B2B or not to be: Does B2B e-commerce increase labour productivity?

International Journal of the Economics of Business

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 387-405

  Bertschek, Irene ^a   Fryges, Helmut ^a   Kaiser, Ulrich ^a,b,c  

^a CENTRE FOR EUROPEAN ECONOMIC RESEARCH ZEW   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Business to Business E Commerce; Endogenous Switching Regression Model; Labour Productivity; Survey Data

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750207791     PISSN: 13571516     EISSN: 14661829     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13571510600961395     Document Type: Article

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