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ICT, skills, and organisational change : evidence from a panel of Italian manufacturing firms
Giuri, Paola (contributor); Torrisi, Salvatore (contributor) - 2006
This paper explores how firms' skills and organizational change affect the returns from investments in ICT. Our work contributes to the literature by testing the hypothesis of complementarity in a panel of 540 Italian manufacturing firms during 1995-2000. By drawing on different statistical...
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Reshaping skills, industrial relations and social protection for the knowledge economy : evidence from Germany
Diessner, Sebastian; Durazzi, Niccolo; Hope, David - 2020
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From lean production to Industrie 4.0. : more autonomy for employees?
Butollo, Florian; Jürgens, Ulrich; Krzywdzinski, Martin - 2018
The article examines the relationship between lean production and Industrie 4.0 focusing on the question of autonomy in … the work process. In contrast to the claim made by official Industrie 4.0 concepts that the autonomy of the employees … Industrie 4.0 concepts, given the high levels of interdependence already achieved in production processes. …
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Technology development in transition : the case of Hungarian industry
Romijn, Henny - 1998
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Firm-level upgrading in developing countries
Verhoogen, Eric - 2021
In principle, firms in developing countries benefit from the fact that advanced technologies and products have already been developed in industrialized countries and can simply be adopted, a process often referred to as industrial upgrading. But for many firms this advantage remains elusive....
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Firm-Level Upgrading in Developing Countries
Verhoogen, Eric - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
In principle, firms in developing countries benefit from the fact that advanced technologies and products have already been developed in industrialized countries and can simply be adopted, a process often referred to as industrial upgrading. But for many firms this advantage remains elusive....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012696370
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Organizational change, skill formation, human capital measurement : evidence from Italian manufacturing firms
Antonelli, Gilberto; Antonietti, Roberto; Guidetti, Giovanni - 2009
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Control in the era of surveillance capitalism : an empirical investigation of Italian Industry 4.0 factories
Moro, Angelo; Rinaldini, Matteo; Staccioli, Jacopo; … - 2019
We explore the extent to which the current technological trend, dubbed Industry 4.0, might increase forms of control inside organisations, by focussing on pivotal firms in the so-called Italian Motor Valley currently embracing its adoption. We find that Industry 4.0 technologies open up great...
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Technological and organizational changes as determinants of the skill bias : evidence from a panel of Italian firms
Piva, Mariacristina (contributor);  … - 2004
Recent empirical literature has introduced the "kill Biased Organizational Change" hypothesis, according to which organizational change can be considered as one of the main causes of the skill bias (increase in the number of highly skiled workers) exhibited by manufacturing employment in...
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