Matt Thatcher (Publications)

1. Cha, H., Pingry, D., Thatcher, M. (forthcoming). “Disrupting the Knowledge Supply Chain: An Organizational Learning Model of IT Offshore Outsourcing.” MIS Quarterly.

2. Cha, H., Pingry, D., Thatcher, M. (forthcoming). “What Determines IT Investment Priorities?” Communications of the ACM.

3. Thatcher, M., Clemons, E. (forthcoming). “Bundling Economics under Information Asymmetries in the Individual Health Insurance Market.” Journal of Information Technology Theory and Application.

4. Thatcher, M., Pingry, D. (2007). “Software Patents – The Good, the Bad, and the Messy.” Communications of the ACM 50(10) 47-52.

5. Thatcher, M., Pingry, D. (2007). “Modeling the IT Value Paradox.” Communications of the ACM 50(8) 41-45.

6. Thatcher, M., Kim, T., Pingry D. (2006). “Welfare Analysis of Alternative Patent Policies for Software Innovations.” Decision Support Systems 41(4) 803-823.

7. Thatcher, M., Pingry, D. (2004). “An Economic Model of Product Quality and IT Value.” Information Systems Research 15(3) 268-286.

8. Thatcher, M., Pingry, D. (2004). “Understanding the Business Value of IT Investments: Theoretical Evidence from Alternative Market and Cost Structures.” Journal of Management Information Systems 21(2) 61-85.

9. Clemons, E., Hitt, L., Gu, B., Thatcher, M., Weber, B. (2002). “Impacts of E-Commerce and Enhanced Information Endowments on Financial Services: A Quantitative Analysis of Transparency, Differential Pricing, and Disintermediation.” Journal of Financial Services Research 22(1) 73-90.

10. Thatcher, M., Oliver, J. (2001). “The Impact of Technology on Product Quality and Firm Profits and Productivity.” Journal of Management Information Systems 18(2) 17-45.

11. Thatcher, M., Clemons, E. (2000). “Managing the Costs of Informational Privacy: Pure Bundling as a Strategy in the Individual Health Insurance Market.” Journal of Management Information Systems 17(2) 29-57.

12. Clemons, E., Thatcher, M. (1997). “Evaluating Alternative Information Regimes in the Private Health Insurance Industry: Managing the Social Cost of Private Information.” Journal of Management Information Systems 14(2) 9-31.

13. Clemons, E., Thatcher, M., Row, M. (1995). “Identifying Sources of Reengineering Failures: A Study of the Behavioral Factors Contributing to Reengineering Risks.” Journal of Management Information Systems 12(2) 9-36.

Papers Under Review

14. Thatcher, M., Pingry, D. (2007). “A Model of Optimal Software Patent Policy.” (under review at Journal of Law and Economics).

15. Thatcher, M., Cha, H., Pingry, D. (2007). “A Model of Optimal Offshoring Rate.” (under review at the Workshop on Information Systems and Economics).

Work in Progress

16. Cha, H., Pingry, D., and Thatcher, M. “The IT Value Paradox: Evidence from the Business Leaders Confidence Index Panel Survey.”

17. Thatcher, M., Pingry, D. “An Empirical Study of IT Value: Determining the Role of IT Characteristics, Cost Structure, and Market Structure.”

18. Thatcher, M. “An Empirical Study of IT Value in the Hotel Industry.”

19. Thatcher, M., Pingry, D. “Patent Leapfrogging in a Vertical Product Differentiation Model.”

20. Thatcher, M., Pingry, D. “Do Stringent Novelty Requirements for Software Patents Increase R&D Intensity and Social Welfare?”

21. Thatcher, M., Pingry, D. “Economic Theory of Software Patent Protection Policy: A Review.”

22. Cha, H., Pingry, D., Thatcher, M. “Modeling the Impacts of Outsourcing Decisions on Firm Knowledge and Costs.”

23. Cha, H., Pingry, D., Thatcher, M. “A Learning Model of Optimal Offshoring Rate.”

24. Cha, H., Pingry, D., Thatcher, M. “A Real Options Framework for IT Offshoring.”

Book Chapters and Other Publications

25. Clemons, E., Thatcher, M. (forthcoming). “Information Asymmetry, Newly Vulnerable Markets, and the Competitive Advantage of New Entrants: Capital One Financial.” (accepted for publication as a book chapter in Advances in Management Information Systems, Rob Kauffman (ed.), ME Sharpe).

26. Clemons, E., Hitt, L., Gu, B., Thatcher, M., Weber, B. (2002). “Impacts of E-Commerce and Enhanced Information Endowments on Financial Services: Transparency, Differential Pricing, and Disintermediation.” Journal of Financial Transformation vol. 4.

