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Technology and Productivity: The Korean Way of Learning and Catching Up

Lim, Youngil - The MIT Press

In this book Youngil Lim explores the process by which the poverty-stricken agrarian economy of South Korea was transformed over the past three decades into a semi-industrial urban economy. The chief questions Lim addresses are: Where did South Korea's technological knowledge come from? What did...

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Technology Choice in Developing Countries: The Textile and Pulp and Paper Industries

Amsalem, Michel A. - The MIT Press

A developing country's choice of an appropriate technology from among those available for use in a particular industry …

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Japan's Technological Challenge to the West, 1950-1974: Motivation and Accomplishment

Ozawa, Terutomo - The MIT Press

policy of importing technology for the development of key industries, government controls on imports and on foreign … technology and trade of Japan's rising competitiveness in the world market. …

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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 … information technology in creating and using knowledge—especially knowledge that leads to innovation; then, new organizational … structural changes in specific sectors, including the effect of information technology on the automotive industry, demand …

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Internet Architecture and Innovation

van Schewick, Barbara - The MIT Press

The Internet's remarkable growth has been fueled by innovation. New applications continually enable new ways of using the Internet, and new physical networking technologies increase the range of networks over which the Internet can run. Questions about the relationship between innovation and the...

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

Cohen, Daniel - The MIT Press

, a comparable revolution has been wrought by information technology. In Our Modern Times, Daniel Cohen traces the roots …, information technology had created decentralized work structures that encouraged autonomy and personal initiative. But with this … greater flexibility came the psychic stress and burnout of "24/7." Cohen explores the many ways that the new technology has …

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The Internet Upheaval: Raising Questions, Seeking Answers in Communications Policy

Vogelsang, Ingo (contributor); … - The MIT Press

At the beginning of 2000, the U.S. economy was enjoying the longest period of sustained growth and economic prosperity in its history. According to The Internet Upheaval, part of the explanation for this phenomenon is a consequence of how information technologies, in particular the Internet, are...

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The Information Revolution and Developing Countries

III, Ernest J. Wilson - The MIT Press

In this book Ernest Wilson provides a clear, nuanced analysis of the major transformations resulting from the global information revolution. He shows that the information revolution is rooted in societal dynamics, political interests, and social structure. Using the innovative Strategic...

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The Global Internet Economy

Kogut, Bruce (contributor) - The MIT Press

globalization of finance, corporate governance, and trade raises questions about national models of technology development and … interests: Technology was global, but its economic and business development was molded in the context of prevailing national …

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Perspectives on Free and Open Source Software

Feller, Joseph (contributor); Fitzgerald, Brian (contributor) - The MIT Press

What is the status of the Free and Open Source Software (F/OSS) revolution? Has the creation of software that can be freely used, modified, and redistributed transformed industry and society, as some predicted, or is this transformation still a work in progress? Perspectives on Free and Open...

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