Information and communication technologies, human capital, workplace organization and labour productivity: A comparative study based on firm-level data for Greece and Switzerland

Information Economics and Policy

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 43-61

  Arvanitis, Spyros ^a   Loukis, Euripidis N ^b  

^a KOF SWISS ECONOMIC INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

Author keywords

Human capital; Information and communication technologies; Organization; Productivity

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION; FUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TECHNOLOGY;

COMPARATIVE STUDIES; ECONOMETRIC MODELS; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; FIRM SIZES; HUMAN CAPITAL; INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES; ORGANIZATION; ORGANIZATIONAL PRACTICES; POSITIVE EFFECTS; PRODUCTION FUNCTIONS; SWITZERLAND; WORKPLACE ORGANIZATIONS;

PRODUCTIVITY;

ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORK; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECONOMETRICS; FIRM SIZE; HUMAN CAPITAL; INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY; LABOR PRODUCTIVITY; WORKPLACE;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 58149333446     PISSN: 01676245     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.infoecopol.2008.09.002     Document Type: Article

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