The phenomenon “productivity paradox” indicates that investment in information technology is not positively associated with financial performance. However, there have been debates as to whether this phenomenon is actually valid or not. In this study, we explore the different roles of IT for increasing productivity in manufacturing and service industries using the data mining method called Weka ...

During the past thirty years, the economy of the USA, along with other industrialized countries, has experienced several noticeable trends, namely, the economic slowdown, the tremendous increase in the amount of information technology investment, and fast structural change in terms of employment. With slow economic growth and fast IT capital accumulation, the so-called “information technology (...

During the past 30 years, the U.S. economy, along with the economies of other industrialized countries, has experienced several noticeable trends: an economic slowdown, a tremendous increase in the amount of information technology investment, and a increasing flow of workers from production to information sectors. With slow economic growth and fast IT capital accumulation, the so-called “inform...

many researches have depicted there is no significant and positive correlation between it and firm level performance, called productivity paradox, so as successful investment on it depends on taking into account the role of complementary assets such as business processes and organizational infrastructures. on the other hand, since there are not enough resources to invest on all these assets, th...

Solow (1987) made the statement that ‘we see computers everywhere except in the productivity statistics’. This has come to be known as the “productivity paradox.” Whether this is in fact a paradox or a direct implication of the diffusion of technical change is the focus of this paper. In particular, the implications of two different theoretical treatments of technology diffusion in an economy a...

This study explores the measurement of productivity within the service sector, in this case the state government sector of health. The algorithm for productivity is relativity simple, and has been applied to the health sector after statistical first principles have been applied, nonvested and normalised data. Not only can the entire health system be measured for productivity but so can each hea...