Toward the 24-Hour Knowledge Factory by Gupta, Amar, Seshasai, Satwik

“…The term “24-Hour Knowledge Factory” connotes a globally distributed work environment in which members of the global team work on a project around the clock; each member of the team works the normal workday hours that pertain to his or her time zone. …”
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Toward the 24-Hour Knowledge Factory by Gupta, Amar, Seshasai, Satwik

“…The term 24-Hour Knowledge Factory connotes a globally distributed work environment in which members of the global team work on a project around the clock; each member of the team works the normal workday hours that pertain to his or her time zone. …”
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Toward the 24-Hour Knowledge Factory by Gupta, Amar, Seshasai, Satwik

“…The term 24-Hour Knowledge Factory connotes a globally distributed work environment in which members of the global team work on a project around the clock; each member of the team works the normal workday hours that pertain to his or her time zone. …”
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Toward the 24-Hour Knowledge Factory in Software Development by Seshasai, Satwik

“…While the British Empire has gradually disintegrated, we can now coin an equivalent notion: “The Sun never sets on the 24-hour Knowledge Factory!”…”
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Wages, income and hours of work in the U.S. labor force, by Hall, Robert Ernest

Subjects: “…Hours of labor…”
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Rat race redux : adverse selection in the determination of work hours by Landers, Rene M., Rebitzer, James B., Taylor, Lowell J.

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The Use of Information Systems in Collocated and Distributed Teams: A Test of the 24-Hour Knowledge Factory by Seshasai, Satwik, Malter, Alan J., Gupta, Amar

“…This paper broadens this perspective by introducing and evaluating the 24-hour knowledge factory as a model of information systems offshoring that leverages other strategic factors beyond cost savings. …”
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Offshoring: The Transition From Economic Drivers Toward Strategic Global Partnership and 24-Hour Knowledge Factory by Gupta, Amar, Seshasai, Satwik, Mukherji, Sourav, Ganguly, Auroop

“…Further, instead of a binary model in which the work is performed in the country of the sponsoring organization or a different country, we will gradually see a new work paradigm in which the work is performed in a sequence in factories located in multiple continents of the world. Such 24-Hour Knowledge Factories can leverage factors beyond cost savings. …”
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Use of Collaborative Technologies and Knowledge Sharing in Co-located and Distributed Teams: Towards the 24-Hour Knowledge Factory by Gupta, Amar, Mattarelli, Elisa, Seshasai, Satwik, Broschak, Joseph

“…In the present study, we investigate a particular type of GDT working ‘around the clock’: the 24 hours knowledge factory (Gupta, 2008). Adopting the productivity perspective on knowledge sharing (Haas and Hansen, 2005, 2007), we develop 11 hypotheses to compare technology use, knowledge sharing processes, and performance of a 24 hours knowledge factory with a co-located team. …”
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The 24-Hour Knowledge Factory Paradigm: The Evolving Model for Offshoring based on Strategic, Economic, Legal, Health, Technical, and Other Considerations by Gupta, Amar

“…The 24-Hour Knowledge Factory paradigm involves 3 (or more) collaborating centers, each located in a different continent. …”
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The State of Working Families in Massachusetts by Fogg, Neeta, Harrington, Paul, Kochan, Thomas

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Short & long run transmission incentives for generation location by Turvey, Ralph

“…The optimal location of generation in the short-run is a matter of determining the unit commitment and dispatch of the existing generation park so as to minimise the cost of generation hour by hour, subject to security constraints and taking account of transmission losses. …”
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Megacities and High Speed Rail systems: which comes first? by Pagliara, Francesca, de Abreu e Silva, Joao, Sussman, Joseph M., Stein, Naomi

“…In this case the HSR binds together cities in a band, where each pair of cities is at a time distance of between 20 minutes and 1 hour, allowing daily commuting. In the U.S., HSR projects are very recent and they will have the role of connecting already formed megacities. …”
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$2.00 gas! : studying the effects of gas tax moratorium by Doyle, Joseph J., Samphantharak, Krislert

“…Some evidence also suggests that the tax reinstatements are associated with higher prices up to an hour into neighboring states, which provides some evidence on the size of the geographic market for gasoline. …”
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Global Outsourcing of Professional Services by Seshasai, Satwik, Gupta, Amar

“…Using a multi-faceted framework for this study, this paper shows that very careful analysis is needed to establish the optimal level and structure for the 24-hour Knowledge Factory., one is faced with a corresponding need to examine the long-term ramifications on business and society. …”
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HSR as Transit: The continuing transportation-driven evolution of metropolitan form by Westrom, Ryan J., Sussman, Joseph M.

“…With high-speed rail (HSR) now often fulfilling a commuting function within an hour’s travel time from principal metropolitan cities, it becomes the latest in a long line of transportation technologies to elicit change in the metropolitan form of these cities. …”
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The Chicago VOC trading system : the consequences of market design for performance by Kosobud, Richard F.

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Role of Technology in Manufacturing Competitiveness by Eagar, Thomas W., Musso, Christopher

“…Stated more simply, a US manufacturing worker can produce four times as much per hour today as compared with fifty years ago. This gain has resulted from competitive pressures, the advent of new technologies, and a series of product and process innovations. …”
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Rethinking Real Time Electricity Pricing by Allcott, Hunt

“…Most US consumers are charged a near-constant retail price for electricity, despite substantial hourly variation in the wholesale market price. This paper evaluates the .rst program to expose residential consumers to hourly real time pricing (RTP). …”
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Time and location differentiated NOX control in competitive electricity markets using cap-and-trade mechanisms by Martin, Katherine C., Joskow, Paul L., Ellerman, A. Denny

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