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Knowledge and economic progress: The role of social technologies
Eggertson, Thráinn - 2008
I focus on the independent role of social innovation in economic progress. Modern theory of economic growth and development emphasizes endowments, power, incentives, and physical technology, paying scant attention to knowledge of social systems as a scarce resource. I reverse these procedures by...
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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...
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Kompetenzentwicklung von Mitgliedern in Betriebsratsgremien als Träger*innen betrieblicher Transformationsprozesse
Krause, Friederike; Jacobs, Anne; Meyer, Rita; … - 2023
Die Study fokussiert die Herausforderungen betrieblicher Interessenvertreter*innen angesichts des beschleunigten Wandels von Arbeit. Gesellschaftliche Transformationsprozesse (u. a. Globalisierung, demografischer Wandel) und technische Innovationen generieren weitreichende Entwicklungsund...
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Organizational change, new information and communication technologies and the demand for labor in services
Falk, Martin - 2001
Between 1993 and 1995, the majority of German firms in services introduced new organizational practices (OC), in particular total quality management systems, certified ISO 9000, lean administration, flatter hierarchies, delegation of authority and ICT-enabled organizational changes). This paper...
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ICT, skills, and organisational change: Evidence from a panel of Italian manufacturing firms
Giuri, Paola; Torrisi, Salvatore; Zinovyeva, Natalia - 2005
This paper explores how firms' skills and organizational change affect the returns from investments in ICT. Our work contributes to the literature by testing the hypothesis of complementarity in a panel of 540 Italian manufacturing firms during 1995-2000. By drawing on different statistical...
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Age biased technical and organisational change, training and employment prospects of older workers
Behaghel, Luc; Caroli, Eve; Roger, Muriel - 2011
We analyse the role of training in mitigating the negative impact of technical and organizational changes on the employment prospects of older workers. Using a panel of French firms in the late 1990s, we first estimate wage bill share equations for different age groups. Consistently with what is...
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Technological Change, Organizational Change, and Job Turnover
Bauer, Thomas K.; Bender, Stefan - 2002
This paper uses a German employer-employee matched panel data set to investigate the effect of organizational and technological changes on gross job and worker flows. The empirical results indicate that organizational change is skill-biased because it reduces predominantly net employment growth...
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Effects of organizational change on firm productivity
Håkanson, Christina - 2009
An increasing use of IT facilitates firms to use more efficient organizational forms. Significant reorganizations of 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...
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Wissensgesellschaft als Herausforderung für ländlich-periphere Regionen: Beispiele aus Nordostdeutschland
Stein, Axel; Wiegand, Timm Sebastian; Dehne, Peter; … - 2016
Die Heuristik einer dreidimensionalen Wissensgesellschaft wird in diesem Band aufgegriffen und weiterentwickelt. Die … soziale, die ökonomische und die technische Dimension der Wissensgesellschaft werden im theoretischen Teil ausdifferenziert … Vielschichtigkeit der Wissensgesellschaft in ländlich-peripheren Räumen ab. Erste Konturen, wie die Wissensgesellschaft in diesen Räumen …
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Die Großregion: Ein grenzüberschreitender Berufsbildungsraum?
Dörrenbächer, H. Peter - In: Border Futures - Zukunft Grenze - Avenir Frontière: …, (pp. 286-302). 2018
Im Zusammenhang mit der Intensivierung des europäischen Integrationsprozesses, der damit verbundenen Zunahme grenzüberschreitender Beziehungen sowie infolge demografischer und ökonomischer Disparitäten zwischen benachbarten Grenzregionen hat die grenzüberschreitende berufliche Aus- und...
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