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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 … 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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Data Analysis, Communication, and Control
Welsch, Roy E. - 1974
The role of data analysis in communication, persuasion, and decision-making is discussed. Some problems with current … data-analysis practice are presented, including communication, complex models, large data bases, one-pass processing, rigid …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479059
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The distinct effects of Information Technology and Communication Technology on firm organization
Bloom, Nicholas - 2009
Empirical studies on information communication technologies (ICT) typically aggregate the "information" and … "communication" components together. We show theoretically and empirically that these have very different effects on the empowerment …' lower level agents. Conversely, technologies reducing communication costs substitute agent's knowledge for directions from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463674
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Organizing Offshoring : Middle Managers and Communication Costs
Antràs, Pol - 2006
that the positive effect of middle skills on offshoring is weaker, the more advanced are communication technologies in the …
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Algorithms and the Changing Frontier
Agwara, Hezekiah - 2014
technological innovation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458625
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Patents as Quality Signals? The Implications for Financing Constraints on R&D
Czarnitzki, Dirk - 2014
Information about the success of a new technology is usually held asymmetrically between the research and development (R&D)-performing firm and potential lenders and investors. This raises the cost of capital for financing R&D externally, resulting in financing constraints on R&D especially for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458720
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Creative Destruction and Firm-Specific Performance Heterogeneity
Chun, Hyunbae - 2007
Traditional U.S. industries with higher firm-specific stock return and fundamentals performance heterogeneity use information technology (IT) more intensively and post faster productivity growth in the late 20th century. We argue that elevated firm performance heterogeneity mechanically reflects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465644
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Management as a Technology?
Bloom, Nicholas - 2016
Are some management practices akin to a technology that can explain firm and national productivity, or do they simply reflect contingent management styles? We collect data on core management practices from over 11,000 firms in 34 countries. We find large cross-country differences in the adoption...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456349
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Quality Ladders and Product Cycles
Grossman, Gene M. - 1989
We develop a two-country model of endogenous innovation and imitation in order to study the interactions between these … maximizing entrepreneurs. The steady-state equilibrium is characterized by constant aggregate rates of innovation and imitation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012475836
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What Makes Them Tick? Employee Motives and Firm Innovation
Sauermann, Henry - 2008
to benefit innovation more than extrinsic motives such as pay …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464204