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Technological Capabilities, Institutions and Firm Productivity: A Multilevel Study

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Author

  • Micheline Goedhuys
  • Martin Srholec

Summary, in English

National framework conditions directly affect the productivity of firms, but also moderate returns on their technological efforts. Although this has long been recognised, there is a dearth of quantitative analyses that openly consider this hypothesis. Using a data set of 15 425 manufacturing firms in 32 developing countries, we investigate the impact of national institutions on firms' total factor productivity with the help of multilevel modelling. The results indicate that technological infrastructure and educational system make a large difference, and also most significantly interact with firms' technological capabilities. However, governance measures that are conventionally considered in the literature explain surprisingly little.

Department/s

Publishing year

2015

Language

English

Pages

122-139

Publication/Series

European Journal of Development Research

Volume

27

Issue

1

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Topic

  • Social Sciences Interdisciplinary

Keywords

  • productivity
  • innovation
  • technological capability
  • institutions
  • micro
  • data
  • multilevel modelling

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0957-8811