The Diffusion of Information and Communication Technologies (Routledge Studies in Technology, Work and Organizations) - Hardcover

Lechman, Ewa

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1138202150 ISBN 13: 9781138202153

Publisher: Routledge, 2017

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

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

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1138202150
• ISBN 13: 9781138202153
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 232