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The Great Realignment: How the Changing Technology of Technological Change in Information Technology Affected the US and Japanese IT Industry, 1983-1999
Arora, Ashish; Branstetter, Lee; Drev, Matej - 2009
This paper empirically shows that innovation in Information Technology (IT) has become increasingly dependent on and … intertwined with innovation in software. This change in the nature of IT innovation has had differential effects on the …’s contribution in IT innovation and the differential innovation performance of US and Japanese electronics, semiconductors, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009441225
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Agency Influences on Risk Reduction and Operating Performance: An Empirical Investigation Among Strategic Groups
Veliyath, Rajaram; Ferris, Stephen P. - 1997
The relationships between risk and performance were tested employing within and between analyses at the level of strategic groups in three different industries. As hypothesized, systematic risk did not exhibit a consistent relationship with performance. By contrast, all of the total...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009459032
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Industrial Competitiveness and Technological Advancement: Debate Over Government Policy
Schacht, Wendy H. - Resources, Science, and Industry Division - 2006
There is ongoing interest in the pace of U.S. technological advancement due to its influence on U.S. economic growth, productivity, and international competitiveness. Because technology can contribute to economic growth and productivity increases, congressional interest has focused on how to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009475014
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Manufacturing technology policy and deployment of processing innovations
Ettlie, John E. - 1988
This is a report of a study on the evolution of manufacturing technology policy during the deployment of domestic advanced manufacturing systems in thirty-four plants and two panels of data collection separated by one year. Changing firm environment was significantly correlated with pioneering...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009477397
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Gestaltung von Innovationsprozessen in Virtuellen Organisationen durch Kooperationsorientierte Netzwerkanalyse
Eschenbächer, Jens - 2007
Distributed innovation processes are considered as a new option to handle both the complexity and the speed in which … new products and services need to be prepared. Indeed most research on innovation processes was focused on multinational … companies with an intra-organisational perspective. The phenomena of innovation processes in networks - with an inter …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468261
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LABOR PRODUCTIVITY GROWTH AND CONVERGENCE IN THE KANSAS FARM SECTOR: A TRIPARTITE DECOMPOSITION USING THE DEA APPROACH
Mugera, Amin W.; Langemeier, Michael R. - 2008
The objective of this paper is to analyze sources of labor productivity growth in the Kansas farm sector over the period 1993-2006 for a sample of 668 farms. The nonparametric production frontier method is used to decompose labor productivity growth into three components: (1) technological...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009443295
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Investments in energy technological change under uncertainty
Shittu, Ekundayo - 2009
This dissertation addresses the crucial problem of how environmental policy uncertainty influences investments in energy technological change. The rising level of carbon emissions due to increasing global energy consumption calls for policy shift. In order to stem the negative consequences on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009467959
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Skill-Biased Transition: The Role of Markets, Institutions, and Technological Change
Peter, Klara Sabirianova - 2003
This study attempts to explain why the transition to a market economy is skill-biased. It shows unequivocal evidence on increased skill wage premium and supply of skills in transition economies. It examines whether similar skill–favoring shifts in the Russian and U.S. economies are driven by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009477147
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Adjustment Costs, Learning-by-Doing, and Technology Adoption Under Uncertainty
Pavlova, Anna - 2002
We consider a variety of vintage capital models of a firm?s choice of technology under uncertaintyin the presence of adjustment costs and technology-specific learning. Similar models have beenstudied in a deterministic setting. Part of our objective is to examine the robustness of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009432805
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A New Measure of the Producer Welfare Effects of Technological Change
Bullock, David S. - 2011
It is well recognized that the statistical reliability of the conventional method of estimating the effects of technological change on producer welfare is often quite poor. I present a method that enhances the statistical reliability of such estimates. I emphasize that when measuring the welfare...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009444347