ICT adoption in Italian manufacturing: Firm-level evidence

Industrial and Corporate Change

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 225-249

  Fabiani, Silvia ^a   Schivardi, Fabiano ^a   Trento, Sandro ^a  

^a BANK OF ITALY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MANUFACTURING; TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE; WORLD;

EID: 17744378645     PISSN: 09606491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icc/dth050     Document Type: Article

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