This thesis examines how investments in IT, and the digitization of information flows, have affected health care productivity. Through empirical investigations of health care processes – along with discussions based on notions derived from theories related to e.g. economics, the Productivity Paradox, General Purpose Technologies, and medical informatics – effects from digitization are detected ...

The information systems “productivity paradox” has become an important catalyst for research within the IS field. This study examines how the paradox has impacted IS research through a content analysis of 150 articles published between 1996 and 2006 that cite Brynjolfsson and Hitt’s seminal productivity paradox paper (e.g., Brynjolfsson and Hitt 1996). The results show that the original paradox...

Although Industry 4.0 and other initiatives predict widespread adoption of digitalised technology on the factory floor, few companies use new production holistically in their ecosystems; practical implementation, often decide against digitalisation for financial reasons. This is due to a paradox (akin so called “productivity paradox”) caused by complexity value creation delivery within producti...

Using a standard definition of productivity growth, it is shown that a country may have higher productivity growth than another country in each sector, but may have a lower productivity growth rate overall. Also, it is shown that popular methods for aggregating firm/industry estimates of productivity growth have a serious problem in that productivity of all firms/industries can go up, but aggre...