Management Matters

New indications of managerial innovations are created and then used to show that changes in organizational technologies are an important source of economic growth. Specifically, the analysis demonstrates that, first, in response to a positive managerial technology shock, output, productivity and hours significantly increase in the short run, second, these types of innovations are as important as non-managerial ones in explaining movements in these variables at business cycle frequencies, and, third, product and process innovations promote the development of new managerial techniques.Business Cycles; Productivity; Management techniques; Technical Change

Read All About it!! What happens following a technology shock?

Existing indicators of technical change are plagued by shortcomings. I present here new measures based on books published in the field of technology that resolve many of these problems and use them to identify the impact of technology shocks on economic activity. They are positively linked to changes in R&D and scientific knowledge and capture the new technologies' commercialization dates. Changes in information technology are found to be important sources of economic fluctuations in the post-WWII period and total factor productivity, investment and, to a lesser extent, labor are all shown to increase following a positive technology shock.business cycles, technical change, information technologies

Thirty problems for subject interoperability (and a few possible solutions)

Using evidence, and subject terms, drawn from the IRIScotland project, this presentation illustrates and summarises numerous problems that arise when aggregating metadata records from different sources. It aims to identify and classify the causes and consequences of these problems and suggest some ways of improving subject interoperability

Volumes of Evidence - Examining Technical Change Last Century Through a New Lens

Although technical change is central in much of modern economics, traditional measures of it are, for a number of reasons, flawed. We discuss in this paper new indicators based on data drawn from the MARC records of the Library of Congress on the number of new technology titles in various fields published in the United States over the course of the last century. These indicators, we argue, overcome many of the shortcomings associated with patents, research and development expenditures, innovation counts, and productivity figures. We find, among other things, the following: the pattern and nature of technical change described by our indicators is, on the whole, consistent with that of other measures; they represent innovation not diffusion; a strong causal relationship between our indicators and changes in TFP and output per capita; innovations in some sub-groups have had a greater impact on output and productivity than others and, moreover, the key players have changed over time. Our indicators can be used to shed light on number of important issues including the empirical relationship between technology shocks and employment, the role of technology in cross-country productivity differences, and the part played by technological change in growing skills premia in the U.S. during the last few decades.Business Cycles, Technical change, productivity, measurement

Annual Report 1996-1997

An administrative report of statistics and information pertaining to the University of North Florida Thomas G. Carpenter Library for the years 1996-1997.The report includes summaries and charts on library budgets, library collection, serials and cataloging workloads, circulation, interlibrary loan, and public services

Annual Report 1995-1996

An administrative report of statistics and information pertaining to the University of North Florida Thomas G. Carpenter Library for the years 1995-1996. The report includes summaries and charts on library budgets, library collection, serials and cataloging workloads, circulation, interlibrary loan, and public services

Annual Report 1991-1992

An administrative report of statistics and information pertaining to the University of North Florida Thomas G. Carpenter Library for the years 1991-1992. The report includes summaries and charts on library budgets, library collection, serials and cataloging workloads, circulation, interlibrary loan, and public services