"""The seminal work of Milgrom and Roberts (1990) established that interactions between factors like ICT, organization and human capital entail a complementary relationship between these inputs and that from such interactions firms are able to exploit productivity gains arising from ICT investment. This evidence emerges above all from firm-level analysis, that permit to capture important sources of variance across firms and investigate the conditions that allow the investment in ICT to have a significant impact on a firm’s productivity performance. Concerning Italian firms there are few works that investigated this topic; at the beginning of the new millennium the delay of Italian economic system in adopting new technologies was in part recovered. The aim of this work is to verify the complementarity between inputs examined, namely ICT, organizational change and training. The empirical analysis is conducted on a panel of Italian manufacturing firms covering the period 2001-2006. The application of a suited SYS-GMM estimator on the entire sample and on a subsample of firms that invested in ICT show that for the last category of firms there exists a more coherent relationship between pair-inputs and also among all three inputs considered."""
The impact of ICT on productivity of Italian firms: evaluation of the micro-complementarity hypothesis
DONATI, Cristiana;SARNO, Domenico
2013
Abstract
"""The seminal work of Milgrom and Roberts (1990) established that interactions between factors like ICT, organization and human capital entail a complementary relationship between these inputs and that from such interactions firms are able to exploit productivity gains arising from ICT investment. This evidence emerges above all from firm-level analysis, that permit to capture important sources of variance across firms and investigate the conditions that allow the investment in ICT to have a significant impact on a firm’s productivity performance. Concerning Italian firms there are few works that investigated this topic; at the beginning of the new millennium the delay of Italian economic system in adopting new technologies was in part recovered. The aim of this work is to verify the complementarity between inputs examined, namely ICT, organizational change and training. The empirical analysis is conducted on a panel of Italian manufacturing firms covering the period 2001-2006. The application of a suited SYS-GMM estimator on the entire sample and on a subsample of firms that invested in ICT show that for the last category of firms there exists a more coherent relationship between pair-inputs and also among all three inputs considered."""I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
