Adoption of Information and Communication Technologies and New Organizational Practices in the Tunisian Manufacturing Sector

Adel Ben Youssef (1) , Walid Hadhri (2) , Hatem M'Henni (3)

1 GREDEG - Groupe de Recherche en Droit, Economie et Gestion
2 UAQUAP - Unité de Recherche en Analyses Quantitatives Appliquées à la l'Economie et à la Gestion
3 LARIME - Laboratoire de Recherche Interdisciplinaire sur les Mutations des Economies et des Entreprises [Tunis]

The aim of this paper is to explore the relationship between the adoption of Information Technologies (IT) and the adoption of New Organizational Practices (NOP) in the context of an emerging country (Tunisia). Based on face-to-face questionnaire, to a random sample of 175 Tunisian manufactures, and using an ordered logit model, our empirical results show a significant link between IT adoption and NOP. We show that the complementarity is strengthened when the technology evolves. Adoption and usage of latest technologies are pushed by the prior adoption of NOP.

Mots clés: OrdredLogit Model; ICT adoption; O33; O31; New Organizational Practices JEL Classification: L21; ICT usage

Domaines: Economies et finances

Adel Ben Youssef, Walid Hadhri, Hatem M'Henni. Adoption of Information and Communication Technologies and New Organizational Practices in the Tunisian Manufacturing Sector. Economics Bulletin, 2014, Vol 34 (4), pp.2237-2252. ⟨halshs-01079373⟩