Information technology, organisational change and productivity growth
Subtitle: evidence from UK firms
By: Gustavo Crespi, Chiara Criscuolo and Jonathan Haskel
Contributors: Criscuolo, Chiara; Haskel, Jonathan; London School of Economics and Political Science. Centre for Economic Performance
Series: CEP discussion paper -- no. 783
Publisher: Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics and Political Science
Published: 2007
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Description: We examine the relationships between productivity growth, IT investment and organisational change  using UK firm data. Consistent with the small number of other micro studies we find (a) IT appears to have high returns in a growth accounting sense when organisational change is omitted; when organisational change is included the IT returns are greatly reduced, (b) IT and organisational change interact in their effect on productivity growth, (c) non-IT investment and organisational change do not interact in their effect on productivity growth. Some new findings are (a) organisational change  is affected by competition; (b) US-owned firms are much more likely to introduce organisational changeorganisational change relative to foreign owned firms who are more likely still relative to UK firms; (c) our predicted measured TFP growth slowdown for firms who are not doing organisational change and/or are in the early stages of IT investment compare well with the macro numbers documenting a UK measured TFP growth slowdown.
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