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ICT-intensive firms are often found to have a better performance than their non-ICTintensive counterparts. Along with … investing in ICT capital they have to adapt their production and business processes in order to reap the potentials implied by … the use of ICT. Are these firms also more resilient in times of crisis? We study this question by exploiting a novel and …
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industries with varying degrees of ICT intensity. Intangible capital appears to be significantly more productive in ICT …-intensive sectors than in those that use little ICT. This finding remains robust across various alternative industry ICT intensity … measures and aligns with the prior firm-level studies that place emphasis on the complementary role of intangible assets in ICT …
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This paper analyzes the impact of information and communication technologies (ICT) on economic growth in developing … regressions confirm the positive relationship between ICT capital and GDP growth. The regressions for the subsamples of developing …, emerging and developed countries do not reveal statistically significant differences of the output elasticity of ICT between …
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We investigate whether the returns to mobile information and communication technology (ICT) in the workplace are …). Our regression analysis is based on a production function framework and exploits fine-grained firm survey data on ICT use … returns to mobile ICT are higher when TBW allows for discretion over when, where and how to perform work-related tasks. The …
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authority and ICT-enabled organizational changes). This paper analyzes the impact of organizational change as well as the impact … of the introduction of information and communication technology (ICT) on actual labor demand as well as on employment … all skill groups except for unskilled labor. New ICT and the share of training expenditures are primary forces behind OC …
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This paper analyzes the relationship between information and communication technology (ICT) and energy demand. We …. Using up to 2889 country-industry observations, we find that: (1) ICT capital is associated with a significant reduction in … energy demand. (2) This relationship differs with regard to different types of energy. ICT use is not significantly …
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During the last 20 years, R&D and innovation activities in the service sector have clearly increased. Especially …" of technological information within the economy. They are providers, purchasers or partners in the context of innovation …. A sound innovation capacity, especially knowledge, creativity, market and management skills let them become bridges for …
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The missing effect of investments of firms in information and communication technologies on productivity is studied by various recent papers (e.g. Oliner and Sichels 1994, Landauer 1995, Brynjolfsson and Hitt 1996). Several explanations are given for this missing link. Our paper deals with two...
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Green ICT innovation. We test two hypotheses: (1) Firms active in low-opportunity technological areas are less innovative … active in low-opportunity technological areas are less innovative but are more likely to switch from pure ICT innovation to … Green ICT innovation. …
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