The productivity of information technology investments: New evidence from IT labor data

Information Systems Research

Volumn 23, Issue 3 PART 1, 2012, Pages 599-617

  Tambe, Prasanna ^a   Hitt, Lorin M ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Business value of IT; Econometrics; Economics of IS; IT labor; Productivity

Indexed keywords

INVESTMENTS; METHOD OF MOMENTS; PRODUCTIVITY; QUALITY CONTROL; STATISTICS;

BUSINESS PROCESS INNOVATIONS; BUSINESS VALUE OF IT; ECONOMETRICS; ECONOMICS OF IS; GENERALIZED METHOD OF MOMENTS; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY INVESTMENTS; IT BUSINESS VALUES; MANUFACTURING SECTOR;

ECONOMICS;

EID: 84861370048     PISSN: 10477047     EISSN: 15265536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/isre.1110.0398     Document Type: Article

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