Starting in 1995, productivity growth took off in the U.S. economy. In Wired for Innovation, Erik Brynjolfsson and Adam Saunders describe how information technology directly or indirectly created the lion's share of this productivity surge, reversing decades of slow growth. They argue that the...

A wave of business innovation is driving the productivity resurgence in the U.S. economy. In Wired for Innovation, Erik Brynjolfsson and Adam Saunders describe how information technology directly or indirectly created this productivity explosion, reversing decades of slow growth. They argue that...

We assess the value of IT-related intangible assets and then use data on business practices and management capabilities to understand how this value is distributed across firms. Using a panel of 127 firms over the period 2003-2006, we replicate and extend the Brynjolfsson, Hitt and Yang (2002)...

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Technology, Innovation, and Productivity in the Information Age -- 2 Measuring the Information Economy -- 3 IT's Contributions to Productivity and Economic Growth -- 4 Business Practices That Enhance Productivity -- 5 Organizational...

Purpose – European social protection arrangements have undergone significant transformations since the mid-1970s. However, while the existing literature has focused on reforms in public welfare arrangements, an analysis of both public and private social protection is needed to understand the...

Britain and Germany have been experiencing significant changes in the nature of work and welfare since the 1990s. Although important differences have remained, there have been compelling indications of a dual transformation of welfare constituted not only by a far-reaching retrenchment in...

This paper constructs new, longitudinal measures of corporate data practices by conducting textual analysis of annual 10-K filings from 1996 to 2012. We provide descriptive evidence of a dramatic increase in data-related activities over this period, beginning in IT-producing firms and then...