Welcome to Barter

Barter is a platform inside an organizational boundary for matching problems to solutions. Our goal is to apply better theories to creating and managing a knowledge market in order to improve organizational desgin, generate information at higher rates, and track the gains in productivity that should result.

A Research Summary

We are exploring the creation of Internal Knowledge Markets, with a goal of bringing an electronic, distributed market (decentralized information creation) to a firm or a laboratory in an effort to both measure the value of knowledge created and link this to productivity and/or profits. A key advantage of this study will be a direct appeal to information economic theory to design an information market. In particular, we will appeal to two-sided network theory, principles of information asymmetry, and price theory. We seek to bring the rigor of this discipline to real-world applications, and measure the results.