Work in progress
Doms is beginning a rather large project examining the relationship between technology use and firm performance. This study will use a very large data set on technology use at the establishment level between 1980 and 2002. The study will first examine the diffusion of IT technologies over the past several decades, then examine the relationship between the adoption of various IT technologies and firm performance for a sample of publicly traded companies. Doms also is examining models of IT investment at the national level; this involves testing the various hypotheses surrounding the 1990s surge and 2001 sharp drop in IT investment.