developing such an evaluation instrument is the so called “IT productivity paradox”: Empirical studies do not yield direct … positive relationships between the intensity of IT-usage and business productivity. The paper introduces explanations for the … productivity paradox and discusses assumptions on the productive use of IT. This discussion serves as a basis for the formulation …

The slowdown in productivity growth in most developed countries in recent years have been puzzling. We attempted to … innovations in both hardware and software have indirectly contributed to the reduction in aggregate productivity levels in the US … productivity level if these indexes were used instead of official price indexes. We extended the research done by Byrne, Oliner and …