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Industrial and Corporate Change, Volume 11, Number 4, pp. 761-789
© 2002 Oxford University Press

Advanced technology use and firm performance in Canadian manufacturing in the 1990s

John R. Baldwin and David Sabourin

Correspondence: J. Baldwin: Micro-Economic Analysis Division, Statistics Canada 24-B R.H. Coats Building, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1A 0T6; john.baldwin{at}statcan.ca.

Abstract

This paper investigates the evolution of industrial structure in Canadian manufacturing and its relationship to technological change. It does so by examining the extent to which plants that make greater use of advanced technologies experience higher growth in market share and productivity. Using recent survey data on technology use at the plant level, the study finds that establishments that had adopted advanced manufacturing technologies by the end of the 1990s, particularly network communications technologies, had superior productivity growth throughout the decade. In turn, gains in relative productivity were accompanied by gains in market share.


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