The Diffusion of Information and Communication Technologies

1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-0-367-88957-9
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 248 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 365 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Technology, Work and Organizations

In recent decades, the world has witnessed, unprecedented in terms of speed and geographic coverage, diffusion of new information and communication technologies (ICT). The on-going digital revolution pervasively impacts and reshapes societies and economies and therefore deserves special attention and interest.

This book provides extensive evidence on information and communication technologies development patterns and dynamics of this process across developed economies over the period 1980 to the present day. It adopts newly developed methodology to identification of the ‘critical mass’ and isolation of technological takeoff intervals, which are intimately related to the process of technology diffusion. The statistically robust analysis of country-specific data demonstrates the key economic, social and institutional prerequisites of ICT diffusion across examined countries, indicating what factors significantly foster or – reversely – hinder the process.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lechman, Ewa

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik EDV & Informatik Allgemein
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Wissensmanagement

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1.Introduction

2.Technology and Economic Development-Historical Perspective

3.Technology Diffusion. Conceptual Aspects

4. Identifying ICT Diffusion Patterns. Linking Models to Data for Technology

5.Technological Take-Offs. Country’s Perspective

6.What Have We Learnt from This Books?

Über Autor(innen)

Ewa Lechman is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Management and Economics at Gdansk University of Technology, Poland.