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Committee Chairman   Dr. Eric A. Walden: Dr. Walden is an assistant professor at the Rawls College of Business, Texas Tech University. His research interests focus on developing greater understanding of information systems in the organizational context. His prior research has appeared in Information Systems Research, The International Journal of Electronic Commerce, and Electronic Markets.
 
Committee Members   Dr. Glenn J. Browne: Dr. Browne is an Associate Professor at the Rawls College of Business, Texas Tech University and Director of the Performance Economics Institute Research Center and the Institute for Internet Buyer Behavior. His research focuses on strategies for enterprise regeneration, and behavioral decision-making processes. His articles have appeared in Management Science, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, the Journal of Management Information Systems, and other journals.

Dr. Donald R. Jones: Dr. Jones is an Associate Professor at the Rawls College of Business, Texas Tech University.  His research focuses on the roll of DSS on decision making and software reuse.  His work has appeared in the Decision Support Systems, Journal of Information Systems and Advances in Accounting Behavioral Research

Dr. James B. Wilcox: Dr. Wilcox is the Alumni Professor of Marketing at the Rawls College of Business Administration at the Texas Tech University. His research focuses strategy and on the methodological issues in marketing research.  His work has appeared in Journal of Marketing, Journal of Marketing Research, Psychology & Marketing, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Journal of Retailing and numerous others.
 
Title   Bundled Transactions of Intellectual Property: An Explanation for the Choice of Organizational Form in the IT Standard Setting
Summary  

In this thesis I theorized that intellectual property issues inherent in creating a set of technical specifications give rise to transaction costs, and that these transaction costs can be moderated by the choice of governance for the technical specification writing process.  Technical specifications are composed of methods, some of which may be patented; thus, we conceptualized technical specifications as bundles of patents.  The complexity and internal specificity of these bundles result in transaction costs, including search, coordination, procurement, and legal costs.  We then examined how two idealized forms of governance—IP hierarchies and IP networks—moderate the impact of the bundle characteristics on transaction costs.  Then we discuss the implications of this knowledge.

Proposal   WORD PDF ENDNOTES
Defense Date   Tuesday, June 27, 2006 1:30 P.M. BA ROOM 259
Defense Slides   Here
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Presentations
  • "Intellectual Property Bundle Theory: An Explanation for the success of Collective Rights Organizations", Presented at the Annual BIG XII Information Systems Research Symposium, April 1-3, 2005, Norman, OK
  • "Monopoly Power in Standards is a Myth", Presented at MISQ Pre-ICIS Workshop on Standards Making: A Critical Research Frontier for Information Systems, December 12-14, 2003, Seattle, WA
  • "Managing Prosumers Knowledge as a Competitive Weapon in the Internet Market", Presented at the First Annual BIG XII Information Systems Research Symposium, April 5-6, 2003, Stillwater, OK

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