scholarly journals Innovation for Inclusive Structural Change

2021 ◽  
pp. 349-376
Author(s):  
Tommaso Ciarli ◽  
Maria Savona ◽  
Jodie Thorpe
Keyword(s):  
Structural Change ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Innovation Policy ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Inclusive Development ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Adoption And Diffusion ◽  
Increasing Demand ◽  
The Impact ◽  
And Diffusion

The chapter proposes the foundations of an analytical framework to identify innovation pathways that lead to inclusive structural change in low- and medium-income countries (LMICs). Innovation pathways depend on how actors, interactions, and conditions affect the origin of innovation; the uptake of the innovations (adoption and diffusion); the impact of this diffusion on upgrading; the extent to which technological upgrading scales up to drive structural change and inclusion; the complementarity among these processes; and the potential trade-offs between structural change and inclusion. After delineating the analytical framework, the chapter focuses on applications of the framework to identify typical trade-offs between inclusion and structural change, and policy options to tackle these trade-offs and achieve outcomes of inclusive structural change. We finally propose a research agenda to build upon the framework and directly inform policies for inclusive structural change. The contribution of this work aims to respond to the recently increasing demand coming from international institutions, inter-departmental research funds, NGOs and national ministries, for improved knowledge to shape a more effective innovation policy for inclusive development in LMICs.

The economies (and diseconomies) of distributed technologies

Kybernetes ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 46 (5) ◽  
pp. 767-785 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sergio Barile ◽  
Cristina Simone ◽  
Mario Calabrese
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Integration ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Loss Of Control ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Organizational Perspective ◽  
Consistent Model ◽  
Adoption And Diffusion ◽  
The One ◽  
And Diffusion ◽  
Distributed Technologies

Purpose This paper aims to focus on distributed technologies with the aim of highlighting their economic-organizational dimensions. In particular, the contribution first presents a deeper understanding of the nature and the dynamics of the economies and diseconomies that arise from the adoption and diffusion of distributed technologies. Second, it aims to shed light on the increasing tension between the hierarchy-based model of production and peer-to-peer (p2p) production, which involves the pervasive diffusion of distributed technologies. Design/methodology/approach Adopting an economic-organizational perspective, which is deeply rooted in the related extant literature, an analytically consistent model is developed to simultaneously take into account the following variables: adoption density independent variable) and economies of knowledge integration and organizational diseconomies (the costs of a loss of control and the costs of organizational decoupling and recoupling) as dependent variables. Findings Distributed technologies allow access to a large quantity and a wide variety of cognitive slacks that have not been possible until now. In doing so, they are leading the transition towards p2p. This is an emerging production paradigm that is characterized – with respect to mass production – by a shift in the relative importance of cognitive slack in comparison with tangible slack. Nevertheless, the unrestrainable diffusion of distributed technologies is not neutral for organizations. On the one hand, these technologies allow for the integration of economies of knowledge, and on the other hand, they involve organizational diseconomies that should not be ignored by managers and researchers. Originality/value This paper fills a gap in the literature by developing a consistent analytical framework that simultaneously takes into account the economies of knowledge integration and potential organizational diseconomies (the costs of coordination and the loss of control) that arise from the adoption and diffusion of distributed technologies.

Extending the Technology Acceptance Model Beyond Its Country of Origin

2002 ◽  
pp. 158-183 ◽  
Author(s):  
Said S. Al-Gahtani
Keyword(s):  
Technology Acceptance ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Empirical Test ◽  
Main Body ◽  
It Adoption ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Adoption And Diffusion ◽  
Acceptance Model ◽  
The Impact ◽  
And Diffusion

This study is an attempt to theoretically and empirically test the applicability of TAM in the Western Europe culture. Thus the study objectives are: 1) to propose whether TAM may well apply to the Western Europe culture using the work of Hofstede on culture’s consequences by exploring the impact of cultural differences on the adoption and diffusion of IT-based innovations such as spreadsheets; 2) to empirically test the applicability of TAM in the United Kingdom as a representative country for the Western Europe culture; and 3) to conclude about the applicability of TAM in selected countries of Western Europe based on these theoretical and empirical endeavors. Therefore, the current study consists of two main parts: I) a theoretical part where IT adoption and diffusion is put in perspective in relation to cultural consequences, and II) an empirical part where an empirical test is carried out in a representative country of the Western Europe region. The study starts with a brief background on spreadsheets and the role they played in the diffusion of computer technology into organizations and sufficient literature about TAM (including its initiation, objective, popularity, and structure) before getting into the main body of the study.

