Advanced technology use and firm performance in Canadian manufacturing in the 1990s

This paper investigates the evolution of industrial structure in Canadian manufacturing and its relationship to technological change. It does so by examining the extent to which plants that make greater use of advanced technologies experience higher growth in market share and productivity. Using rec...

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Published in:Industrial and corporate change 2002-08, Vol.11 (4), p.761-789
Main Authors: Baldwin, John R., Sabourin, David
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Advanced manufacturing technologies
Canada
Corporate growth
Economic performance
Enterprises
Industrial organization
Industrial structure
Industry
Information technology
Innovations
Manufacturing
Market shares
Organizational change
Productivity
Research & development expenditures
Stochastic models
Studies
Success
Technological change
Technology
Technology adoption
Value added
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Summary:This paper investigates the evolution of industrial structure in Canadian manufacturing and its relationship to technological change. It does so by examining the extent to which plants that make greater use of advanced technologies experience higher growth in market share and productivity. Using recent survey data on technology use at the plant level, the study finds that establishments that had adopted advanced manufacturing technologies by the end of the 1990s, particularly network communications technologies, had superior productivity growth throughout the decade. In turn, gains in relative productivity were accompanied by gains in market share.
ISSN:0960-6491
1464-3650
1464-3650
DOI:10.1093/icc/11.4.761