The productivity effects of intrafirm diffusion

  1. Fuentelsaz Lamata, Lucio 1
  2. Gómez Villascuerna, Jaime 1
  3. Palomas Doña, Sergio 1
  1. 1 Universidad de Zaragoza
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    Universidad de Zaragoza

    Zaragoza, España

    ROR https://ror.org/012a91z28

Revista:
Documentos de Trabajo FUNCAS

ISSN: 1988-8767

Año de publicación: 2007

Número: 326

Tipo: Documento de Trabajo

Otras publicaciones en: Documentos de Trabajo FUNCAS

Resumen

This paper studies the performance impact of the intrafirm diffusion of new technologies. We argue that little connection between the literatures on technology diffusion and on the performance effects of adoption exists. We analyze the approaches taken when studying the performance effects of innovation and propose a method that accounts for the pace of intrafirm diffusion. Our sample describes the within-firm diffusion of the ATMs among the Spanish savings banks from 1986 to 2004. We conclude that, after controlling for the endogeneity of adoption, only this new approach is able to capture the contribution of the technology to productivity.