The business value of information technology and inputs substitution: The productivity paradox revisited

Decision Support Systems

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 493-507

  Lin, Winston T ^a   Shao, Benjamin B M ^b  

^a 160 Jacobs Management Center   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

CES production function; Complementarity; Information technology; IT investments; Productivity paradox; Substitutability; Technical efficiency

Indexed keywords

CES PRODUCTION FUNCTION; COMPLEMENTARITY; IT INVESTMENTS; PRODUCTIVITY PARADOX; SUBSTITUTABILITY; TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY;

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING; INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH; INVENTORY CONTROL; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PRODUCTIVITY;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 33744998250     PISSN: 01679236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dss.2005.10.011     Document Type: Article

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