During the past two decades, the world has witnessed a significant change in the nature of the technological and administrative practices and processes faced by organisations in different areas of their operations, such as manufacturing processes, operation technologies, and information systems (Shields, 1997). To keep pace with other competitors in the global market, organisations are keen to ...

This paper examines the usage and diffusion of Government Credit Information Systems (GCIS) in district-level governments in shanghai. The diffusion of GCIS was studied from a process-oriented perspective. A System Dynamics (SD) model is developed to simulate the relationships of technological, organizational and environmental, and institutional factors on GCIS diffusion under different managem...

Technological change drives long-term economic growth, productivity and improvement in living standards. At the same time, the emergence and diffusion of new ideas, products and production techniques throughout the economy entails a process of " creative destruction ". New technologies destroy jobs in some industries, especially among the low-skilled, while creating jobs which are often in diff...

We introduce the concept of entropy rate to characterize a diffusion process on a complex network. The entropy rate represents the minimal amount of information necessary to describe the diffusion on the network, and is a quantity extremely sensitive to the network topology and dynamics. By opportunely tuning the kind of diffusion, the entropy rate allows one to extract different properties of ...

A simple model of diffusion of innovations in a social network with upgrading costs is introduced. Agents are characterized by a single real variable, their technological level. According to local information, agents decide whether to upgrade their level or not, balancing their possible benefit with the upgrading cost. A critical point where technological avalanches display a power-law behavior...

There is controversy among scientists whether standards and regulations hamper or stimulate innovation. We investigate the direct effect of standards and regulations on the development and diffusion of radically new high-tech products. The radicalness and degree of inter-relatedness of the technology in these products are found to moderate this direct effect. The focus is on pre-existing standa...

Champions of XML have argued that the standard has the potential to influence interbusiness communications more than any other protocol in recent history. The improved structure and efficiency of XML, compared to comma separated value or electronic data interchange transmissions, are difficult to negate. However, diffusion of XML has been far less than anticipated. This study attempts to identi...

The adoption and diffusion of technological knowledge is generally regarded as a key element in a country’s economic success. However, as is the case with most types of information, the transfer of technological knowledge is likely to be subject to adverse selection problems. In this paper we examine whether asymmetric information regarding who knows how to run a new technology efficiently can ...

Although standards can inhibit innovation under certain circumstances, recent research shows that, more generally, they play critical roles in supporting technological innovation and industrial emergence. Hence, there has been an increasing interest in advancing knowledge of the roles of standards in emerging technologies; however, there is as yet limited understanding of how and when different...

Yoshida for their constant guidance and advice during research. for their warm friendship and constant supports during my three years in Kyoto University. My profound gratitude goes to the Ministry of Education, Sports, and Culture of Japan for providing me with the scholarship to study in Japan for three years. Finally, my deepest sense of gratitude goes to my parents. iii iv Executive Summary...