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on Knowledge Management and Knowledge Economy |
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Issue of 2024‒05‒20
two papers chosen by Laura Nicola-Gavrila, Centrul European de Studii Manageriale în Administrarea Afacerilor |
| By: | Mauro Caselli; Edwin Fourrier-Nicolai; Andrea Fracasso; Sergio Scicchitano |
| Abstract: | This study examines the causal influence of digital technologies, specifically operational (ODT) and information digital technologies (IDT), on firms’ employment structure using Italian firm-level data. It employs a unique empirical approach, constructing instrumental variables based on predetermined employment composition and global technological progress, proxied by patents. Findings indicate that IDT investment positively affects employment, favoring a skilled, IT-competent workforce, as supported by firms’ training and recruitment plans. Conversely, ODT investment does not significantly alter total employment but skews the workforce towards temporary contracts. The study contributes methodologically by distinguishing between ODT and IDT and highlighting nuanced employment dynamics within firms. |
| Keywords: | digital technologies, labour demand, training, firms |
| JEL: | D22 J23 J24 M51 M53 O33 |
| Date: | 2024 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ces:ceswps:_11056&r=knm |
| By: | Autio , Erkko (Imperial College Business School); Park, Donghyun (Asian Development Bank) |
| Abstract: | This paper explores economy- and regional-level determinants of the productivity potential of new entrepreneurial firms using data from Asian Development Bank regional members. Results show that new entrepreneurial firms constitute a highly heterogeneous group in terms of their productivity potential and that this potential is shaped by the economy’s national system of entrepreneurship. This system consists of both economy level institutional conditions, as well as the resource and knowledge dynamics that operate at the level of regional entrepreneurial ecosystems. Economy-level institutional conditions shape the productivity potential of the economy’s population of new entrepreneurial firms through their effect on who chooses to become an entrepreneur and what strategic goals the resulting new firms decide and are able to pursue. The regional level entrepreneurial dynamics condition the extent to which new entrepreneurial ventures are able to realize this potential through business model innovation. This recognition is important because it suggests that to be effective, an economy’s entrepreneurship policy framework needs to address both economy-level institutional conditions as well as regional-level entrepreneurial ecosystem dynamics. The two require different policy approaches and pose distinctive challenges. |
| Keywords: | digital entrepreneurship; productivity; entrepreneurial policy; new firms |
| JEL: | L26 M13 O30 O38 |
| Date: | 2024–04–22 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ris:adbewp:0721&r=knm |