Abstract
The UK has suffered declining growth in productivity over many decades and there have been several attempts to study the reason for this declining growth in UK productivity. Various potential reasons including the transition to lower productivity sectors and the lack of sufficient high-skilled workers have been suggested to explain the productivity puzzle. One factor affecting productivity is firm investment in technology, an area where the evidence remains decidedly mixed. This paper presents the background to an ongoing project investigating the link between technology adoption, decision making and in-firm productivity. The project proposes to pair organisations with high productivity with organisations with low productivity and seeks to find out whether mentoring between senior managements teams from the high productivity category can yield a positive outcome for organisations with low productivity.
Recommended Citation
Kutar, Maria; Griffiths, Marie; Syme, Tony; Krishnan-Harihara, Subrahmaniam; Bahl, Aadya; and Ojutiku, Toluwanimi, "Exploring the Productivity Puzzle: The Relationship between Technology Investment and Organisational Productivity in UK SMEs" (2024). UK Academy for Information Systems Conference Proceedings 2024. 10.
https://aisel.aisnet.org/ukais2024/10