The ‘new firm paradigm’ and the provision of training: The impact of ICT, workplace organization and human capital

Hollenstein, Heinz; Stucki, Tobias

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“…These interrelated changes have been perceived as a shift towards a 'new firm paradigm' (Hollenstein and Stucki, 2012). These interrelated changes have been perceived as a shift towards a 'new firm paradigm' (Hollenstein and Stucki, 2012).…”

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Innovations, ICT and ICT‐driven labour productivity in Poland

Arendt

Grabowski

2017

Econ Transit

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In this paper, we describe and develop a two-step model, based on the CDM approach and the new firm paradigm, to link innovation outputs and ICT to productivity gains, using micro-level data from 1,000 Polish companies. Our study confirmed the mediating role of innovations and ICT complementarities with respect to productivity gains. However, the main finding is that the strength of this relationship depends on the company's distance to the technological frontier. We show that the more productive a company is, the more important are co-innovative sources of productivity. Thus, support programmes should also be provided to highly productive companies, which require a higher level of ICT complementarities to boost productivity. This finding may hold true for other CEE countries as well.

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Innovations, ICT and ICT‐driven labour productivity in Poland

Arendt

Grabowski

2017

Econ Transit

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“…A potential explanation for this finding made in similar form in other studies [Hollenstein and Stucki, 2012, Puhani, 2005] is that the result is driven by Switzerland's strong focus on vocational education and training (VET). The VET system, which combines education at vocational schools with work in the training companies, seem to have the effect of making newly trained apprentices used to ICT tasks, and therefore shields them from being substituted by ICT later in life.…”

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Dividing the Pie: The Determinants of Labor's Share of Income on the Firm Level

Siegenthaler

Stucki

2014

SSRN Journal

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in EconStor may February 2014Abstract This paper is the first to study the factors determining labor's share of income on the level of the individual firm, employing an unusually informative panel data set. The empirical examination is concerned with Switzerland which stands out as one of the very few developed countries with a stable labor share. Broadly confirming results from previous cross-country and industry-level studies, we find that the main factor decreasing the labor share in the estimation period is the increase in the share of workers using ICT in the firm. The main reasons why Switzerland's labor share remained almost constant are its relatively slow-rate of technological progress and shifts towards industries with above-average labor shares. JEL-Classification: D33, E25, J24, O30

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“…Guidetti and Mazzanti (2007) and Antonioli et al (2011) focus on manufacturing firms in the Modena and Reggio Emilia local production systems in the Emilia Romagna region of Italy and provide additional evidence of a positive link between organizational innovation, human resource practices, and firm-provided training. These results hold also in the case of Swiss firms: Hollenstein and Stucki (2012) document that while the propensity to work in teams positively affects the likelihood of training, its intensity is increased by changes to the hierarchical structure of the firm.…”

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“…Following the literature on the determinants of training (Bassanini et al, 2007;Antonelli et al, 2010;Ciriaci, 2011, Hollenstein andStucki, 2012) Since both training and labor productivity are observed in year 2003, potential simultaneity bias could affect standard ordinary least squares (OLS) estimates of equation 4. One of our two endogenous variables is binary so a standard three-stage least squares approach cannot be utilized.…”

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From outsourcing to productivity, passing through training: microeconometric evidence from Italy

Antonietti

2016

Industry and Innovation

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The aim of this paper is to provide firm-level evidence on the short-run link between outsourcing and labor productivity using an original dataset of Italian manufacturing firms, and applying a two-stage probit least squares estimator. We find a positive effect on productivity from outsourcing only if firms provide training for the workforce. This indirect impact on productivity is independent of the type of activity outsourced and is bigger in the case of service outsourcing. This can be explained by the different feedback effect of labor productivity on training and by the different type of training provided. While production outsourcing induces an organizational change which stimulates off-the-job training for plant operators, service outsourcing induces firms to train a broader range of occupational profiles -both off and on the job. Similar results emerge for the case of joint outsourcing of both production and service activities. Therefore, we find that outsourcing generates positive productivity effects only if it is part of a broader knowledge management strategy that involves upgrading of workers' skills.

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The ‘new firm paradigm’ and the provision of training: The impact of ICT, workplace organization and human capital

Cited by 10 publications

References 33 publications

Innovations, ICT and ICT‐driven labour productivity in Poland

Innovations, ICT and ICT‐driven labour productivity in Poland

Dividing the Pie: The Determinants of Labor's Share of Income on the Firm Level

From outsourcing to productivity, passing through training: microeconometric evidence from Italy

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