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Dynamics of investment and firm performance : comparative evidence from manufacturing industries
Grazzi, Marco; Jacoby, Nadia; Treibich, Tania - 2013
If the relation between investment and economic growth is well established in the macroeconomic literature, the existence of a similar link at the level of the firm has been challenged by empirical work. This paper investigates the channels linking investment and firm performance in the French...
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Multi-task learning and the reorganization of work : from Tayloristic to holistic organization
Lindbeck, Assar; Snower, Dennis J. - 1999
The paper analyzes the contemporary organizational restructuring of production and work within firms. We emphasize the shift from a "Tayloristic" organization of work (characterized by significant specialization by tasks) to a "holistic" organization (featuring job rotation, integration of tasks...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011294704
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ICT, skills, and organisational change : evidence from a panel of Italian manufacturing firms
Giuri, Paola (contributor); Torrisi, Salvatore (contributor) - 2006
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 1995-2000. By drawing on different statistical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003092322
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Digitalizing firms: skills, work organization and the adoption of new enabling technologies
Cirillo, Valeria; Fanti, Lucrezia; Mina, Andrea; Ricci, … - 2021
New enabling technologies are shaping the transformation of production activities. This process of change is characterised by growing digitization, inter-connectivity and automation. The diffusion of new technologies is, however, very uneven, and firms display different adoption behaviours. By...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012436317
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Human capital is the key to the IT productivity paradox
Gunnarsson, Gudmundur; Mellander, Erik; Savvidou, Eleni - 2004
Unlike previous analysis, we consider (i) possible externalities in the use of IT and (ii) IT and human capital interactions. Examining, hypothetically, the statistical consequences of erroneously disregarding (i) and (ii) we shed light on the small or negative growth effects found in early...
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Competition Through Institutional Form : The Case of Cluster Tool Standards
Langlois, Richard N. - 2015
Industrial economists tend to think of competition as occurring between atomic units called "firms." Theorists of organization tend to think about the choice among various kinds of organizational structures - what Langlois and Robertson (1995) call "business institutions." But few have thought...
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Outsourcing and Technological Change
Bartel, Ann P. - 2014
We present a dynamic model where the probability of outsourcing production is increasing in the firmﾒs expectation of technological change. As the pace of innovations in production technologies increases, the less time the firm has to amortize the sunk costs associated with purchasing and...
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Innovative Work Practices, Information Technologies and Working Conditions : Evidence for France
Askenazy, Philippe; Caroli, Eve - 2021
We investigate the impact of new work practices and information and communication technologies (ICT) on working conditions in France. We use a unique French dataset providing information on individual workers for the year 1998. New work practices include the use of quality norms, job rotation,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317419
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Offshoring, total factor productivity and skill-biased technological change
Akhmetova, Zhanar; Ferguson, Shon - 2015
The paper answers two questions simultaneously. What is the effect of offshoring on firms' total factor productivity …? What is the effect of offshoring on skill-biased technological change? We estimate a model of firm production that allows … for the effect of offshoring on both total factor productivity and relative skilled labor productivity, and for spillovers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011283243
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Labour market polarization in advanced countries : impact of global value chains, technology, import competition from China and labour market institutions
Breemersch, Koen; Damijan, Jože P.; Konings, Jozef - 2017
This paper explores the effects of offshoring, technology and Chinese import competition on labor market polarization … outside of manufacturing, technological change and offshoring are the most relevant forces affecting within …
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