This paper presents a firm-level analysis of the recent productivity slowdown in Italy. It applies Data Envelopment …). This decomposition is helpful in interpreting the nature of the observed productivity slowdown. Econometric regressions of …

. Based on e-business watch data for EU-4 (Germany, France, Italy and the United Kingdom) we find that the actual use of … enterprise resource planning and online procurement is positively correlated with labour productivity growth. Furthermore, we … between labour productivity growth and the percentage of enterprises with new or significantly changed organisational …