How revolutionary was the digital revolution? : national responses, market transitions, and global technology / edited by John Zysman and Abraham Newman.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 415-448) and index.

Frameworks for understanding the political economy of the digital era / Abraham Newman and John Zysman -- Creating value in a digital era : how do wealthy nations stay wealthy? / John Zysman -- Finland's emergence as a global information technology player : lessons from the Finnish wireless cluster / Ari Hyytinen [and others] -- An old consensus in the "new" economy? Institutional adaptation, technological innovation and economic restructuring in Finland / Darius Ornston and Olli Rehn -- Telecom competition in world markets : understanding Japan's decline / Robert E. Cole -- Japan's telecommunications regime shift : understanding Japan's potential resurgence / Kenji Kushida -- The emerging economies in the digital era : marketplaces, market players, and market makers / Naazneen Barma -- Missed opportunity : Enron's disastrous refusal to build a collaborative market / Andrew Schwartz -- The relocation of service provision to developing nations : the case of India / Rafiq Dossani and Martin Kenney -- From Linux to Lipitor : Pharma and the coming reconfiguration of intellectual property / Steven Weber -- The learning organization : a research note on "Organisational change in Europe : national models or the diffusion of a new 'one best way'?" by Edward Lorenz and Antoine Valeyre / Tobias Schulze-Cleven -- Spoken-about knowledge : why it takes much more than knowledge management to manage knowledge / Niels Christian Nielsen and Maj Cecilie Nielsen -- Pooling knowledge : trends and characteristics of R & D alliances in the ICT sector / Christopher Palmberg and Olli Martikainen -- The peculiar evolution of 3G wireless networks : institutional logic, politics, and property rights / Peter F. Cowhey, Jonathan D. Aronson, and John E. Richards -- Factors for success in mobile telephony : why diffusion in the United States and Europe differs / Heli Koski -- National styles in the setting of global standards : the relationship between firms' standardization strategies and national origin / Aija Leiponen -- Weaving the authoritarian web : the control of Internet use in nondemocratic regimes / Taylor C. Boas -- Copyright's digital reformulation / Brodi Kemp -- Transforming politics in the digital era / Abraham Newman and John Zysman.

"How do high wage countries stay rich in a global digital economy? How Revolutionary was the Digital Revolution constructs a framework for analyzing the international digital era: one that examines the ability of political actors to innovate and experiment in spite of, or perhaps because of, the constraints posed by digital technology. In order to assess the revolutionary nature of the digital era, this book takes four overlapping approaches. First, it examines the reaction of nations, specifically Finland, Japan, and emerging markets, to the dual challenges of globalization and technological change. This section identifies both successful and failed national experiments intended to deal with these dual pressures. Second, it assesses corporate attempts to leverage digital technology to reorganize work. A broad range of issues including off-shoring, open source production systems, and knowledge management are addressed. Third, devoting detailed analysis to the case of mobile telephones, the book offers insights into the political economy of market evolution in the digital era. The final section considers the political ramifications of information technology for critical societal debates ranging from privacy to intellectual property. The contributors to the book map out how the digital revolution shakes up politics, creating new economic and political winners and losers. In order to do so, they connect theories of political economy to the implications of digital technology for international as well as national markets."