Organizational Redesign, Information Technologies and Workplace Productivity

Benoit Dostie () and Rajshri Jayaraman ()
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Rajshri Jayaraman: European School of Management and Technology (ESMT)

No 3612, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Abstract: Using a large longitudinal, nationally representative workplace-level dataset, we explore the productivity gains associated with computer use and organizational redesign. The empirical strategy involves the estimation of a production function, augmented to account for technology use and organizational design, correcting for unobserved heterogeneity. We find large returns associated with computer use. We also find that computer use and organizational redesign may be complements or substitutes in production, and that the productivity gains associated with organizational redesign are industry-specific.

Keywords: linked employer-employee data; workplace practices; productivity; information technologies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D20 L20 M54 O33 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-bec, nep-eff, nep-ict and nep-knm
Date: 2008-07
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Working Paper: Organizational Redesign, Information Technologies and Workplace Productivity (2008)
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