The productivity payoff of information technology in multimarket SMEs |
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Authors: | Francesco D Sandulli José Fernández-Menéndez Antonio Rodríguez-Duarte José Ignacio López-Sánchez |
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Institution: | (1) Departamento de Organizaci?n de Empresas, Facultad de Ciencias Econ?micas y Empresariales, Universidad Complutense de Madrid , Campus de Somosaguas, Pozuelo de Alarc?n, 28223 Madrid, Spain |
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Abstract: | This paper examines the effects of information technology (IT) adoption on the productivity of multimarket small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The main hypothesis is that IT usage increases efficiency to a higher degree in diversified and internationalized firms compared with single-market SMEs. This hypothesis is tested using a large sample of more than 2,000 Spanish SMEs. Overall, intensive use of IT in operations processes is found to be associated with substantial increases in productivity of firms following both related and unrelated diversification. Also, exporting firms with more intensive use of IT have higher productivity. These results are consistent with previous theoretical arguments on the relationship between IT and efficiency of firms and open future research directions related to the role played by IT in the management control systems of both diversified and exporting firms. |
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