larger firms, the results show that the productivity of IT depends positively on decentralization. The findings suggest that … large firms or also for smaller firms. Empirical evidence, which suggests complementarity between IT and decentralization …, is mainly based on large firms. Using data from a sample of 3292 SMEs and of 598 larger firms from the manufacturing and …

?intensive firms. Comparing the impacts on productivity and wage costs shows that ICT raise the profitability of training high …

estimated in order to explore differences in labor productivity between IT outsourcing and non-IT outsourcing firms. This … positively affecting firms? labor productivity. An additional analysis indicates that IT outsourcing, in the medium-term, has a … IT outsourcing to affect any factor of the production function. Estimation results show that IT outsourcing firms produce …

Using panel data for German and Dutch firms from the services sector, this paper analyses the importance of ICT capital … deepening and innovation for productivity. We employ a model that takes into account that innovation and ICT use may be … complementary. The results show that the contribution of ICT capital deepening is raised when firms combine ICT use and …

productivity differentials between firms. … firms with innovative experience. In an analysis based on firm?level panel data covering the period 1994?99, system GMM … estimates for an extended production function framework reveal significant productivity effects of ICT in the German service …

In order to assess the productivity effects of information and communication technologies (ICT), regressions based on … illustrated on the basis of a representative set of panel data for German service firms. The application of a suited SYS …?GMM estimator yields evidence for significant productivity effects of ICT which are substantially smaller though than those …

manufacturing productivity growth. There is no strong evidence in the literature on the existence of such link. Our work, however … productivity using firm-level data. First, a broader definition of innovation input is used in which research and development is … analysis is based on larger and more representative samples of firms including small firms. Finally, an econometric framework …

Productivity growth has been slow in many continental European countries over the last few decades, especially in … empirical evidence is sparse, in particular at the level of individual firms. In this paper, we aim to close this gap with an … manufacturing firms over the 1986-94 period, we find that firms operating in industries which are characterized by more intensive …

We analyze the productivity effects of environmental (green) investment as well as of environmental expenditures and … investment positively impinges upon production growth as a productivity driver. We thus conclude that environmental regulation … should stimulate investment in order to be compatible with economic goals such as productivity. …