caa a22 4500 445877685 CHVBK 20180317145532.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20111001xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11187-009-9246-y doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11187-009-9246-y Meyer Jenny Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW), L7, 1,68161, Mannheim, Germany aut Workforce age and technology adoption in small and medium-sized service firms [Elektronische Daten] [Jenny Meyer] This paper provides empirical evidence on the relationship between the age structure of the workforce and the adoption of new or significantly improved technologies. Moreover, it attempts to identify the role of teamwork in this relationship. The econometric analysis is based on data of 356 small and medium-sized German firms from the knowledge-intensive services and ICT services sectors. The results show that, compared to employees younger than 30 years, an older workforce is negatively related to the probability of technology adoption. On the contrary, the dispersion of the employees' age within the workforce seems not to be connected with the probability of technology adoption. However, in firms with intensive use of teamwork a homogenous workforce in terms of age is positively related to the probability of technology adoption. Springer Science+Business Media, LLC., 2009 Age structure of the workforce nationallicence Adoption of new technologies nationallicence ICT and knowledge-intensive services nationallicence Small Business Economics Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 37/3(2011-10-01), 305-324 0921-898X 37:3<305 2011 37 11187 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-009-9246-y text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-009-9246-y text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Meyer Jenny Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW), L7, 1,68161, Mannheim, Germany aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Small Business Economics Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 37/3(2011-10-01), 305-324 0921-898X 37:3<305 2011 37 11187 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer