Authors
María Teresa Ballestar, Aida García-Lazaro, Jorge Sainz, Ismael Sanz
Publication date
2022/3/1
Journal
Journal of Business Research
Volume
142
Pages
328-343
Publisher
Elsevier
Description
The impact of companies’ adoption of robotics is increasingly interesting. This study aims to elucidate how the adoption of these technologies will affect companies and society. Companies that use these technologies expect to gain a competitive advantage, but robotization implies risks that must be managed by companies and governments. This research focuses on one of the most sensitive elements of this transformation process—the workforce.
First, we analyze the characteristics of the workforce and the degree of adoption of robotics using a sample of 4,640 firms with 26 years of observation. We develop a predictive model using a supervised artificial neural network multilayer perceptron (ANN-MLP) to evaluate a company’s readiness to make this transformation according to its workforce’s characteristics.
Second, we focus on the characterization and segmentation of the companies for which the ANN-MLP is …
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