Open AccessIMPACT OF TECHNOLOGY INVESTMENT ON FIRM’S PRODUCTION EFFICIENCY FACTOR IN MANUFACTURING
Author(s) -
Martiovotná,
Tomáš Volek,
M. Rost,
Jaroslav Vrchota
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of business economics and management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.485
H-Index - 37
eISSN - 1611-1699
pISSN - 2029-4433
DOI - 10.3846/jbem.2020.13635
Subject(s) - productivity , production (economics) , investment (military) , industrial organization , business , technological change , labor intensity , manufacturing , economics , market economy , microeconomics , macroeconomics , marketing , politics , political science , law
The goal of this paper is to investigate the impact of technology investments on production efficiency in manufacturing companies and how different these relationships are for low-technology and high-technology companies. The empirical part was based on the analysis of 2,848 large, small and medium-sized Czech companies by using Bayesian networks (BNs). The results show that technological investments have the greatest positive impact on the growth of labour productivity and on a decline in labour intensity in low technology enterprises. The technological investments have a positive impact on labour productivity growth in high-technology enterprises, but at the same time, the technological investments have an impact on the increase of labour intensity. On the contrary, the influence of investment growth was insignificant on the indicators of material and services intensity. Technologically intensive investments have a different impact on small, mediumsized and on large enterprises. The reaction of large companies depends on the category of technology intensity in contrast to small and medium-size enterprises.