Four studies on ICT labor markets show how technology makes a difference to growth. Different skills are entrenched into the broader economy in their own ways. Technologies in mature manufacturing industries change slowly and employment growth has smaller knock-on effects than those in new...

Purpose – Qualitative and quantitative research on mobile phone use by youth worldwide has been a recurrent theme for social scientists since the early 1990s in the USA, Europe and some parts of Asia. However, very little work is known about this subject contextualized in the often more...

Transaction cost concepts have been deployed in information systems to analyze the impact of information technology on the organization of economic activity in markets and hierarchies. It has been widely observed that there is a general trend toward markets. It has also been observed that the...

Recent technological developments in Thailand fall into three categories. First, early industrialisation promoted efficiency and employment in Thai industries. However, this did not support skills development among the Thai work-force. Second, the government became increasingly involved in the...

The pharmaceutical industry adopted technology in markedly different ways in Germany, the United States, and Britain. During the early 20th century, useful knowledge became a commercial asset, but British intellectual property and drug regulation laws created neither pressures nor rewards for...