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This paper considers the impact that technology has on firms' choices over organisational form, in particular whether to produce inhouse or outsource and offshore services, and firms' decision over the location of activity. Technology reduces the transaction and adjustment costs of moving...
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authority and ICT-enabled organizational changes). This paper analyzes the impact of organizational change as well as the impact … of the introduction of information and communication technology (ICT) on actual labor demand as well as on employment … all skill groups except for unskilled labor. New ICT and the share of training expenditures are primary forces behind OC …
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This paper examines the relationship between the use of advanced technologies such as ICT, and outcomes such as …
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-inflation growth due to the large diffusion of information and communication technologies (ICT). This paper looks into Europe … which compares the diffusion of ICT in various European countries. Section V presents findings of several empirical studies … on productivity growth in Europe which look into the relation between ICT spending and labour productivity growth …
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Technologies (ICT) in the Pakistani firms using the World Bank Enterprise Survey 2002-07. The paper considers various indicators of … human capital and measures of ICT adoption and diffusion. On-the-job training, manager's level of qualification and … size, sales and workers' compensation are also positively associated with the use of ICT. The findings show the importance …
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The question of the spatial impacts of the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has animated the intellectual … congested area where world-class ICT and high-tech industries cluster together. In theory, geographical agglomeration of … discusses how the use of ICT may alter the balance between centripetal and centrifugal forces and therefore the final …
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The question of the spatial impacts of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has animated intellectual and …-class ICT and high-tech industries cluster together. In theory, geographical agglomeration of economic activities results as an … equilibrium solution of a tension between centripetal and centrifugal forces. ICT has the potential to alter the balance between …
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Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) have become important tools topromote and realize a variety of public … goals and policies. The growing importance of ICT indaily life, business activities and govemance prompts the need to … consider the role of ICTmore explicitIy in urban administrations and policies. What are the city maker's expectationsabout ICT …
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This paper offers both a conceptual and an operationalmodel that aims to map out the causes and implicationsof ICT … describe and test the rela-tionships between perceptions of the city, policy makers'beliefs about ICT and the associated urban … ICT policy.According to the model, respondents that perceive theircity as having many urban functions (e …
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findings emphasize the role of a firm's absorptive capacity and its ICT competence in data-based innovation. It seems that …
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