RP2004/13 Petri Rouvinen:
Diffusion of Digital
Mobile Telephony: Are Developing Countries Different? (PDF
219KB)
Factors
determining the diffusion of digital mobile telephony across 200
developed and
developing countries in the 1990s are studied with the aid of a
Gompertz model. The
market size and network effects are found to play more important roles
in the
developing countries; there is also more need for complementing
innovations in, for
example, financial and payment systems. Even though the developing
countries have
disadvantages, being late entrants in digital mobile telephony is to
their advantage and
promotes cross-country convergence. Overall digital technologies are
best seen as
equalizers, and thus the divide is rather socio-economic or analog than
digital.
DP2003/45
Tony Addison and Almas Heshmati:
The New Global Determinants of FDI Flows to Developing
Countries: The Importance of ICT and Democratization (PDF 274KB)
Foreign
direct investment (FDI) has increased dramatically in recent years.
However,
the distribution of FDI is highly unequal and very poor countries face
major difficulties
in attracting foreign investors. This paper investigates the
determinants of FDI inflows
to developing countries, with a particular emphasis on the impact of
the ‘third wave of
democratization’ that started in the early 1980s and the spread of
information and
communication technology (ICT) that began in the late 1980s. These two
global
developments must now be taken into account in any explanation of what
determines
FDI flows. Using a large sample of countries, together with panel data
techniques, the
paper explores the determinants of FDI. The causal relationship between
FDI, GDP
growth, trade openness and ICT is investigated. The main findings are
that
democratization and ICT increase FDI inflows to developing countries.
The paper
concludes that more assistance should be given to poorer countries to
help them to adopt
ICT and to break out of their present ‘low ICT equilibrium’ trap.
DP2003/40
Stéphane Gagnon:
E-business Model Innovation and Capability
Building (PDF
307KB)
April 2003
A firm’s business model describes the way in which it creates,
delivers, and
appropriates value. In the debate about the ongoing demise of several
e-commerce
ventures, only a few analysts have looked at the relative sanity of
innovative e-business
Models, relying mostly on static environmental variables and the
inherent economic
logic of each industry. Our study sheds new light on this debate by
concentrating on a
set of more complex factors, namely the relative difficulty to build
new capabilities,
whether by creating or acquiring them. We interviewed 60 e-commerce
ventures
between 2 and 3 years old, both independent and corporate ones, in
order to measure
their performance, the innovativeness of their e-business model, their
obstacles to
capability building, and their exploitable resource base. By performing
cluster,
discriminant, and regression analyses, we demonstrate that a number of
typical
obstacles to capability building can significantly affect the relative
success or failure of
innovative e-business models, but that a richer resource base may
alleviate this
relationship. We end with a discussion of the implications for the
e-business model
literature, and point out to some new directions to explain how various
e-commerce
firms, whether ‘pure-play’ or ‘click-and-mortar’, can successfully
innovate despite
rampant capability building difficulties.
DP2003/22
Birgitte Andersen and Marva Corley:
The Theoretical, Conceptual and
Empirical Impact of the Service Economy: A Critical Review
(PDF 212KB)
This paper offers a critical review of the conventional economic
classification,
measurement and valuation of output, and related performance
indicators, for the
service sector. The paper also explores and contrasts long-standing
views on the service
knowledge base and service innovations, as well as the global aspects
of many services.
A problem arises when historical industrial classification schemes
treat services as
being ‘immaterial’ (i.e. everything that is not manufacturing and
agriculture), while
ignoring that the activities of services in the economy, as well as the
corporate
structures of firms, transcend such classification schemes at any level
of aggregation.
Other problems arise when associated traditional analytical methods
measure services
input and output and related performance indicators using the same
conceptual
framework and indicators as those that are applied for problem solving
for agriculture
and manufacturing. Such entanglements have other and wider consequences
for
understanding the impact of the new economy and for designing
appropriate policy.
