Resources on the Stage: A Firm Level Analysis of the ICT Adoption in Turkey

Derya Findik () and Aysıt Tansel ()
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Derya Findik: Middle East Technical University

No 9263, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: This study examines the impact of firm resources on ICT adoption by the Turkish business enterprises using firm level data. ICT adoption is measured at three levels: The first level is technology ownership. The second level is the presence of enterprise resource planning (ERP) and customer resource management (CRM), and the third level is the use of narrowband and broadband technologies. The effects of the three main features of each technology level, which are complementarity, specificity, and the complexity, are analyzed by using firm level data in Turkey. This study has three main conclusions. As for the complementarity, firm's resources play an important role in the adoption of technology while advancing from single technology to the multiple ones. Further, in the use of specific technologies such as ERP and CRM, firm resources generate differential effects between those technologies. Finally, the use of simple technologies does not require the same amount of firm resources as complex technologies.

Keywords: adoption; specificity; complementarity; ICT; complexity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D22 D24 O30 O47 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 33 pages
Date: 2015-08
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Published - published in: B. Christiansen and M. Erdogdu (eds.), Comparative Economics and Regional Development in Turkey, 2015, 106 - 126.

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Working Paper: Resources on the Stage: A Firm Level Analysis of the ICT Adoption in Turkey (2015)
Working Paper: Resources on the Stage: A Firm Level Analysis of the ICT Adoption in Turkey (2015)
Working Paper: Resources on the stage: a firm level analysis of the ict adoption in Turkey (2014)
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