Institutional elasticity as a significant driver of IT functionality development

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

Volumn 71, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 723-750

  Watanabe, Chihiro ^a   Kondo, Reiko ^b   Ouchi, Noritomo ^a   Wei, Haihong ^a   Griffy Brown, Charla ^c  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications   (Japan)

^c PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Epidemic behavior; Information society; Institutional elasticity; IT functionality; Self propagation

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; STRATEGIC PLANNING; TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER;

INFORMATION BASED SOCIETIES; INSTITUTIONAL SYSTEMS;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; INNOVATION; TECHNOLOGY DIFFUSION;

EID: 3242685868     PISSN: 00401625     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1625(02)00306-2     Document Type: Article

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