Computerization, workplace organization, skilled labour and firm productivity: Evidence for the Swiss business sector

Economics of Innovation and New Technology

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 225-249

  Arvanitis, Spyros ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Complementarities; Information technology; Productivity; Workplace organization

Indexed keywords

EID: 34248175098     PISSN: 10438599     EISSN: 14768364     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1043859042000226257     Document Type: Article

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