scholarly journals The Impact of Management on Farm Expansion and Survival

1975 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wesley N. Musser ◽  
Fred C. White
Keyword(s):  
Structural Change ◽  
Firm Growth ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Primary Objective ◽  
Managerial Ability ◽  
Commercial Agriculture ◽  
South Central ◽  
Technological Improvements ◽  
On Farm ◽  
The Impact

Commercial agriculture is undergoing a major structural change in the form of decreasing numbers and increasing sizes of farm units. This structural change results in farm firms constantly experiencing expansion and survival problems. In some cases, expansion and survival are related: growth in size is necessary to incorporate cost-reducing technological improvements to maintain income levels. In others, these problems are separated: expansion is desired to increase income-earning capacity, or survival may be a primary objective for the firm when expansion is unlikely. This paper develops an analytical framework, incorporating the dynamics of expansion and survival, and explores their interrelationships. Stochastic relationships are incorporated for use in conceptualizing simulation studies of firm growth. Its empirical relevance is demonstrated with an analysis of the interaction between managerial ability and leverage in the process of expansion and survival of a representative farm firm in South Central Georgia.

scholarly journals Gossip, Reputation, and Sustainable Cooperation

2019 ◽  
pp. 21-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francesca Giardini ◽  
Rafael Wittek
Keyword(s):  
Research Agenda ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
The Other ◽  
Sociological Research ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
Reputation Effects ◽  
The One ◽  
And Control ◽  
The Impact

Gossip is often invoked as playing a fundamental role for creating, sustaining, or destroying cooperation. The reason seems straightforward: gossip can make or break someone’s reputation. This chapter puts this standard reputational model to closer scrutiny. It argues that there are at least three other models to consider, and it presents an analytical framework to disentangle similarities and differences between these models. Explicating all three roles in the gossip triad, it allows to distinguish (a) individual motives behind gossiping, (b) its reputation effects on the actors, (c) the impact of gossip and reputation on the quality and sustainability of cooperation, and (d) the role of the context. Applying the framework reveals a deep divide between reputation and punishment models propagated by experimental economics and evolutionary psychology, on the one hand, and coalition and control models informed by sociology, on the other hand. The chapter discusses implications for a sociological research agenda.

scholarly journals Understanding the Effects of Fare Discount Schemes to Metro Transit Ridership Based on Structural Change Analysis

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Zhe Li ◽  
Weifeng Li ◽  
Qing Yu
Keyword(s):  
Structural Change ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Mode Conversion ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Change Points ◽  
Financial Industry ◽  
Change Analysis ◽  
Transit Ridership ◽  
Initial Stage ◽  
The Impact

Since fare discounts have been regarded as an effective economical measure to increase passenger flow, it is helpful for local governments and transit operators to understand its impact on ridership. Taking Xiamen, China, as an example, this study uses transaction data to analyze the changes of weekday daily metro ridership after the opening of Xiamen Metro Line 1. At the initial stage of operation of Xiamen Metro Line 1, there are three preferential schemes: discount per trip, money reduced per trip, and discount after reaching the accumulated fare. Therefore, the algorithm of the iterated cumulative sums of squares is introduced to identify structural change points of the time series of daily ridership, which varies according to the type of ticket. The effects of different fare discounts on total ridership and ridership varied by ticket types are analyzed by the regression discontinuity method. The results show that the dates of structural change points are well-matched with the start and end dates of preferential schemes. Each preferential scheme has its own benefited groups. During the fare discount period, the number of passengers gradually increased. But after the cancellation of the favorable preferential scheme, the number of passengers decreased sharply. By understanding the impact of fare discounts on ridership in Xiamen, China, several metro ticketing policy recommendations are put forward, including raising the focus on E-Tickets, formulating more attractive preferential measures to promote the mode conversion of private cars and vehicles to metro, paying attention to high-frequency passengers, and seeking common subsidies from the financial industry to achieve a win-win situation. In addition, the analytical framework proposed in this study can be used to evaluate the effectiveness of other transportation policies in the future.

