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Tekijä:Meyer, J.
Otsikko:Workforce age and technology adoption in small and medium-sized service firms
Lehti:Small business economics
2011 : OCT, VOL 37:3, p. 305-324
Asiasana:labour supply
technology
information
econometrics
technological innovation
small business
small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)
service
Germany
Kieli:eng
Tiivistelmä:This study provides empirical evidence on the connection between the workforce's age structure and the adoption of new or greatly improved technologies. In addition, it makes an attempt to clarify the role of teamwork in this relationship. The econometric analysis rests on data of 356 small and medium-sized German companies working in knowledge-intensive or ICT services. The results indicate that, compared to employees under 30 years of age, an older workforce is negatively related to the effectivity of technology adoption. On the contrary, the dispersion of the employees' age within the workforce does not seem to be related with the probability of technology adoption. Nevertheless, in companies relying intensively to teamwork a homogenous workforce in terms of age is positively connected to the probability of technology adoption.
SCIMA tietueen numero: 275271
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