DP2003/07
Dietrich Domanski:*
Idiosyncratic Risk in the 1990s: Is It an IT Story?
(PDF 255KB)
DP2003/06
Shyamal K. Chowdhury and Susanne Wolf:*
Use of ICTs and the Economic Performance of SMEs in
East Africa (PDF 218KB)
DP2002/116
Derrick L. Cogburn:*
Emergent
Global Information Infrastructure/Global Information Society (PDF 198KB)
DP2002/115
Sougata Poddar:*
Network Externality and Software Piracy (PDF 182KB)
DP2002/111
Jai-Joon Hur, Hwan-Joo Seo and Young Soo Lee:*
ICT Diffusion and Skill Upgrading in Korean Industries (PDF 192KB)
DP2002/108 Kandamuthan Subodh:
Market Concentration, Firm
Size and Innovative Activity: A Firm-level Economic Analysis of
Selected Indian Industries under Economic Liberalization-
(PDF 242KB)
DP2002/95
Patrice Muller:
Internet Use in Transition Economies: Economic
and Institutional Determinants (PDF
212KB)
DP2002/94
Stijn Claessens, Daniela Kingebiel, and Sergio L. Schmukler:
Explaining the
Migration of Stocks from Exchanges in Emerging Economies to
International Centres (PDF 158KB)
DP2002/92
Daniel Chudnovsky and Andrés López:
The Software and Information Services Sector in
Argentina: Pros and Cons of an Inward-Orientated Development Strategy
(PDF 219KB)
DP2002/90
Danny Cassimon and Peter-Jan Engelen:
Legal and Institutional Barriers to Optimal
Financial Architecture for New Economy Firms in Developing Countries
(PDF 131KB)
DP2002/89
Christopher Forman:
The Corporate Digital Divide: Determinants of
Internet Adoption (PDF 144KB)
DP2002/88
Youngsoo Lee, Jeonghun Oh, and Hwanjoo Seo:
Digital Divideand Growth Gap: A Cumulative
Relationship (PDF 194KB)
DP2002/84
Albertus Aochamub, Daniel Motinga, and Christoph Stork:
Economic Development Potential through IP Telephony
for Namibia (PDF 733KB)
DP2002/83
Samia Satti O. M. Nour:
ICT Opportunities and Challenges for Development
in the Arab World (PDF 167KB)
DP2002/79
Sagren Moodley:
Competing in the Digital Economy?: The Dynamics and
Impacts of B2B E-commerce on the South African Manufacturing Sector
(PDF 321KB)
DP2002/78
K. J. Joseph:
Growth of ICT and ICT for Development: Realities of
the Myths of the Indian Experience (PDF
409KB)
DP2002/77
Mina N. Baliamoune:
The New Economy and Developing Countries: Assessing the
Role of ICT Diffusion (PDF 292KB)
DP2002/76
T. A. Bhavani:
Impact of Technology on the Competitiveness of the
Indian Small Manufacturing Sector: A Case Study of the Automotive
Component Industry (PDF 398KB)
DP2002/75
Charles Kenny:
The Internet and Economic Growth in Least Developed
Countries (PDF 250KB)
DP2002/74
George R. G. Clarke:
Does Internet Connectivity Affect Export Performance?
Evidence from Transition Economies (PDF
85KB)
DP2002/73
Sandeep Kapur:
Developing Countries in the New Economy: The Role of
Demand-side Initiatives (PDF 178KB)
DP2002/72
Steve Onyeiwu:
Inter-Country Variations in Digital Technology in
Africa: Evidence, Determinants, and Policy Applications (PDF 296KB)
DP2002/70
Francesco Daveri:*
The New Economy in Europe, 1992-2001 (PDF 107KB)
DP2002/69
Poh-Kam Wong and Zi-Lin He:*
The Impacts of Knowledge Interaction with
Manufacturing Clients on KIBS Firms Innovation Behaviour (PDF 240KB)
