Adoption of Information and Communication Technologies and New Organizational Practices in the Tunisian Manufacturing Sector

Adel Ben Youssef, Walid Hadhri and Hatem Mhenni
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Walid Hadhri: Université de Tunis
Hatem Mhenni: Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Tunis
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Hatem M'HENNI

No 2014-31, GREDEG Working Papers from Groupe de REcherche en Droit, Economie, Gestion (GREDEG CNRS), Université Côte d'Azur, France

Abstract: The aim of this paper is to explore the relationship between the adoption of Information Technologies (IT) and the adoption of New Organizational Practices (NOP) in the context of an emerging country (Tunisia). Based on face-to-face questionnaire, to a random sample of 175 Tunisian manufactures, and using an ordered logit model, our empirical results show a significant link between IT adoption and NOP. We show that the complementarity is strengthened when the technology evolves. Adoption and usage of latest technologies are pushed by the prior adoption of NOP.

Keywords: ICT adoption; ICT usage; Ordred Logit Model; New Organizational Practices (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L21 O31 O33 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 20 pages
Date: 2014-10
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Published in Economics Bulletin, 2014, vol. 34, no. 4. pp. 2237-2252.

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