Investigating the total factor productivity changes in the top ICT companies worldwide

Fazıl Gökgöz () and Mustafa Taylan Güvercin ()
Additional contact information
Fazıl Gökgöz: Ankara University
Mustafa Taylan Güvercin: Ankara University

Electronic Commerce Research, 2018, vol. 18, issue 4, No 6, 811 pages

Abstract: Abstract This study benchmarks the cross-layer productivity of information and communications technologies (ICT) for the period between 1996 and 2015. Our results display that layer 3 companies (platforms, e-commerce, content and software) are the drivers of productivity growth within the ICT industry in the recent years. In contrast, layer 2 companies (network operators) score lower in efficiency than the other layers and experience a continuous decline in average productivity since mid-2000s. We note that, the key financial performance indicators signal a slowdown in the ICT industry since 2011, after when average increase rates of revenues and total assets dropped significantly. The stagnation is severer for network operators, which have been the main investors of the networks on which ICT rises.

Keywords: ICT industry; Productivity; Sequential DEA; Malmquist productivity index; Technological change (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s10660-017-9285-4 Abstract (text/html)
Access to the full text of the articles in this series is restricted.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:elcore:v:18:y:2018:i:4:d:10.1007_s10660-017-9285-4

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
http://www.springer.com/journal/10660

DOI: 10.1007/s10660-017-9285-4

Access Statistics for this article

Electronic Commerce Research is currently edited by James Westland

More articles in Electronic Commerce Research from Springer
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().