Studies on IT, Logistics, and the Structure of Production

Simple item page
atmire.migration.oldid2906
dc.contributor.advisorNault, Barrie
dc.contributor.authorGong, Fengmei
dc.date.accessioned2015-01-29T23:18:36Z
dc.date.available2015-02-23T08:00:41Z
dc.date.issued2015-01-29
dc.date.submitted2015en
dc.description.abstractInformation Technology (IT) has changed how firms and industries run their businesses and how they organize production. This thesis examines the relationships between IT and three important aspects of production organization: the usage of logistics outsourcing, the interde-dependence with upstream suppliers for intermediate inputs, and the structure of production in an economy. The first essay examines whether the advent of the Internet coincided with a move to the market in one of the most connected industries in the economy: logistics. We find that the effects of IT on outsourced logistics have changed with the advent of the Internet. The second essay examines the impact of an industry’s IT investment on its production interdependence with upstream suppliers, where we measure interdependence as direct backward linkage (DBL), and examines the relationship among DBL, total factor productivity (TFP), and value-added. We find that an industry’s IT investment reduces its production interdependence with suppliers and leads to greater value-added. The third essay explores the relationship between IT and the structure of production in an economy. We take a unique perspective, network analysis, to generate a variety of measures of the structure of production which we categorize as connectivity among industries in an ego-centric network and concentration in an ego industry’s supplying market. It is found that an industry’s IT investment is associated with an increase in the connectivity within its supplying network and a decrease in concentration in the supplying market.en_US
dc.identifier.citationGong, F. (2015). Studies on IT, Logistics, and the Structure of Production (Doctoral thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca. doi:10.11575/PRISM/27915en_US
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/27915
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11023/2048
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisher.facultyGraduate Studies
dc.publisher.facultyHaskayne School of Business
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Calgaryen
dc.publisher.placeCalgaryen
dc.rightsUniversity of Calgary graduate students retain copyright ownership and moral rights for their thesis. You may use this material in any way that is permitted by the Copyright Act or through licensing that has been assigned to the document. For uses that are not allowable under copyright legislation or licensing, you are required to seek permission.
dc.subjectBusiness Administration--Management
dc.subject.classificationInformation Technologyen_US
dc.subject.classificationInout-Output Tablesen_US
dc.subject.classificationLogisticsen_US
dc.subject.classificationThe Structure of Productionen_US
dc.subject.classificationProduction Theoryen_US
dc.subject.classificationProduction Interdependenceen_US
dc.titleStudies on IT, Logistics, and the Structure of Production
dc.typedoctoral thesis
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Calgary
thesis.degree.nameDoctor of Philosophy (PhD)
ucalgary.item.requestcopytrue
Files
Original bundle
Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
Thumbnail Image
Name:
ucalgary_2015_gong_fengmei.pdf
Size:
2.12 MB
Format:
Adobe Portable Document Format
Download
License bundle
Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
No Thumbnail Available
Name:
license.txt
Size:
2.65 KB
Format:
Item-specific license agreed upon to submission
Description:
Download
Collections
Open Theses and Dissertations