Big Data Investment, Skills, and Firm Value

• Published in: Management science Vol. 60; no. 6; pp. 1452 - 1469
• Main Author: Tambe, Prasanna
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Linthicum INFORMS 01.06.2014; Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences
• Subjects: Analysis; Big Data; Business analytics; Business enterprises; Data analysis; Debt management; economics of IS; Employment; Firm value; Hadoop; Human capital; Hypotheses; Impact analysis; Information management; Information systems; Information technology; Innovation; Innovations; Investment pools; Investment value; Investments; IT policy and management; IT productivity; IT value; IT workforce; Labor market; Labor markets; Labor productivity; Labour market; management of IT human resources; Management science; Productivity; Productivity growth; Professionals; R&D; Research & development; Return on investment; Skills; Strategic management; strategic management of IT; Structured Query Language-SQL; Studies; technical skills; Technological change; Technological innovation; Technology application; U.S.A; Workforce; United States; United States > US

This paper analyzes how labor market factors have shaped early returns on big data investment using a new data source-the LinkedIn skills database. The data source enables firm-level measurement of the employment of workers with technical skills such as Hadoop, MapReduce, and Apache Pig. From 2006 t...