2005/11 | LEM Working Paper Series | |
ICT, Skills and Organisational Change: Evidence from a Panel of Italian Manufacturing Firms |
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Paola Giuri, Salvatore Torrisi, Natalia Zinovyeva |
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Keywords | ||
Organisational Change, ICT Investment, Workplace Organization, Human
Capital, Productivity
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JEL Classifications | ||
O30, D24, L23.
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Abstract | ||
This paper explores how firm's skills and organizational changes affect returns from investments in
information and communication technologies (ICT). Our work contributes to the literature on the
effects of ICT by testing the hypothesis of complementarity in a panel of 540 Italian manufacturing
firms during the period 1995-2000. Our analysis provides strong support to the hypothesis of
complementarity between skills and ICT (which is at the core of the skill-biased technical change
theory). We also find some evidence in favour of the skill-biased organizational change hypothesis.
The results obtained by drawing on different statistical methods suggest that interactions among ICT,
skills and organizational change are complex and non-linear.
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