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productive capacity for better living conditions of their citizens. For countries to improve their economies, they&#xd;
need to boost their economic complexity by producing and exporting commodities that embody sophisticated&#xd;
characteristics. The economic complexity index measures how diverse products are and include their ubiquity&#xd;
when they are exported. Economic complexity provides reasons why some countries progress very slowly by&#xd;
studying the characteristics of countries export baskets. This study seeks to find out if the investment in information&#xd;
systems can influence the South African economic complexity. The set objective employs the autoregressive&#xd;
distributive lag (ARDL) methodology. Results of the ARDL bounds test gave an F-statistic of 7.17 greater than&#xd;
the upper bound and this indicated a long run relationship in the series. Furthermore, investment in information&#xd;
systems had a significant positive relationship to economic complexity with a speed of adjustment of 87%.&#xd;
Investing in information system has proved to be innovative and contribute to firm output and labour productivity.&#xd;
Furthermore, information technology improves organizational performance, reduce production cost and improve&#xd;
the production of all personnel and ultimately increase the efficiency of human capital. The positive relationship&#xd;
between information systems and economic complexity is a good indicator that South Africa can enhance its&#xd;
complexity through information systems activities. It is therefore, recommended that the government of South&#xd;
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