This study examines the impact of firm resources on ICT adoption by the Turkish business enterprises using firm level … data. ICT adoption is measured at three levels: The first level is technology ownership. The second level is the presence …

this study, we focus on the role that Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) play in the innovation performance …) database, we show that ICT operate primarily as efficiency-enhancing technologies, although specific market oriented …

Developed economies have experienced slowing productivity growth in recent decades. Potential common drivers include … falling rates of innovation, the fading impacts of ICT and past economic reforms, and shifting economic activity to lower … productivity sectors. These are argued to have had varying degrees of influence on country performance, tempered by domestic …

In this report we review the literature on the relationship between ICT and productivity. In Sect. 1 we discuss in … broad terms the theoretical relationship between ICT and productivity, while in Sect. 2 we present the growth accounting … studying the role of ICT and complementary assets in firms' productivity and the literature exploring the positive …

Effects of R&D investment on frim/industry productivity have been investigated widely thanks to pioneering …

of firm productivity, focusing on the role played by international management standards certification. We develop and … technological capabilities, international standards are still conducive to higher productivity, through improved management … productivity premium. We further investigate the relationship between technological innovation and standard adoption. We find that …

's foreign intelligence service to sector-specific gaps in total factor productivity (TFP) between West and East Germany. Based …In this paper, we investigate the economic returns to industrial espionage by linking information from East Germany …-1989, we document a significant narrowing of sectoral West-to-East TFP gaps as a result of East Germany's industrial espionage …

's foreign intelligence service to sector-specific gaps in total factor productivity (TFP) between West and East Germany. Based …In this paper, we investigate the economic returns to industrial espionage by linking information from East Germany …-1989, we document a significant narrowing of sectoral West-to-East TFP gaps as a result of East Germany's industrial espionage …

Productivity growth has declined in most advanced economies in the past two decades and there are signs that the pace … - international trade in intermediate inputs - for multi-factor productivity growth using a range of cross-country industry-level data … sources. We find that greater participation in GVCs is associated with faster domestic productivity growth at the industry …

efficiency, labor productivity, and growth. We also include imports into the knowledge production function, because catching up … economies may adopt technologies embodied in imported hardware. Additionally, we link productivity and innovation output to … process innovation in all performance features except for labor productivity. However, higher efficiency does not improve the …