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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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investments, only a small growth in productivity was observed. This observations has been coined the productivity paradox. This … reveals strong presence of publication bias within ICT productivity literature and using mixed effect multilevel model …
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This study examines whether competition improves corporate performance in Korean economy. Market competition promotes managerial efforts for cost reduction and innovation, while market concentration enables managers to enjoy a "quiet life". The effect of competition can be substituted, to some...
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) on dynamics of total factor productivity (TFP) in 25 Sub-Saharan African countries using data covering the period 1980 …, while enhancing ICT overwhelmingly has net positive effects on productivity, the corresponding marginal effects are negative … thresholds at which ICT should be complemented with other macroeconomic policies for favorable outcomes on productivity dynamics …
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) is very high. Unfortunately, productivity levels in the region are also very low. This study investigates the importance … of information technology in influencing the effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) on total factor productivity (TFP … penetration, while the engaged TFP productivity dynamics are TFP, real TFP, welfare TFP, and real welfare TFP. The empirical …
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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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increasingly plays a differentiating role in productivity and adopting appropriate information sharing systems may contribute to … productivity perspective are studied. Moreover, a quantitative sensitivity analysis is presented in order to analyze the …
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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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business processes around IT capital can thereby boost productivity growth. The aim of this study is to empirically examine how … firm productivity growth is affected by organizational changes and investments in IT using a Difference … total factor productivity growth for firms that invested above median in IT and at the same time undertook organizational …
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Effects of R&D investment on frim/industry productivity have been investigated widely thanks to pioneering …
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