Technological Substitution in Asia

Ewa Lechman (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

140 Seiten

2017
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-69695-2 (ISBN)

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This book provides extensive evidence on information and communication technologies development diffusion patterns across Asian economies over the period 1960-2015. It concentrates on identification of country-specific ICT diffusion trajectories and unveils characteristics phases and dynamics of the process.

Over last few decades, the world has witnessed, the process of rapid diffusion of new information and communication technologies (ICT) that enforced remarkable changes and structural shifts going far beyond economic sphere of life. ICT become fast available widespread and rapidly growing access to and use of ICT, additionally enhances the process of technological substitution, which consists in switching from the ‘old’ to ‘new’ technological solutions. The on-going digital revolution, undeniably, pervasively impacts and reshapes societies and economies, hence deserves special attention and interest. This book provides extensive evidence on information and communication technologies development diffusion patterns, unveils specific ‘network effects’ that enhance rapid spread of ICT, and detect major macroeconomic determinants of this process, across 36 Asian economies over the period 1980-2015. Moreover, this research traces country-specific patterns of the unique process. We consider two types of technological substitution, namely: ‘fixed-to-mobile’ type technological substitution process encompasses switching from fixed telephony (‘old technology’) to mobile telephony (‘new technology’); while the ‘fixed-to-wireless’ type technological substitution – switching from fixed (narrowband and/or broadband) fixed Internet networks (‘old technologies’) to wireless (mainly broadband) Internet networks (‘new technologies’). Moreover, this study empirically identifies the potential effect of selected macroeconomic factors, which may potentially enhance dynamic spread of ICT.

Ewa Lechman is an Associate Professor of Economics in the Faculty of Management and Economics, Gdańsk University of Technology, Poland. Her extensive research interests concentrate on economic development, ICT, and their role in reshaping social and economic systems and various aspects of poverty and economics in developing countries.

1. Introduction

2. Conceptual and Contextual Framework

3. Identifying ICT Diffusion and Substitution Patterns

4. Elucidating ‘Network Effects’ and ICT Diffusion Determinants in Asia

5. Drawing Lessons from this Book

Erscheinungsdatum	03.12.2017
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Frontiers of Business Management
Zusatzinfo	14 Tables, black and white; 9 Line drawings, black and white; 9 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Gewicht	440 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Unternehmensführung / Management
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
ISBN-10	1-138-69695-1 / 1138696951
ISBN-13	978-1-138-69695-2 / 9781138696952
Zustand	Neuware