Productivity growth and in particular the significant acceleration of productivity growth in the US economy in the second half of the 1990’s, raised high expectations that the massive investment in ICT-capital goods had finally had its impact on the whole US economy. Numerous growth accounting...

The core purpose of the book is to account for the apparent discrepancy between the business benefits frequently attributed to the implementation ofElectronic Data Interchange and the relatively small number of actual adopters. To solve this problem, the book has been divided into two main...