27. Clemons, E., M. Thatcher, Materna, R. (1997). “Scenario Planning for Corporate Real Estate Managers: Strategic Implications for a Changing Business Environment.” The Research Bulletin (in the series by the IDRC Foundation) n(15) 1-22.

Refereed Conference Papers/Presentations

28. Thatcher, M. and D. Pingry, “Determining Optimal Software Patent Design”, The Fourteenth Workshop on Information Systems Economics, College Park, MD, December 11 – 12, 2004. (no proceedings)

29. Thatcher, M., “The Impact of Technology on Product Design, Productivity, and Profits: A Duopoly Model of Price-Quality Competition”, Proceedings of the Thirty-Seventh Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (CD/ROM), January 5 – 8, 2004, Computer Society Press, 2004, 10 pages. http://csdl.computer.org/comp/proceedings/hicss/2004/2056/08/205680216c.pdf

30. Thatcher, M. and J. Oliver, “The Impact of Information Technology on Quality Improvement, Productivity, and Profits: An Analytical Model of a Monopolist”, Proceedings of the Thirty-Fourth Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, (CD/ROM), January 3 – 6, 2001, Computer Society Press, 2001, 10 pages. http://csdl.computer.org/comp/proceedings/hicss/2001/0981/08/09818055.pdf

31. Kim, T., Thatcher, M., and J. Wooders, “Connection Quality and the Pricing of Internet Services”, Proceedings of The 5^th Informs Conference on Information Systems and Technology (CD/ROM), November 2000.

32. Kim, T. and Thatcher, M., “Determining Optimal Decisions for Investing in Connection Quality and Pricing Internet Services: An Economic Model of Duopoly Competition Between Internet Service Providers”, Proceedings of the Americas Conference on Information Systems, August 10 – 13, 2000.

33. Thatcher, M. and E. Clemons, “Managing the Costs of Informational Privacy: Bundling as a Strategy in the Individual Health Insurance Market”, Proceedings of the Thirty-Third Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, (CD/ROM), January 4 – 7, 2000, Computer Society Press, 10 pages. http://csdl.computer.org/comp/proceedings/hicss/2000/0493/07/04937060.pdf

34. Clemons, E. and M. Thatcher, “Capital One: Information-Based Strategy in Newly Vulnerable Markets”, Proceedings of the Thirty-First Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, January 6 – 9, 1998, Computer Society Press, 1998, Vol. VI, pp. 311-320.

35. Thatcher, M. and E. Clemons, “Restoring Pooling in a Market with Extreme Information Asymmetries: Bundling as a Strategy in the Individual Health Insurance Market”, The Eighth Workshop on Information Systems and Economics, New York, NY, December 11 – 12, 1998. (no proceedings)

36. Clemons, E., Thatcher, M., Blecherman, B., and D. Croson, “Information Technology and Information Asymmetry: The Future of Private Individual Health Insurance”, Proceedings of the Thirtieth Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, January 7-10, 1997, Computer Society Press, 1997, Vol. III, pp. 240 – 248.

37. Clemons, E. and M. Thatcher, “Models of Varying Information Conditions in Individual Health Insurance: Simulation Results”, The Sixth Workshop on Information Systems and Economics (WISE), Cleveland, Ohio, December 14-15, 1996. (no proceedings)

38. Clemons, E., Thatcher, M., and M. Row, “An Integrative Framework for Identifying and Managing Risks Associated with Large Scale Reengineering Efforts”, Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, January 3 – 6, 1995, Computer Society Press, 1995, Vol. IV, pp. 960-969.

Invited Presentations / Seminars

39. “A Model of Optimal Software Patent Policy”, 20^th Anniversary Research Symposium on Competitive Strategy, Economics and IS symposium at the 40^th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, January 4 – 7, 2007.

40. “A Model of Optimal Software Patent Policy”, Temple University, December 2005.

41. “A Model of Optimal Software Patent Policy”, Butler University November 2005.

42. “Determining Optimal Software Patent Design”, MIS Brown Bag Seminar, University of Arizona, Spring 2005.

43. “Welfare Implications of Alternative Software Patent Policies”, MIS Fall Conference on Managing IT in Networked Organizations, University of Arizona, October 24, 2003.

44. “Technology Pays But Does It Enhance Productivity? The Impact of Technology on Product Quality, Production Costs, and the Economic Performance of the Firm”, MIS Brown Bag Seminar, University of Arizona, Spring 2001.

45. “Managing the Costs of Informational Privacy: Pure Bundling as a Strategy in the Individual Health Insurance Market”, MIS Brown Bag Seminar, University of Arizona, Spring 2000.