The Third Industrial Revolution in Global Business

by Dosi, Giovanni; Galambos, Louis; Adams, Pamela (CON); Brusoni, Stefano (CON); Colli, Andrea (CON)

• ISBN13: 9781107028616
• ISBN10: 1107028612
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2013-04-29
• Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr

Summary

The essays in this volume probe the impact the digital revolution has had, or sometimes failed to have, on global business. Has digital technology, the authors ask, led to structural changes and greater efficiency and innovation? While most of the essays support the idea that the information age has increased productivity in global business, the evidence of a "revolution" in the ways industries are organized is somewhat more blurred, with both significant discontinuities and features which persist from the "second" industrial revolution.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Technological revolutions and the evolution of industrial structures: assessing the impact of new technologies upon the size, pattern of growth, and boundaries of firms

The long-run dynamics of big firms: the one hundred largest employers from the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, and Japan, 1907-2002

Knowledge and the changing boundaries of firms and industries

Organizing the electronic century

Aircraft and the third industrial revolution

Aluminum and the third industrial revolution

The role of the state in the third industrial revolution: continuity and change

Celebrating youth: the historical origins of the U.S. stock market's appetite for young firms

Labor in the third industrial revolution: a tentative synthesis

Conclusion

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