Antonietti, Roberto
(2005)
The role of general and firm-specific training for new technology adoption and economic growth: a critical review.
Bologna:
Dipartimento di Scienze economiche DSE,
p. 28.
DOI
10.6092/unibo/amsacta/4752.
In: Quaderni - Working Paper DSE
(538).
ISSN 2282-6483.
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Abstract
Aim of this article is to present an overview of the main economic literature focusing on the issue of
how technology adoption and the accumulation of technical skills by firms affects the aggregate
performance of economic systems. Since the analysis is labour‐demand oriented, a differentiation between a
‘mainstream’ and a ‘non‐mainstream’ approach is supposed to be crucial, the first being consistent with the
neoclassical paradigm of the firm and human capital, while the second with the Schumpeterian paradigm
and the so called view of the firm as a ‘learning organization’.
Going through the basic models, the paper argues that while the mainstream approach is primarily
based on production costs analyses and the capacity of the market and hierarchies to provide the specific
skills in order for workers to deal with new technologies, non‐mainstream approaches are mainly oriented
to the analysis of dynamic competition, entrepreneurial/managerial skills and within‐firm organizational
learning processes that are necessary in order to cope with a changing environment.
Abstract
Aim of this article is to present an overview of the main economic literature focusing on the issue of
how technology adoption and the accumulation of technical skills by firms affects the aggregate
performance of economic systems. Since the analysis is labour‐demand oriented, a differentiation between a
‘mainstream’ and a ‘non‐mainstream’ approach is supposed to be crucial, the first being consistent with the
neoclassical paradigm of the firm and human capital, while the second with the Schumpeterian paradigm
and the so called view of the firm as a ‘learning organization’.
Going through the basic models, the paper argues that while the mainstream approach is primarily
based on production costs analyses and the capacity of the market and hierarchies to provide the specific
skills in order for workers to deal with new technologies, non‐mainstream approaches are mainly oriented
to the analysis of dynamic competition, entrepreneurial/managerial skills and within‐firm organizational
learning processes that are necessary in order to cope with a changing environment.
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Monograph
(Working Paper)
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Keywords
specific training, learning, technology adoption, resource‐based perspective, genetic algorithms
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ISSN
2282-6483
DOI
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Document type
Monograph
(Working Paper)
Creators
Keywords
specific training, learning, technology adoption, resource‐based perspective, genetic algorithms
Subjects
ISSN
2282-6483
DOI
Deposit date
18 Mar 2016 10:30
Last modified
18 Mar 2016 10:30
URI
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