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productivity but the combination of IT and decentralization does not yield a productivity premium. Contrarily, for the sample of … larger firms, the results show that the productivity of IT depends positively on decentralization. The findings suggest that …
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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 …
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during the crisis in 2008 and 2009, ICT-intensive firms were hit less hard with respect to their productivity. This holds in … innovations during that period which could explain their better productivity performance compared to non-ICT intensive firms. …
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productivity growth. The sectoral setting further allows us to identify the differential impacts of intangible capital across …
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This paper studies the impact of the adoption of ICT on the economic performance at the firm level, considering explicitly the interaction of adopting firms within the intermediate input market in Germany. The paper identifies and quantifies the importance of adoption externalities and knowledge...
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development as well as productivity and firm performance. Eventually, the survey does not only allow the identification of main …
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The literature on within-firm organizational change and productivity suggests that firms can make more efficient use of … technologies and that joint adoption leads to higher productivity. Without having introduced complementary organizational … innovations, the adoption of CO2 reducing technologies is associated with lower productivity. -- Firm behavior ; technical change …
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Using a unique German firm-level data set, we provide empirical evidence for a productivity sorting along two …
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In this paper it is tested which of the various alternative approaches for constructing knowledge spillover pools suggested in existing literature measures the extent to which a firm can costlessly receive external knowlegde best. Since knowledge spillovers are unmeasurable, a 'goodness of fit'...
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We investigate whether the returns to mobile information and communication technology (ICT) in the workplace are contingent on granting employees autonomy over the structure of their workday through trust-based work time arrangements (TBW). Our regression analysis is based on a production...
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