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Beyond Late Development: Taiwan's Upgrading Policies

Amsden, Alice H.; Chu, Wan-wen - The MIT Press

how leading firms from the most advanced latecomer countries like Taiwan have increased their market share in mature high … the government policies and large-scale firms that drive skills, speed, and scale. R&D in Taiwan was usually undertaken in … entrepreneurs in Taiwan were nationally owned large-scale firms rather than multinational companies. …

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Productivity, Volume 3: Information Technology and the American Growth Resurgence

Jorgenson, Dale W.; Ho, Mun S.; Stiroh, Kevin J. - The MIT Press

The American economy has experienced renewed growth since 1995, with this surge rooted in the development and deployment of information technology (IT). This book traces the American growth resurgence to its sources within individual industries, documents the critical role of IT, and shows how...

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Understanding the Digital Economy: Data, Tools, and Research

Brynjolfsson, Erik (contributor); Kahin, Brian (contributor) - The MIT Press

The rapid growth of electronic commerce, along with changes in information, computing, and communications, is having a profound effect on the United States economy. President Clinton recently directed the National Economic Council, in consultation with executive branch agencies, to analyze the...

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Women and Information Technology: Research on Underrepresentation

Cohoon, J. McGrath (contributor); … - The MIT Press

Computing remains a heavily male-dominated field even after twenty-five years of extensive efforts to promote female participation. The contributors to Women and Information Technology look at reasons for the persistent gender imbalance in computing and explore some strategies intended to...

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Information Technology and People: Designing for the Future

Blackler, Frank (contributor); Oborne, David (contributor) - The MIT Press

Today's rapid growth in information technology has occurred without a full understanding of the human consequences of its use--on individuals, on organizations, and on society as a whole. As a result, initial expectations have frequently not been met, and a backlash has developed. Clearly a more...

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Our Modern Times: The Nature of Capitalism in the Information Age

Cohen, Daniel - The MIT Press

The "modern times" of the early twentieth century saw the rise of the assembly line and the belief that standardization would make the world a better place. Yet along with greater production efficiency came dehumanization, as the division of labor created many jobs requiring mindless repetition...

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Social Capital and Information Technology

Huysman, Marleen (contributor); Wulf, Volker (contributor) - The MIT Press

The concept of social capital, or the value that can be derived from social ties created by goodwill, mutual support, shared language, common beliefs, and a sense of mutual obligation, has been applied to a number of fields, from sociology to management. It is only lately, however, that...

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Beyond the Desktop Metaphor: Designing Integrated Digital Work Environments

Kaptelinin, Victor (contributor); … - The MIT Press

The computer's metaphorical desktop, with its onscreen windows and hierarchy of folders, is the only digital work environment most users and designers have ever known. Yet empirical studies show that the traditional desktop design does not provide sufficient support for today's real-life tasks...

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Transforming Enterprise

Dutton, William H. (contributor); Kahin, Brian (contributor) - The MIT Press

Innovators across all sectors of society are using information and communication technology to reshape economic and social activity. Even after the boom—and despite the bust—the process of structural change continues across organizational boundaries. Transforming Enterprise considers the...

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Wired for Innovation: How Information Technology is Reshaping the Economy

Brynjolfsson, Erik; Saunders, Adam - The MIT Press

Starting in 1995, productivity growth took off in the U.S. economy. In Wired for Innovation, Erik Brynjolfsson and Adam Saunders describe how information technology directly or indirectly created the lion's share of this productivity surge, reversing decades of slow growth. They argue that the...

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