY - JOUR TI - Can Union Labor ever Cost Less? AU - Allen, Steven G. T2 - The Quarterly Journal of Economics AB - This paper examines the effect of unions on efficiency by estimating cost function systems over three different sets of construction projects. The results show that union contractors have greater economies of scale. This gives them a cost advantage in large commercial office buildings, but in school and hospital construction, nonunion contractors have lower costs at all output levels. Despite the cost differences, profits for nonunion contractors in school and hospital construction are no higher than those for union contractors because the burden of higher union costs is shifted to buyers. DA - 1987/5// PY - 1987/5// DO - 10.2307/1885067 VL - 102 IS - 2 SP - 347 J2 - The Quarterly Journal of Economics OP - SN - 0033-5533 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1885067 DB - Crossref ER - TY - JOUR TI - A COMPARISON OF ANNUAL COMMON-STOCK RETURNS - 1871-1925 WITH 1926-85 AU - WILSON, JW AU - JONES, CP T2 - JOURNAL OF BUSINESS AB - Lawrence Fisher and James H. Lorie, and Roger G. Ibbotson and Rex A. Sinquefield have documented annual returns on common stocks since 1926. Prior to 1926, due to the work of the Cowles Commission, annual returns can be extended back to January 1871. This study utilizes Alfred Cowles's reconstruction of common stock returns to provide a comparison between the periods 1871-1925 and 1926-85. A comparable series of annual returns over the complete 115-year period is developed in both nominal and inflation-adjusted terms. The comparison of the two periods suggests that the inflation-adjusted return averages 6.6 percent with similar variability between the two periods. Copyright 1987 by the University of Chicago. DA - 1987/4// PY - 1987/4// DO - 10.1086/296394 VL - 60 IS - 2 SP - 239-258 SN - 0021-9398 ER -