Computers and Productivity: How Firms Make a General Purpose Technology WorkSpringer Science & Business Media, 2006 - 194 lappuses Information and communication technologies (ICTs) create potentials for considerable productivity gains and for higher economic growth. However, ICTs also pose varied challenges to firms in order to benefit from these potentials. Highlighting the importance of innovations, firm-sponsored training, and recruitment of high-skilled workers, this monograph analyses why and to what extent firms differ in their capabilities to make ICT work productively. The work also comprises a detailed discussion of economic theory concerning ICT use and complementary firm strategies. In addition it provides a comprehensive treatment of various methodological issues concerning the measurement of firm-level productivity in econometric analyses.
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Introduction | 1 |
Impacts of ICT as a general purpose technology | 9 |
22 Generalpurpose properties of ICT | 12 |
23 ICT productivity and complementarities | 15 |
231 Contributions to productivity | 16 |
232 Complements to ICT use | 22 |
233 A theoretical model of complementarities | 25 |
24 Empirical evidence for Germany | 29 |
422 Innovative capabilities and the role of experience | 105 |
423 Specifics of innovation in services | 108 |
424 Empirical model | 111 |
43 Data | 114 |
44 Empirical results | 118 |
442 Discussion and alternative explanations | 125 |
45 Conclusions | 127 |
46 Appendix | 129 |
241 ICT diffusion | 31 |
242 Corporate strategies associated with ICT use | 37 |
25 Conclusions | 49 |
26 Appendix | 51 |
262 Tables | 53 |
Contributions of ICT to firm productivity | 57 |
32 Theoretical and methodological issues | 59 |
331 A model of ICTinduced quality improvements | 61 |
332 Reference framework | 64 |
333 Extensions | 65 |
34 Data | 68 |
35 Empirical results | 72 |
352 Extensions | 80 |
36 Conclusions | 87 |
37 Appendix | 89 |
372 Imposing common factor restrictions by minimum distance | 92 |
373 Tables | 94 |
ICT productivity and innovations | 101 |
42 Theoretical background | 103 |
ICT productivity and human capital investments | 133 |
52 Theoretical issues | 136 |
522 Theoretical hypotheses | 140 |
53 Empirical approach | 141 |
531 Correlations in factor choice | 142 |
532 Productive interactions | 144 |
533 Training incentives from ICT investment? | 146 |
54 Data | 147 |
55 Empirical results | 150 |
551 Correlated factor choice | 151 |
552 Complementarities in the production function | 156 |
553 Wage cost effects and training incentives | 160 |
56 Conclusions | 162 |
57 Appendix | 163 |
572 Tables and graphs | 167 |
Conclusions | 175 |
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Computers and Productivity: How Firms Make a General Purpose Technology Work Thomas Hempell Ierobežota priekšskatīšana - 2006 |
Computers and Productivity: How Firms Make a General Purpose Technology Work Thomas Hempell Priekšskatījums nav pieejams - 2006 |
Computers and Productivity: How Firms Make a General Purpose Technology Work Thomas Hempell Priekšskatījums nav pieejams - 2005 |
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Appendix apply Bresnahan Brynjolfsson and Hitt capital deepening capital stocks chapter Cobb-Douglas column complementarities computers contributions of ICT correlation corresponding costs customer relationship management differences dummy variable East Germany econometric economic elasticities employees equation factor choice findings firm-level firm-specific firm's firms Germany GMM estimator growth higher human capital ICT and non-ICT ICT and training ICT capital ICT intensity ICT investment ICT productivity ICT sector impacts of ICT important increase industry dummies innovation activities innovative experience inputs intangible intangible assets Internet investments in ICT labour log(ICT log(value added MIP-S Moreover non-ICT capital non-ICT investments one-step output P-VALUES process innovations product innovations production function productivity contributions productivity differentials productivity effects productivity gains productivity of ICT purpose technology regressions role sample Sargan share of workers skills specification statistics strategies studies substantial summarised supermodularity SYS-GMM estimator Table technologies training expenditures translog two-step
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