Tag: Organizaton of work

Invisible Innovation: Supplier Technology Strategy in the Auto Supply Chain

Susan Helper with Jennifer Kuan and Daniel Snow.

What Goes on Under the Hood? How Engineers Innovate in the Automotive Supply Chain

Susan Helper with Jennifer Kuan

Responses to Entry in Multi-Sided Markets: The Impact of Craigslist on Local Newspapers

Robert Seamans

Forking, Fragmentation and Splintering

Timothy Simcoe (with Jeremy Watson)

Tracking the gig economy: New numbers

Ian Hathaway with Mark Muro

The gig economy, as reflected by nonemployer firms, is significant and growing fast. Overall, there has been a clear surge in nonemployer firms’ — a measure of contractor and freelance individuals — business activity in the last decade, which almost certainly reflects, at least in part, the rise of online platforms.

Management Practices, Relational Contracts, and the Decline of General Motors

Susan Helper with Rebecca Henderson

General Motors was once regarded as the best-managed and most successful firm in the world. However, between 1980 and 2009, GM’s US market share fell from 46 to 20 percent, and in 2009 the firm went bankrupt. We suggest that GM’s experience may have important implications for our understanding of the role of management in the modern, knowledge-based firm.