How does information technology (IT) affect the organization of police work? How does it in turn affect police crime …-fighting effectiveness? To answer these questions, we construct a new panel data set of police departments covering 1987-2003. We find that … while IT adoption had substantial effects on a wide range of police organizational practices, it had, by itself, a …

IT are more productive, and if heavier users of IT are indeed more productive, how does this increase in productivity …

The US has experienced a sustained increase in productivity growth since the mid-1990s, particularly in sectors that … intensively use information technologies (IT). This has not occurred in Europe. If the US “productivity miracle” is due to a … abroad. This paper shows in fact that US multinationals operating in the UK do have higher productivity than non …

The literature on within-firm organizational change and productivity suggests that firms can make more efficient use of … technologies and that joint adoption leads to higher productivity. Without having introduced complementary organizational … innovations, the adoption of CO2 reducing technologies is associated with lower productivity. …

be reformed through incremental administrative change. The police department of the state of Rajasthan, India … collaborated with researchers at US and Indian universities to design and implement four interventions to improve police … performance and the public’s perception of the police in 162 police stations (covering over one-fifth of the State’s police …

worker productivity, what the team basis of the scheme implies, and the impact of the differential measurement precision. We …