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ICT, skills, and organisational change : evidence from a panel of Italian manufacturing firms
Giuri, Paola (contributor); Torrisi, Salvatore (contributor) - 2006
size. -- Organizational change ; ICT investment ; skills ; human capital ; productivity ; complementarity ; SMEs …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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003092322
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The Production Recipes Approach to Modeling Technological Innovation : An Application to Learning by Doing
Auerswald, Philip E.; Kauffman, Stuart; Lobo, José; … - 2015
We do two things in this paper. First, we put forward some elements of a microeconomic theory of technological evolution. This involves adding nascent (essentially undiscovered) technologies to the existing technologies of neoclassical production theory, and, more importantly, expanding the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014046283
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The economic effects of information technology: firm level evidence from the italian case
Atzeni, G.; Carboni, O. - Centro Ricerche Nord Sud (CRENoS) - 2001
technology (ICT) on productivity growth in Italy and to investigate the differences in ICT adoption between North and South of … the country. Not all firms invest in ICT and skills, or better to say, not at the same rate. This situation is found to be … at the base of the broad productivity variance across the sample. In Italy performance asymmetry has a strong territorial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005049513
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Ingredients for the New Economy: How Much does finance matter?
Bugamelli, Matteo; Pagano, Patrizio; Francesco Patern� - Banca d'Italia - 2001
Both macro and (still scarce) micro evidence support the idea that a new economy is emerging in the US, not (yet) in Europe. Some have argued that the inadequacies of Europe�s financial system are an important part of the explanation. This paper, after surveying the existing literature on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005609355
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Barriers to investment in ICT
Bugamelli, Matteo; Pagano, Patrizio - Banca d'Italia - 2001
We investigate the diffusion of information and communication technologies (ICT) in Italian manufacturing using microdata. We find a positive correlation at firm level between ICT investment, human capital of the labor force and reorganization. Starting from row data, we build a measure of ICT...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005609371
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ICT, Skills, and Organizational Change : Evidence from Italian Manufacturing Firms
Giuri, Paola - 2010
This article examines the complementarity among information and communication technologies (ICT), skills, and … methods, we found evidence of complementarity between skills and organizational change, but did not find evidence of … complementarity between ICT and skills. Moreover, our results show that the hypothesis of full complementarity among ICT, human …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012716331
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Organisational change and the productivity effects of green technology adoption
Hottenrott, Hanna; Rexhäuser, Sascha; Veugelers, Reinhilde - 2016 - This version January 2016
This study investigates induced productivity effects of firms introducing new environmental technologies. The … literature on within-firm organisational change and productivity suggests that firms can achieve higher productivity gains from … adopting new technologies if they adapt their organisational structures. Such complementarity effects may be of particular …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011411433
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Green Innovations and Organizational Change : Making Better Use of Environmental Technology
Hottenrott, Hanna - 2014
The literature on within-firm organizational change and productivity suggests that firms can make more efficient use of … technologies and that joint adoption leads to higher productivity. Without having introduced complementary organizational … innovations, the adoption of CO2 reducing technologies is associated with lower productivity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013064882
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Green Innovations and Organizational Change : Making Better Use of Environmental Technology
Hottenrott, Hanna; Rexhauser, Sascha; Veugelers, Reinhilde - 2014
The literature on within-firm organizational change and productivity suggests that firms can make more efficient use of … technologies and that joint adoption leads to higher productivity. Without having introduced complementary organizational … innovations, the adoption of CO2 reducing technologies is associated with lower productivity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014167857
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Skill Dispersion and Firm Productivity : An Analysis with Employer-Employee Matched Data
Iranzo, Susana; Schivardi, Fabiano; Tosetti, Elisa - 2006
We study the relation between workers' skill dispersion and firm productivity using a unique dataset of Italian … production function that depends on the skill composition show that a firm's productivity is positively related to skill …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014058934