This paper analyses the impact of business process outsourcing (BPO) on firm productivity based on a comprehensive …-level productivity. The results are robust across different estimation techniques. … communication technologies. Outsourcing firms can concentrate on their core competencies. Additionally, they benefit from the …

In order to assess the productivity effects of information and communication technologies (ICT), regressions based on … this paper, various estimation biases and econometric strategies to overcome their sources are discussed. The effects are …?GMM estimator yields evidence for significant productivity effects of ICT which are substantially smaller though than those …

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

data and a binary instrumental variable to estimate the effect of outsourcing on productivity. … structural parameter and propose a simple two-step estimation procedure for it. Our estimator is consistent and robust against … biases that would prevail when assuming missingness at random. We implement the estimation procedure using firm-level survey …

number of national firm level studies on the innovation-productivity link have been conducted using new internationally …, innovation output and productivity, we find to a very large extent a common cross-country story for knowledge intensive …

The missing effect of investments of firms in information and communication technologies on productivity is studied by …) has a stronger effect on the quality of services than on the productivity of the IT-using firm. IT investment seems to be … especially the most recent generation of IT as indicated by the number of PCs used is the source of productivity growth whereas …

Productivity growth has been slow in many continental European countries over the last few decades, especially in … product market competition experience higher rates of productivity growth. We also find weak evidence for the notion that in … Germany?s bank-based system of internal control, ownership concentration is harmful for productivity growth. …

governance and market discipline on productivity growth. We find that firms under concentrated ownership tend to show … significantly higher productivity growth. Financial pressure from creditors influences productivity growth positively, particularly … for firms in financial distress. Regarding market discipline, productivity grows faster when competition on product …

estimates for an extended production function framework reveal significant productivity effects of ICT in the German service … productivity differentials between firms. …

of an ageing workforce, this paper measures the impact of changes in the age structure of establishments on productivity … methods. We find that establishment productivity increases with the share of employees until the age of 50-55 and only … account endogeneity, time dependencies, or crucial information correlated with age shares and productivity. Large standard …