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Information technology and global sourcing
Fromenteau, Philippe - 2016
South. Offshoring to South however is subject to costly communication reflected by partially incomplete contracting. More …
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R&D Offshoring and Home Industry Productivity
de Rassenfosse, Gaétan - 2018
Offshoring R&D commonly invokes concerns regarding the loss of high value jobs and a hollowing out of technological … effect of R&D offshoring on industrial productivity in the home country using industry-level data for 18 OECD countries over … a 26-year period. Simultaneity between productivity and R&D offshoring is addressed by using foreign tax policy as an …
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The Effects of Production Offshoring on R&D and Innovation in the Home Country
Dachs, Bernhard; Ebersberger, Bernd; Kinkel, Steffen; … - 2013
This paper tests the assumption that offshoring of production activities leads to less innovation in the home country … offshoring firms employ more people in R&D and design, introduce more frequently new products, and invest more frequently in … advanced process technologies compared to non-offshoring firms. Concerns that offshoring may hurt innovation because of the …
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Innovation and information technology in services
Licht, Georg; Moch, Dietmar - 1997
The missing effect of investments of firms in information and communication technologies on productivity is studied by various recent papers (e.g. Oliner and Sichels 1994, Landauer 1995, Brynjolfsson and Hitt 1996). Several explanations are given for this missing link. Our paper deals with two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011440920
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Combining technology and work organization : an analysis of complementarity between IT and decentralization across firms of different size
Rasel, Fabienne - 2014
This paper examines whether information technology (IT) and decentralized work organization are complementary only for large firms or also for smaller firms. Empirical evidence, which suggests complementarity between IT and decentralization, is mainly based on large firms. Using data from a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010416339
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Power and Productivity : Institutions, Ideology, and Technology in Political Economy
Benkler, Yochai - 2020
Market democracies struggle with economic insecurity and growing inequality, presenting new threats to democracy. The revival of “political economy” offers a frame for understanding the relationship between productivity and justice in market societies. It reintegrates power and the social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012846016
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Innovation and Information Technology in Services
Licht, Georg; Moch, Dietmar - 1997
The missing effect of investments of firms in information and communication technologies on productivity is studied by various recent papers (e.g. Oliner and Sichels 1994, Landauer 1995, Brynjolfsson and Hitt 1996). Several explanations are given for this missing link. Our paper deals with two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297561
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Do Older Workers Lower IT-Enabled Productivity? Firm-Level Evidence from Germany
Bertschek, Irene; Meyer, Jenny - 2008
The paper provides empirical evidence for the question whether firms' ITenabled labour productivity is affected by the age structure of the workforce. We apply a production function approach with heterogenous labour to firmlevel data from German manufacturing and services industries. We find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298711
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Is technological change really skills-biased? : firm-level evidence of the complementarities between ICT and workers' education
Bolli, Thomas; Pusterla, Filippo - 2019
This paper extends and refines the concept of ICT-driven skills-biased technological change by disentangling the effects of information technologies (IT) and communication technologies (CT). Guided by the theory that IT and CT differently affect firms' production processes, we investigate the...
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Trust-based work time and the productivity effects of mobile information technologies in the workplace
Viete, Steffen; Erdsiek, Daniel - 2018
We investigate whether the returns to mobile information and communication technology (ICT) in the workplace are contingent on granting employees autonomy over the structure of their workday through trust-based work time arrangements (TBW). Our regression analysis is based on a production...
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