scholarly journals Regional Innovation Systems in Policy Laboratories

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pyka Andreas ◽  
Matthias Mueller ◽  
Muhamed Kudic
Keyword(s):  
Diffusion Processes ◽  
Innovation Policy ◽  
Policy Instruments ◽  
Knowledge Generation ◽  
Innovation Networks ◽  
Regional Innovation ◽  
The Impact ◽  
And Diffusion ◽  
Innovation Processes ◽  
New View

Innovation policy and business strategy often expect that investing in private and public research and development will immediately produce a flow of products and processes with high commercial and social returns. Policymakers and managers implicitly follow the logic underlying most linear innovation models assuming a well-defined and uni-directional relationship between R&D spending as input and innovation rents as output of the innovation process. Modern innovation economics dismisses the simplified approximation of knowledge by R&D investment and, instead, considers complex knowledge generation and diffusion processes in innovation networks. From this angle, the disappointing performance of traditional approaches is traced back to strong limits of conventional steering, control, and policy instruments. In this paper, we show that the new view of knowledge generation and diffusion in innovation networks allows for an alternative and has led to systemic approaches in innovation analyses. Combined with computational approaches like agent-based modeling, this new view enables today innovative tools in policy consulting. Using the example of regional innovation policy, we introduce a policy laboratory in which innovation processes can be analyzed in depth to see the impact of different innovation policy instruments in-silico. This ex-ante evaluation helps considerably to improve the understanding of innovation processes and with it the performance of innovation policy.

Dawn of E-Government – an Institutional Analysis of Seven Initiatives and Their Impact

2007 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helle Zinner Henriksen ◽  
Jan Damsgaard
Keyword(s):  
It Adoption ◽  
Pedagogical Intervention ◽  
Ripple Effects ◽  
Governmental Agencies ◽  
Policy Statements ◽  
Adoption And Diffusion ◽  
The Right ◽  
Voluntary Adoption ◽  
The Impact ◽  
And Diffusion

Most countries have defined strategies for e-government. The objectives for implementing e-government are often defined but the means for fuelling the adoption and diffusion of e-government are typically less well clear in the policy statements. The present study assesses the impact of latest Danish initiative implemented to stimulate e-government adoption. The e-Day initiative simply yet powerfully states that ‘one governmental authority has the right to demand that its communication with another authority must be in electronic format’ which is expected to create ripple effects both internally and externally. The e-Day initiative represents a drastic change in the former policy statements concerning IT adoption and diffusion in Danish government. The policy statements had previously been based on voluntary adoption focusing on visions and pedagogical intervention in governmental agencies, but the e-Day initiative marked a departure from that strategy and the carrot has been exchanged by the whip, and the voice is imperative.

Networks and Electronic Commerce Adoption in Small Businesses

2005 ◽  
pp. 2085-2094
Author(s):  
Lejla Vrazalic ◽  
Deborah Bunker
Keyword(s):  
Electronic Commerce ◽  
Small Businesses ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Global Market ◽  
Critical Area ◽  
Important Indicator ◽  
Market Turbulence ◽  
Adoption And Diffusion ◽  
The Impact ◽  
And Diffusion

The adoption and diffusion of electronic commerce (e-commerce) in small businesses remains a critical area of investigation in information systems (IS) literature. A number of studies (Miles, Preece, & Baetz, 1999; Overby & Min, 2001) have suggested that in order to accommodate a technologically uncertain and globally focussed economy brought on by the advent of e-commerce, many small businesses are turning toward some form of alliance or network where the locus of the impact of change is interorganisational rather than organisational. Alliances or networks are formed entities that have a defined set of shared values, roles, responsibilities, and governance. Through involvement in such networks, small businesses not only find a ready source of technical and marketing expertise, but the very nature of the network “buffers” the impact of global market turbulence. This would suggest that belonging to a network is an important indicator of successful e-commerce adoption. However, a number of authors (Drakopoulou-Dodd, Jack, & Anderson, 2002; Dennis, 2000; McBer & Company as cited in Dennis, 2000) have found that many small businesses avoid network arrangements. Despite the widespread existence of networks, no research studies to date have formally compared networked and nonnetworked small businesses in relation to e-commerce adoption. This article presents the results of an exploratory study that aims to correct this oversight.

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