Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 310
Cover Image
Adoption and diffusion of health information technology: The case of primary care clinics
Callaway, Brant; Ghosal, Vivek - 2012
We empirically examine the determinants of adoption of information technology by primary healthcare clinics using a … large and complex market. Our study generates several interesting results related to the adoption and diffusion of Health … Information Technology (HIT), including: (1) the adoption probabilities vary considerably by the specific type of clinic; (2) in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010288238
Cover Image
American Economic Growth in the Information Age
Jorgenson, Dale W. - In: CESifo Forum 02 (2001) 3, pp. 14-22
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011695660
Cover Image
Information technology and the US productivity revival: What do the industry data say?
Stiroh, Kevin J. - 2001
This paper examines the link between information technology (IT) and the U.S. productivity revival in the late 1990s. Industry-level data show a broad productivity resurgence that reflects both the production and the use of IT. The most IT-intensive industries experienced significantly larger...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010283304
Cover Image
Who lives in the c-suite? Organizational structure and the division of labor in top management
Guadalupe, Maria; Li, Hongyi; Wulf, Julie M. - 2012
This paper shows that top management structures in large US firms radically changed since the mid-1980s. While the number of managers reporting directly to the CEO doubled, the growth was driven primarily by functional managers rather than general managers. Using panel data on senior management...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287681
Cover Image
Innovation and Adoption of Electronic Business Technologies
Sülzle, Kai - 2007
This paper presents a duopoly model of e-business technology adoption. A leader and a follower benefit from a new … ebusiness technology with uncertain quality depending on its innovation and adoption cost and both firms' adoption timing. When … innovation and adoption require large set-up costs, the leader favors quick adoption by the follower. The follower prefers either …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010296814
Cover Image
Use of and attitudes towards new technologies of persons 50+ in Austria
Halmdienst, Nicole; Radhuber, Michael - 2016
A dynamic new field for health related technologies has emerged over the past decade. Many innovations aim at assisting elderly persons in monitoring and managing their personal health status. Other technologies support these persons in their activities of daily life, and make them feel safe and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011615048
Cover Image
Documenting the digital transformation of African agriculture: Use and impact of digital technologies among agricultural intermediaries
Baumüller, Heike; Ikpi, Ubi; Jumpah, Emmanuel Tetteh; … - 2022
their work, much more so than the low adoption rates of D4Ag solutions would suggest. Mobile phones clearly dominate the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014374274
Cover Image
IT, Organizational Change and Wages
Spitz, Alexandra; Bertschek, Irene - 2003
In this paper we analyze the impact of information technology and organizational changes on wages using individual level data for 1998/1999. The average impact of IT use on wages turns out to be five to six percent, however, the effects differ across different IT components. Unless employees use...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297336
Cover Image
Innovation and Information Technology in Services
Licht, Georg; Moch, Dietmar - 1997
sector. Using data from a survey of innovative activities in services we show that investment in information technology (IT …, data of the German IT survey point towards the need to differentiate between types of IT investment. It is shown that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297561
Cover Image
Workers' skill level and information technology: evidence from German service firms
Falk, Martin; Seim, Katja - 1999
This paperanalyses the link between human capitaland information technology(IT ) in the service production process. The analysis is based on 1994 cross-sectional data for 1929 German. Firms drawn from the first wave of the Mannheim Service Innovation Panel (MIP-S). Factor demand functions are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297616