small or negative growth effects found in early studies of the effects of IT on productivity growth, as well as the positive …

the productivity of IT became known as the 'productivity paradox'. As Robert Solow, the Nobel laureate economist stated … "we see computers everywhere except in the productivity statistics". An important stream of research conducted all over … understand the impact of Information Technology adoption on the productivity of those firms. Using data from two surveys …

This paper examines the impact of investment in knowledge-based capital on firm productivity. The analysis is based on … and above other factors, an increase in investment in knowledge-based capital of 10 per cent increases firm productivity … by 2 per cent. The research results indicate that productivity gains linked to investment in KBC are larger for Irish …

because the benefits that accrue to other franchises from its investment (horizontal externalities) are not accounted for in … its investment decision. Ownership of customers is a combination of identifying individual cus­tomers with individual … investments, the levels of investment that are chosen by franchises may be increased, although not to the levels that would occur …

In this paper, we estimate the value of an Information Communication Technology (ICT) investment opportunity, modeled …. So far in the ICT literature, competition modeling is mainly focusing on duopoly market conditions, where investment … provide a ROs model, which estimates the value of a future investment opportunity when competitive entry can take part of the …

research during the last decade. It is a flexible method to value investment opportunities and to derive optimal timing of …

investments, only a small growth in productivity was observed. This observations has been coined the productivity paradox. This … reveals strong presence of publication bias within ICT productivity literature and using mixed effect multilevel model …