This current study focuses on the relationship between a country's e-readiness environment and entrepreneurial activities. Many government policies assume there is a direct causal relationship between e-readiness and entrepreneurial activity and some past studies have reported evidence...

Infrastructures are complex networks dominated by tight interdependencies between technologies and institutions. These networks supply services crucial to modern societies, services that can be provided only if several critical functions are fulfilled. This book proposes a theoretical framework...

Digital technologies are being adopted at a faster pace than previous waves of innovation, and their use is re-shaping administration and business, consumer behaviour and social interactions. They are subject to widely varying regimes, from lightly regulated but heavily standardised global...

Die Standortwahl und die Ausstattung von Infrastruktureinrichtungen steht in vielfältigen und vor allem wechselseitigen Beziehungen zur Entwicklung der Mobilität. Verkehrliche Erreichbarkeit und zunehmend auch die Anbindungsmöglichkeiten an moderne und hochleistungsfähige Informations- und...

Some 2000 years ago, the average annual distance a person would normally travel, was approximately 500 km. The action radius of most people remained rather stable, but it rose gradually after the industrial revolution to some 1820 km (by car, bus, railway or aircraft) in the year 1960. Then, a...