ICT Use, Competitive Pressures, and Firm Performance in Mexico

Iacovone, Leonardo ; Pereira-Lopez, Mariana ; Schiffbauer, Marc

Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank

关键词: INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY;    TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION;    DIGITAL DIVIDE;    EXPORT COMPETITIVENESS;    FIRM PRODUCTIVITY;   

DOI  :  10.1093/wber/lhw023
RP-ID  :  140518

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

In this paper the authors present a setof stylized facts regarding the relation between informationand communication technologies (ICT) use, firm performance,and competition. Taking advantage of a novel firm-level dataset regarding ICT for Mexico, the authors find that firmsfacing higher competition appear to be the ones that havemore incentives to increase their use of ICT. Accordingly,even though there is indeed a positive relation between ICTuse and firm performance, this effect is greater for firmsthat face higher competition pressures, which is consistentwith the theoretical predictions of the trade-inducedtechnical change hypothesis.