In this paper we analyze empirically the influence of firms' endogenous competencesin the existence, quality and results of the linkages between firms and different typesof agents. Using survey data from 170 firms belonging to the steel making andautomotive production networks in Argentina, we...

We examine the relationships between productivity growth, IT investment and organisational change (∆O) using UK firm data. Consistent with the small number of other micro studies we find (a) IT appears to have high returns in a growth accounting sense when ∆O is omitted; when ∆O is included...