Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/128770 
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Year of Publication: 
2004
Series/Report no.: 
WIFO Working Papers No. 216
Publisher: 
Austrian Institute of Economic Research (WIFO), Vienna
Abstract: 
In the EU, most large firms use e-business applications, such as enterprise resource planning and online procurement. Based on e-business watch data for EU-4 (Germany, France, Italy and the United Kingdom) we find that the actual use of enterprise resource planning and online procurement is positively correlated with labour productivity growth. Furthermore, we find that certain e-business applications, such as Knowledge Management Solution (KMS) systems and CRM systems are significantly positively correlated to either sectoral skill intensity or information technology intensity. The results from the empirical analysis based on Community Innovation survey (CIS 3) data confirm the hypothesis that the introduction of business practices and new organisational practices are highly correlated. Furthermore, there is a significantly positive relationship between labour productivity growth and the percentage of enterprises with new or significantly changed organisational structures based on industry data for some EU countries.
Subjects: 
organisational change
new business practices
economics of Information
Technology
JEL: 
M20
L86
O31
O32
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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