TY  - JOUR
T1  - Effect of Information and Communication Technology on Firms Performance in Iran
AU - Voghouei, Hatra AU - Ali Jamali, Mohammad AU - Sharifi, Hamid 
JO  - Asian Journal of Information Technology
VL  - 20
IS  - 4
SP  - 103
EP  - 111
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1682-3915
DO  - ajit.2021.103.111
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=ajit.2021.103.111
KW  - ICT
KW  -firm performance
KW  -generalized moments method
KW  -chain management
KW  -manufacturing units
AB  - During the last decades, the technological
revolution forces industries and enterprises to use
technology-based processes and equipment to overgrow.
Production chain management with the use of information
and communication technology equips production tools
with new technologies. The usage of information and
communication technology in industries and
manufacturing enterprises in developed countries and
countries whose industries have grown significantly,
since, the 1990s have caused significant changes in
improving product quality, increasing productivity and
reducing time in the manufacturing sector. At the same
tie, they could overcome their weaknesses with the
benefits of ICT and stand in the right place in the
economy. This study tries to study the impact of
Information and Communication Technology (ICT) on the
Iranian manufacturing sector. In this research, the effect
of ICT on firm performance (manufacturing units with ten
employees and more) has been investigated. By
considering data of 22 sectors during 2008-2016 and
employing the GMM method, the impact of ICT
application’s usage on the income growth has been
assessed. The results showed that hardware and software
usage, communication technology has a positive and
significant effect on income growth. While fixed capital
formation, employment, exchange rate and R&D have a
positive and significant impact, the producer price index
has a negative and significant effect on income growth.
ER  -