The primary goal of this paper is to explore the microeconomic foundation of Korean firms' adoption of foreign technologies. The paper also reviews the overall trend of international technology transfers to Korea. The period covered in this paper is Korea's high growth era, from the 1960s to the...

The digital (or 4th industrial) revolution has made industrialisation harder by being less consequential for structural transformation than was initially hoped. The rise of digital platform capitalism and its relation to global value chains (GVCs) is responsible for this. This paper explains why...

Research Question - This study is an appraisal of XBRL existing literature to find out what exists and what is lacking in the literature regarding the incentives of XBRL adoption, and its consequences. Motivation - The literature has not fully investigated the incentives of XBRL adoption and its...

The logistics industry in Europe is under constant scrutiny due to the impact of digitalizing business processes and the globalization of competing markets, especially China and the USA. Therefore, the constant optimization of corporate legacy processes and, subsequently, the reduction of...

The shrinking of the German manufacturing sector due to the new energy crisis is currently a hotly debated topic. The aim of this article is to contribute to this emotional debate by providing evidence on recent developments in the German manufacturing sector. The analysis of relevant data...

Cloud-Computing ist für Unternehmen eine kostengünstige und flexible Art der IT-Nutzung, ohne dass Investitionen in die eigene, teure und starre IT-Infrastruktur notwendig sind. Daher wird erwartet, dass die Nutzung von Cloud-Diensten sich in geringeren IT-Investitionen niederschlägt und...

Artificial intelligence defines a new age of technological and economic progress, but also causes disruptive effects on businessmodels, industries, and the society in general. It is argued that in order to make AI a productive and progressive technology regulatory as wellas educational...

Purpose: The major purpose of the paper is to explore, identify and highlight the general and specialized (sector-specific) long-term technology trends following the evolution of technology-intensive sectors in Greece during the last years. In a similar vein, sectoral differentiations have been...

Impact of the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) on economic growth, recently attracted high research intererst. Thus, it has been found that in the case of developed European economies the considered impact is significant. In general, ICT diffusion has significant impact on the...

Empirical evidence in Dauth et al. (J Eur Econ Assoc, 2021) suggests that industrial robot adoption in Germany has led to a sectoral reallocation of employment from manufacturing to services, leaving total employment unaffected. We rationalize this evidence through the lens of a general...