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This study examines productivity and profitability of Italian manufacturing corporations in relation to IT usage and … productivity, although the significance of intensity variables depends on employment size and industry. The same occurs for some … the direction of causality between IT maturity, offshoring and productivity is also tentatively addressed: lagged …
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, process and organizational innovation), which ultimately feeds into a productivity equation. We find that ICT investment and … product innovation in manufacturing. The strongest productivity effects are derived from organizational innovation. We find …
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The paper investigates the effects of industry-level competition on firm-level innovation and productivity. We propose … productivity. We test the model on a firm-level panel dataset based on the last three waves of the innovation survey for Norway …
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Using CIS data from the Netherlands, Germany and France we test whether EU Framework programs do have effects on their participants' R&D input and innovative output. From our Heckman selection equations, we conclude that the FPs attract the "elite" of European innovators. The question is...
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general equilibrium model, this paper argues that climate change will negatively affect agricultural productivity in Africa …
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Management information system can be compared to the nervous system of a company. Its malfunction may cause adverse effects in many different areas of the company. Information Security Management is understood as tool of the information confidentiality, availability and integrity assurance. An...
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grounds of low productivity and economic viability. Sustainability of SMEs is argued to depend on improving labour … productivity (LP) through technological upgradation. In a developing economy this may be a costly proposition due to capital … scarcity. So, the effect of technological changes on productivity levels has to be estimated before taking such policies. This …
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productivity levels using new business micro data from the Business Research and Development and Innovation Survey (BRDIS) for the … practices to levels of productivity using regression analysis. The four innovation modes have a statistically signifcant … positive relation with the level of productivity, other things constant. The paper demonstrates the possibility of taking into …
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existing literature takes the approach of estimating production functions in which the total factor productivity (TFP) of the …
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This paper introduces the evolving understanding and conceptualization of innovation process models. From the discussion of different approaches towards the innovation process understanding and modeling two types of approaches to the evolution of innovation models are developed and discussed....
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