The Diffusion of Information and Communication Technologies

di Ewa Lechman (Autore)

Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2017

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.

• Autore: Ewa Lechman
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Collana: Routledge Studies in Technology, Work and Organizations
• Anno: 2017
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 232 p.
• Dimensioni: 229 x 152 mm
• Peso: 500 gr.
• EAN: 9781138202153

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