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Evidence on the Impact of R&D and ICT Investment on Innovation and Productivity in Italian Firms
Hall, Bronwyn H. - 2014
as sources of relative innovation underperformance in Europe vis-à-vis the United States. In this paper we investigate R …) 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 …
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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 …
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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.; Ichniowski, Casey; Shaw, Kathryn L. - 2021
manufacturing - to study the effects of new IT on product innovation, production process improvements, employee skills and work …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013244133
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Growing Like China : Firm Performance and Global Production Line Position
Chor, Davin; Manova, Kalina; Yu, Zhihong - 2022
Global value chains have fundamentally transformed international trade and development in recent decades. We use matched firm-level customs and manufacturing survey data, together with Input-Output tables for China, to examine how Chinese firms position themselves in global production lines and...
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Assessing the Productivity of Information Technology Equipment in U.S. Manufacturing Industries
Morrison Paul, Catherine J.; Berndt, Ernst R. - 2021
In this paper we report results of an empirical assessment of the cost reducing impacts of recent dramatic increases in stocks of "high-tech" office and information technology equipment (0) using annual data from various two digit US manufacturing industries over the 1952-1986 time period. While...
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Wage and Productivity Dispersion in U.S. Manufacturing : The Role of Computer Investment
Dunne, Timothy; Haltiwanger, John; Foster, Lucia; … - 2021
By exploiting establishment-level data, this paper sheds new light on the source of the changes in the structure of production, wages, and employment that have occurred over the last several decades. Based on theoretical work by Caselli (1999) and Kremer and Maskin (1996), we focus on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013313321
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Return of the Solow Paradox? It, Productivity, and Employment in U.S. Manufacturing
Acemoglu, Daron - 2014
An increasingly influential "technological-discontinuity" paradigm suggests that IT-induced technological changes are rapidly raising productivity while making workers redundant. This paper explores the evidence for this view among the IT-using U.S. manufacturing industries. There is some...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013060261
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The Performance Effects of It-Enabled Knowledge Management Practices
Cappelli, Peter - 2010
The extensive literature on knowledge management spans several fields, but there are remarkably few studies that address the basic question as to whether knowledge management practices improve organizational performance. I examine that question using a national probability sample of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139559
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Securing Their Future? Entry and Survival in the Information Security Industry
Arora, Ashish - 2014
In this paper we study how the existence of a functioning market for technology differentially conditions the entry strategy and survival of different types of entrants, and the role of scale, marketing ability and technical assets. Markets for technology facilitate entry of firms that lack...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012751727
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Economic Experiments and Neutrality in Internet Access
Greenstein, Shane M. - 2014
Economic experiments yield lessons to firms that can be acquired only through market experience. Economic experiments cannot take place in a laboratory; scientists, engineers, or marketing executives cannot distill equivalent lessons from simply building a prototype or interviewing potential...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012751905