Information technology at work in the office. (Image courtesy of Michael Jastremski and openphoto.net.)
Instructor(s)
Prof. Erik Brynjolfsson
MIT Course Number
15.575
As Taught In
Spring 2004
Level
Graduate
Course Description
Course Features
Course Description
Business organizations and markets use a bewildering variety of structures to coordinate the productive activities of their stakeholders. Dramatic changes in information technology and the nature of economic competition are forcing firms to come up with new ways of organizing work. This course uses economic theory to investigate the roles of information and technology in the existing diversity of organizations and markets and in enabling the creating of new organizational forms.