ICT, skills, and organisational change: Evidence from a panel of Italian manufacturing firms

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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.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: LEM Working Paper Series ; No. 2005/11

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights: General ; Production; Cost; Capital; Capital, Total Factor, and Multifactor Productivity; Capacity ; Organization of Production
• Subject: organizational change ; ICT investment ; skills ; human capital ; productivity ; complementarity ; SMEs ; Organisatorischer Wandel ; Informationstechnik ; Technischer Fortschritt ; Humankapital ; Produktivität ; Industrie ; Italien

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Giuri, Paola ; Torrisi, Salvatore ; Zinovyeva, Natalia
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Laboratory of Economics and Management (LEM)
• (where): Pisa
• (when): 2005

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/89553
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET