Traditional U.S. industries with higher firm-specific stock return and fundamentals performance heterogeneity use information technology (IT) more intensively and post faster productivity growth in the late 20th century. We argue that this mechanically reflects a wave of Schumpeter's creative...

Firms in the financial services industry have been faced with the dramatic and relatively recent emergence of new technology innovations, and process disruptions. The industry as a whole, and many new fintech start-ups are looking for new pathways to successful business models, the creation of...

Exact costing of productions and providing suitable and reliable information or reports for economic decision-making process are the main consideration in management accounting, meanwhile firms technological change causes the management accounting to change which we have tested the effects of...

In the modern era, the extent and character of technical change features prominently in discussions of productivity growth and movements in the competitiveness of manufacturing. While technical change is pervasive in modern manufacturing, it occurs unevenly. In this study, technical change is...

Domestic outsourcing has grown substantially in developed countries over the past two decades. This paper addresses the question of the technological drivers of this phenomenon by studying the impact of the staggered diffusion of broadband internet in France during the 2000s. Our results confirm...

Domestic outsourcing has grown substantially in developed countries over the past two decades. This paper addresses the question of the technological drivers of this phenomenon by studying the impact of the staggered diffusion of broadband internet in France during the 2000s. Our results confirm...

Bitcoin, exchangeable for legal tender, and blockchain, the novel form of digital ledger technology it is based on, are often confused and conflated. We make the case that, in some respects, this conflation is justified. The price action in Bitcoin is consistent with a prototyping phase of a new...

While a firm's success increasingly relies on technological innovation, little is known, however, about whether and how analysts utilize information about a firm's technological innovation for their information production. We construct technological expertise for each analyst-firm pair based on...

In modern economies, technological knowledge can flow between firms through various channels. We test an economic theory that firms most likely to benefit from such knowledge flows disclose information about their technologies more readily, probably to attract technologically compatible...

Product market power serves as a natural hedge against adverse shocks and competitive threats, thus increasing managerial risk tolerance of innovation investment. Consistent with that, we find that product market power is positively associated with firm innovation input and output. Additionally,...