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Becchetti, Leonardo; Bedoya, David Andrés Londoño; Paganetto, Luigi

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“…According to the empirical evidence, ICTs, in general, and the Internet, in particular, have a positive effect on the economic development of organizations [6]. One of the tools offered by the Internet, the corporate website, is a core element around which the company's e-commerce activity revolves.…”

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“…Allocation of sufficient resources, efficient management by the right people, and control of technology diffusion are all necessary [21]. Thus, it is important to consider technological and social variables that are inherent in the implementation of innovations and that, together with the concerted support and effort of the entire organization, lead to the successful adoption of technology [4,6,22,23]. We, therefore, formulate the following hypothesis:…”

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Evaluation of Corporate Websites and Their Influence on the Performance of Olive Oil Companies

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Spain is among the largest producers of organic olive in the world. Yet the Spanish organic olive oil sector faces a major commercial problem due to an internal demand that is too small to match the volume of supply. Factors that explain this problem include the scarcity and scattered nature of points of sale, the lack of information available to consumers, and the very large gulf in the price between organic and nonorganic olive oil. To address these problems, the literature highlights the key commercial role of information and communication technologies (ICTs). The corporate website is a core element around which the company's e-commerce activity revolves. The goal of this study is to confirm the relationship between business efficiency, measured using data envelopment analysis (DEA), and the quality of the corporate website, measured using the extended Model of Internet Commerce Adoption (eMICA). Although this analysis did not identify a direct relationship between these two variables, fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsQCA) revealed that combinations of elements related to corporate website quality (interactivity and processing), organizational, and structural factors (size of firm and outsourcing of ICT management) can have a direct effect on organizational performance, measured in terms of economic efficiency.

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Evaluation of Corporate Websites and Their Influence on the Performance of Olive Oil Companies

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“…Finally, the expected sign of the coefficient associated to group is negative. In other words, TE is higher for firms belonging to groups: large organizations have relatively higher productivity and competitiveness than individual firms [14].…”

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“…The output is measured by the value of firm sales, labour is represented by the number of employees, while the physical capital is gauged by the sum of fixed and immaterial assets. These choices are widely shared by scholars using firm-data level and, especially, by those referring to the same data-source[14]-[18] 3. In the Pavitt taxonomy, sectors are classified as supplier dominated (Pavitt 1), scale intensive (Pavitt 2), specialized supplier (Pavitt 3) and science based (Pavitt 4).…”

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Being Efficient to Stay Strong in a Weak Economy. The Case of Calabrian Manufacturing Firms

Aiello

Castiglione

2014

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The aim of this work is to study the efficiency of firms operating in Calabria, a small and economically-lagging Italian region. The analysis is carried out by estimating a stochastic production frontier for an unbalanced panel of manufacturing firms which are observed over the 1998-2006 period. Results show that the efficiency score is, on average, about 60%. A declining trend is observed over the last three-year period, 2004-2006. Moreover, efficiency increases with firm age and when firms export. Inconclusive evidence is found for the role of investments in ICT and R&D. This is not very surprising given that private effort in technological activities is extremely low in Calabria (private R&D intensity was less than 0.075% of regional GDP in 2010). Keywords ICT, R&D, Stochastic Frontier, Calabria, Manufacturing FirmsF. Aiello, C. Castiglione 96 nomies: a high degree of dependence on external public transfers; a low degree of internationalization; a weak innovative system; a fragile financial structure; widespread corruption. Just an example for all. When considering the regional innovation system, it emerges that in Calabria the investments in R&D were, in 2010, 150 MLN of Euros, about 0.5% of regional GDP. In Italy this figure is equal to 1.53%, about half of 3% target set for Italy by Europe 2020. Dramatic signals come also from the composition of Research and Development (R&D) expenditure: in 2010, 85% of investments are made by universities. The differences between Calabria and the rest of Italy are therefore really worrying in the private-sector: when in Calabria firms spend 1 euro in R&D, the counterparts in the north-west of Italy spend 11 euro. In short, Calabria is an interesting case-study because firms face a context that is poorly endowed in terms of external factors which act as stimulus and support for individual growth.By following this line of reasoning, it becomes extremely interesting to analyze how Calabrian firms react to the absence of any type of positive territorial externality. They can act by adopting the best practices in order to be internally strong and efficient and overcome the diseconomies of being located in a poor economy. To this end, this work applies the Stochastic Frontier Approach (SFA) to measure the efficiency scores of an unbalanced panel data of Calabrian manufacturing firms observed over the 1998-2006 period. Efficiency is meant to be the distance from the regional production frontier, which we estimated by using the model specification proposed by [8]. Data are from the VIII, IX and X surveys carried out by Mediocredito Centrale-Capitalia (MCC) and Capitalia-UniCredit.With regard the economic model used in the empirical setting, it is clear that efficiency gains are dependent on many factors, the most influent of which should be the Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and the R&D efforts made by each company. In other words, it is expected that the introducing and adopting of technology will translate to a systemic increase in efficiency and productivity...

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“…Muitas MPMEs consideram o investimento alto, desconhecem as possibilidades e dificuldades do uso da tecnologia e não sabem como avaliar as melhorias obtidas. Assim, ainda não estão devidamente esclarecidas as consequências do investimento em informatização em empresas menores, apesar das pesquisas já realizadas neste contexto (MENDES;ESCRIVÃO FILHO, 2002;BUONANNO;GRAMIGNOLI;RAVARINI, 2002;AHUMADA-LOBO, 2002;BECCHETTI, 2003).…”

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TI e eficiência organizacional: um estudo no setor brasileiro de bens de capital mecânicos com foco em micro, pequenas e médias empresas

Souza¹,

Arpino²

2011

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Uma das medidas para o sucesso do uso da tecnologia da informação (TI) é seu impacto na performance das empresas. Muitos estudos têm sido realizados analisando a influência da TI no resultado, especialmente em empresas de grande porte. Este trabalho tem como objetivo analisar a relação entre investimentos em TI e eficiência organizacional com foco em empresas de micro, pequeno e médio porte. Para isso, foram identificados fatores críticos de sucesso para o desempenho de empresas industriais, sendo em seguida desenvolvido um modelo para realização de análise envoltória de dados (DEA - Data Envelopment Analysis) em dois estágios. A pesquisa de campo foi realizada com empresas ligadas à Associação Brasileira das Indústrias de Máquinas e Equipamentos (Abimaq). Dentre os resultados destacam-se a maior capacidade das empresas de pequeno porte em converter o uso da TI em eficiência operacional e a maior capacidade das empresas maiores em converter fatores críticos de sucesso em rentabilidade.

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Cited by 85 publications

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Evaluation of Corporate Websites and Their Influence on the Performance of Olive Oil Companies

Evaluation of Corporate Websites and Their Influence on the Performance of Olive Oil Companies

Being Efficient to Stay Strong in a Weak Economy. The Case of Calabrian Manufacturing Firms

TI e eficiência organizacional: um estudo no setor brasileiro de bens de capital mecânicos com foco em micro, pequenas e médias empresas

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