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ICT, R&D and Organizational Innovation : Exploring Complementarities in Investment and Production
Mohnen, Pierre - 2018
This paper examines whether there are complementarities between investments in ICT, R&D and organizational innovation … because joint investments lead to higher TFP growth than individual investments. ICT earns on average an expected rate of … return of 9.7%, followed by 6% to 7% on organizational innovation and a modest 1.4% to 1.8% on R&D in services and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480697
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The Real Effects of Modern Information Technologies
Goldstein, Itay - 2020
Modern information technologies have greatly facilitated timely dissemination of information to a broad base of investors at low costs. To examine their effects on the real economy, we exploit the staggered implementation of the EDGAR system from 1993 to 1996 as a shock to information...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481384
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Economic Factors Underlying the Unbundling of Advertising Agency Services
Arzaghi, Mohammad - 2008
This paper addresses a longstanding puzzle involving the unbundling of services that has occurred over more than two decades in the U.S. advertising agency industry: How can the shift from the bundling to the unbundling of services be explained and what accounts for the slow pace of change?...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464302
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The Adoption and Diffusion of Organizational Innovation : Evidence for the U.S. Economy
Lynch, Lisa M. - 2007
States during the 1990's, I examine the incidence and intensity of organizational innovation and the factors associated with … investments in organizational innovation. Past profits tend to be positively associated with organizational innovation. Employers … being part of a multi-establishment firm) are more likely to invest in organizational innovation. Investments in human …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465497
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How Does Information Technology Really Affect Productivity? Plant-Level Comparisons of Product Innovation, Process Improvement and Worker Skills
Bartel, Ann P. - 2005
manufacturing - to study the effects of new IT on product innovation, production process improvements, employee skills and work …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466898
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Hi-tech Innovation and Productivity Growth : Does Supply Create Its Own Demand?
Gordon, Robert J. - 2003
This paper argues that the late 1990s boom in ICT investment was unsustainable for both macro and micro reasons; we are … that supply does not create its own demand. Yet a failure of ICT investment to revive to the ebullient growth performance … conventional analyses have exaggerated the contribution of ICT investment to the post-1995 productivity performance. Productivity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469266
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Innovating Standards Through Informal Consortia : The Case of Wireless Telecommunications
Delcamp, Henry R. - 2012
We empirically examine the effects of industry consortia on the coordination of innovation strategies of the members … enables influencing peers' innovation strategies related to compatibility standards …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460481
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Evidence on the Impact of R&D and ICT Investment on Innovation and Productivity in Italian Firms
Hall, Bronwyn H. - 2012
) that has been modified to include ICT investment and R&D as the two main inputs into innovation and productivity. We find … that R&D and ICT are both strongly associated with innovation and productivity, with R&D being more important for … innovation, and ICT investment being more important for productivity. For the median firm, rates of return to both investments …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460606
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Heterogeneity and the Dynamics of Technology Adoption
Ryan, Stephen P. - 2011
We estimate the demand for a videocalling technology in the presence of both network effects and heterogeneity. Using a unique dataset from a large multinational firm, we pose and estimate a fully dynamic model of technology adoption. We propose a novel identification strategy based on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461404
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Privacy and Innovation
Goldfarb, Avi - 2011
the extent and direction of data-based innovation. We also show that the impact of privacy regulation can be extremely … heterogeneous. Therefore, we argue that digitization means that privacy policy is now a part of innovation policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461534