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Cover 1 Title 4 Copyright 5 Dedication 6 Contents 8 List of figures 10 List of tables 11 Acknowledgements 12 1 Introduction 14 1.1 Why Asia? 14 1.2 The phenomenon of technological substitution 17 1.3 The goals 18 1.4 Structure and contents 20 2 Conceptual and contextual framework 26 2.1 Society and technology as evolutionary system. Explaining techno-economic paradigms 26 2.2 Some thoughts on technology diffusion and network externalities 32 2.3 ICT as metaphorical network technologies 37 3 Identifying ICT diffusion and substitution patterns 47 3.1 Data and methodological settings 47 3.2 ICT development – trends and preliminary statistics 55 3.3 ICT diffusion and technological substitution patterns – country-specific evidence 64 4 Elucidating ‘network effects’ and ICT diffusion determinants in Asia 94 4.1 Data and methodological settings 94 4.2 ‘Network effects’ and ICT diffusion determinants 98 5 Drawing lessons from this book 120 5.1 ICT development in Asia – moving ahead? 120 5.2 Technological substitution – myth or fact? 122 5.3 What determined ICT diffusion? 123 Appendix 1 126 Appendix 2 144 Appendix 3 145 Appendix 4 146 Index 148

Author

Lechman, Ewa

Language

EN