Sergio Lugaresi of Capitalia Bank for providing us with the data of two surveys of Italian manufacturing firms and
| Title: | Sergio Lugaresi of Capitalia Bank for providing us with the data of two surveys of Italian manufacturing firms and |
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| Authors: | Paola Giuri; Salvatore Torrisi; Natalia Zinovyeva; Jel Codes O; Ashish Arora; Manuel F. Bagüés; Bruno Cassiman; Alfonso Gambardella; Keld Laursen; Mario Morroni |
| Contributors: | The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives |
| Source: | http://www.lem.sssup.it/WPLem/files/2005-11.pdf. |
| Publication Year: | 2005 |
| Collection: | CiteSeerX |
| Subject Terms: | Organizational change; ICT investment; skills; human capital; productivity; complementarity; SMEs |
| Description: | 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 methods, we do not find any clearcut support to the hypothesis of full complementarity among ICT, human capital and organizational change. We find a strong support to the hypotheses of skill-biased technical change and a weaker support to the skill-biased organizational change hypothesis particularly in medium-sized firms. Our findings suggest that the productivity gains from investments in the three innovative activities are related to firm size. |
| Document Type: | text |
| File Description: | application/pdf |
| Language: | English |
| Relation: | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.643.4594 |
| Availability: | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.643.4594; http://www.lem.sssup.it/WPLem/files/2005-11.pdf |
| Rights: | Metadata may be used without restrictions as long as the oai identifier remains attached to it. |
| Accession Number: | edsbas.44F69D30 |
| Database: | BASE |