E-commerce, r&d, and productivity: Firm-level evidence from taiwan

Information Economics and Policy

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 272-283

  Liu, Ting Kun ^a   Chen, Jong Rong ^b   Huang, Cliff C J ^c   Yang, Chih Hai ^b  

^a CHAOYANG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

E commerce; Network externalities; Productivity; R D spillovers

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY RELATIONSHIP; E-COMMERCE ADOPTION; GENERALIZED METHOD OF MOMENTS; MANUFACTURING FIRMS; NETWORK EXTERNALITY;

INDUSTRY; PRODUCTIVITY;

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE;

DATA SET; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; MANUFACTURING; PANEL DATA; PRODUCTIVITY; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT; TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION;

TAIWAN;

EID: 84887521423     PISSN: 01676245     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.infoecopol.2013.07.001     Document Type: Article

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