Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 131
Cover Image
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
Cover Image
Information Technology and the Japanese Economy
Jorgenson, Dale W. - 2005
In this paper we compare sources of economic growth in Japan and the United States from 1975 through 2003, focusing on the role of information technology (IT). We have adjusted Japanese data to conform to U.S. definitions in order to provide a rigorous comparison between the two economies. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466870
Cover Image
The IT Revolution and the Globalization of R&D
Branstetter, Lee G. - 2018
three important phenomena: (1) the globalization of R&D, (2) the growing importance of software and IT to firm innovation … IT- and software-biased shift in innovation drove US MNCs abroad, and particularly drove them abroad to "new hubs" with … of US multinational R&D has reinforced the technological leadership of US-based firms in the information technology …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453013
Cover Image
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
Cover Image
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
Cover Image
The Real Effects of Modern Information Technologies
Goldstein, Itay - 2020
Modern information technologies have greatly facilitated timely dissemination of information to a broad base of investors at low costs. To examine their effects on the real economy, we exploit the staggered implementation of the EDGAR system from 1993 to 1996 as a shock to information...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481384
Cover Image
Economic Factors Underlying the Unbundling of Advertising Agency Services
Arzaghi, Mohammad - 2008
This paper addresses a longstanding puzzle involving the unbundling of services that has occurred over more than two decades in the U.S. advertising agency industry: How can the shift from the bundling to the unbundling of services be explained and what accounts for the slow pace of change?...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464302
Cover Image
The Adoption and Diffusion of Organizational Innovation : Evidence for the U.S. Economy
Lynch, Lisa M. - 2007
States during the 1990's, I examine the incidence and intensity of organizational innovation and the factors associated with … investments in organizational innovation. Past profits tend to be positively associated with organizational innovation. Employers … being part of a multi-establishment firm) are more likely to invest in organizational innovation. Investments in human …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465497
Cover Image
How Does Information Technology Really Affect Productivity? Plant-Level Comparisons of Product Innovation, Process Improvement and Worker Skills
Bartel, Ann P. - 2005
manufacturing - to study the effects of new IT on product innovation, production process improvements, employee skills and work …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466898
Cover Image
Hi-tech Innovation and Productivity Growth : Does Supply Create Its Own Demand?
Gordon, Robert J. - 2003
This paper argues that the late 1990s boom in ICT investment was unsustainable for both macro and micro reasons; we are unlikely again to witness an interval in which computer hardware investment grows at an annual rate greater than 30 percent for five straight years. Analysts who base their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469266