The purpose of this study is to examine what kind of corporate reforms are effective in accordance with investment in information technology. Based on the nation-wide survey data from 3141 firms, logit model analysis revealed three observations. First, paperless transactions make the business...

The purpose of this study is to investigate how corporate reforms in organizational structures and human resource management affect the effective use of information technology based on the nation-wide survey data from 3141 firms. Multiple comparison analysis revealed four observations. First,...

The purpose of this paper is to simulate Japan's economic growth path to 2020 based on the macro econometric models that incorporate IT capital stock and network effects. For these purpose we build three types of macro econometric model modifying a model prepared by Japan Center for Economic...

The purpose of this paper is to conduct an empirical analysis on the impact of Japan's IT investment based on the revised macroeconomic data we build in this paper using 2005 Input-Output Table published March 2009. For this purpose, we build the time series data of Japan's IT investment and...

In this paper we conduct an international comparison about the effective outcome of investment in information technology and corresponding corporate reforms. Based on an international survey of 18,500 firms in Japan, the United States, Germany, and South Korea, we divide effective respondent of...

The purpose of this paper is to examine the industry-level impact of investment in information technology. For this purpose we firstly create time series data of IT investment, and consequently, the IT capital stock by 22 industries. Secondly, we estimate two types of production function models...

The purpose of this paper is to review the global discussions on the social-economic impact of ICTs over the last two decades and then to observe how ICTs have been diffusing around the world based on the available long-run dataset. For this purpose, we surveyed major projects conducted by...

The purpose of this study is to conduct an international comparison on corporate reforms and its effectiveness leveraged by introducing information technology based on the multinational survey of 18,500 firms (effective response from 1,288 firms) in Japan, United States, Germany, and Korea....