Understanding The Digital Economy

This book contains work presented at a conference held by executive branch agencies in May 1999 at the Department of Commerce. The goals of the conference were to assess current research on the digital economy, to engage the private sector in developing the research that informs investment and policy decisions, and to promote better understanding of the growth and socioeconomic implications of information technology and electronic commerce. Aspects of the digital economy addressed include macroeconomic assessment, organizational change, small business, access, market structure and competition, and employment and the workforce.

Contents

• Introduction
• The Macroeconomic Perspective
• Measuring the Digital Economy
• GDP and the Digital Economy: Keeping up with the Changes
• Understanding Digital Technology's Evolution and the Path of Measured
• Productivity Growth: Present and Future in the Mirror of the Past
• Market Structure, Competition, and the Role of Small Business
• Understanding Digital Markets: Review and Assessment
• Market Structure in the Network Age
• The Evolving Structure of Commercial Internet Markets
• Small Companies in the Digital Economy
• Small Business, Innovation, and Public Policy in the Information Technology Industry
• Employment, Workforce, and Access Technological Change, Computerization, and the Wage Structure
• The Growing Digital Divide: Implications for an Open Research Agenda
• Extending Access to the Digital Economy to Rural and Developing Regions
• Organizational Change
• IT and Organizational Change in Digital Economies: A Sociotechnical Approach
• Organizational Change and the Digital Economy: A Computational Organization Science Perspective
• The Truth Is Not Out There: An Enacted View of the "Digital Economy"
• Contributors
• Index