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Understanding the relationship between information technology (IT) investments and productivity has been a challenge … from Information Technologies, the authors review the relevant research on IT and productivity, and try to identify the …
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This paper proposes a model where firms invest in secrecy to limit technological spillovers accruing to their competitors, in addition to investing in cost-reducing R&D. The main result of the paper is that increases in spillovers increase secrecy, suggesting that legal and strategic protection...
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This document presents the technological solutions supporting inter-organizational processes, as well as the leading suppliers on the market. Its purpose is not to present an "ideal"" architecture, but to sum up for the manager concepts usually used in technical outlets. The characteristics of...
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Small and medium enterprises have strengthened their importance during the last decades in most industrialized countries, including the United States, Germany, Japan and Canada. The province of Quebec makes no exception as firms of less than 200 employees generate a substantial portion of its...
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the impact of training on productivity decrease dramatically with age, suggesting that incentives for firms to invest in …
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subjects that are less productivity-enhancing. Nous estimons dans cet article les rendements de la formation parrainée par l …
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This paper introduces dynamics in the R&D to innovation and innovation to productivity relationships, which have mostly … conditional mean of labor productivity: through an observed binary indicator, an observed intensity variable or through the … Community Innovation Survey. The results provide evidence of robust unidirectional causality from innovation to productivity and …
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productivity. This paper addresses the Porter Hypothesis within a structural approach that allows us to test what is known in the … three types of innovations simultaneously and their synergy in affecting total factor productivity (TFP) performance. Using …
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This article aims to understand how public policies affect the behavior of agents in term of selectivity. In other words, we explain how the state of the labour market and, in particular qualification level of workers, affects technological choices of firms. Using a matching model in which...
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productivity by making agents more selective and jobs more complex. However, the impact on labour market participation is negative. …
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