Cloud Computing and Firm Growth

DeStefano, Timothy; Kneller, Richard; Timmis, Jonathan

doi:10.2139/ssrn.3618829

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“…We investigate a possible channel of transmission of cloud service use to export perfomance at the province level. This is a new field of investigation which can build upon the recent evidence on cloud adoption and firm growth (Destefano et al, 2019b). These authors describe a "scale-without-mass" effect, an additional benefit with respect to the general advantages of the use of internet such as lowering information asymmetries and increase network information.…”

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“…(Hagsten & Kotnik, 2017;Hervé et al, 2020). DeStefano et al, 2019b) using new firm-level data also examine the impact of cloud on firm growth, using zip-code-level instruments of the timing of high-speed fibre availability and speeds. In this case cloud also leads to the growth of employment and revenue for young firms, while for incumbents the authors find smaller scale effects but closing of establishments and moving employment farther from the headquarters.…”

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Follow the cloud! The impact of ICT on Italian provinces’ trade

2022

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This study investigates the role of digital capacities in the internationalisation processes of Italian provinces using a panel dataset built upon the territorial statistical database of ISTAT (Italian National Institute of Statistics) for the period 2014–2017. The purpose is to explore the link between three internationalisation indicators (export value, export intensity and export in most dynamics sectors) and two ICT drivers (use of e-business digital technologies, such as cloud computing, and use of social media) expected to enable firms to share information along the supply chain and to ease firms’ communication and fixed cost investment. To purge the analysis from unobserved determinants of export performance and ICT adoption reverse causation problems, the identification relies on an instrumental variables approach that addresses the endogeneity of our two variables of interest related to ICT. The results show a significant relationship between the ICT capacities related to cloud adoption and our export indicators confirming the role of e-business digital technologies in explaining the export performance of Italian provinces. The use of social media also appears weakly able to impact on the export performances indicators. These results are robust to our endogeneity checks.

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2022

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“…A growing literature addresses the determinants of cloud adoption. The respective studies show that cloud computing adoption is positively related to firm size (Oliveira et al, 2014;Ohnemus and Niebel, 2016;Andres et al, 2020;De Stefano et al, 2020). In other words, the larger a firm is, the more likely it is to use the cloud.…”

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“…In this context, Bloom and Pierri (2018) even argues that cloud computing has 'democratized' computing, as now any company can use (almost) any IT solution it needs, to any extent, and at any time without making (large) upfront investments. The elimination of the need to make IT investments is considered as one of the important consequences and a major benefit of cloud computing, especially for smaller firms (OECD, 2014;Jin and McElheran, 2019;Gal et al, 2019;De Stefano et al, 2020;Bloom and Pierri, 2018). Empirical evidence for this assertion, however, remains scarce.…”

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Let's Switch to the Cloud: Cloud Adaption and Its Effect on IT Investment and Productivity

Duso

Schiersch

2022

SSRN Journal

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“…you only pay for what you use rather than acquiring and maintaining expensive infrastructure. Use of cloud computing technologies allows businesses a quick route to market, much more efficient use of resources and agility in responding to changes in demand, making it a key factor in the growth of many organisations (DeStefano et al, 2020). Consequently, skills in cloud computing are much in demand by employers (Haranas, 2021) and so an area where Higher Education may choose to focus as industry alignment (Plice and Reinig, 2007;Benamati et al, 2010) is an important factor in delivering the workplace-ready graduates for the computing sector.…”

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"Educating for Modern Cloud Technologies in a Platform-Agnostic Fashion "

Cutting¹,

McDowell²,

Barlaskar³

et al. 2022

Education and New Developments 2022 – Volume 2

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"It is essential to provide computing students with hands-on exposure to modern techniques and technologies such as cloud computing. To this end we engaged with industry to co-design a curriculum for modern cloud computing to meet the industry needs for graduates. Vendors do provide access to cloud computing but their academic programs often leave much to be desired, with limited credits and features or a requirement to buy-in to their platform entirely. In the resource-constrained university sector simply buying vendor credits for students would be expensive but also wasteful as there is no capital investment. Having engaged with industrial partners to identify core theoretical skills and a subset of topics in which specific platform experience would be desirable we co-designed learning outcomes and assessments. To provide financially efficient platform-agnostic experience a private cloud was built using open-source tools which allowed a new large final year module. Having run this module for two full years and had excellent student feedback we reflect on the strengths and weaknesses of this approach and how industrial engagement cannot be a one-off, in a changing field it must be continuously performed to allow the curriculum to be refreshed and support emerging topics."

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Cloud Computing and Firm Growth

Cited by 19 publications

References 26 publications

Follow the cloud! The impact of ICT on Italian provinces’ trade

Follow the cloud! The impact of ICT on Italian provinces’ trade

Let's Switch to the Cloud: Cloud Adaption and Its Effect on IT Investment and Productivity

"Educating for Modern Cloud Technologies in a Platform-Agnostic Fashion "

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