A framework for understanding technological change: Lessons from information technology, 1868-1997

James W. Cortada

doi:10.1016/s1048-4736(00)12003-x

A framework for understanding technological change: Lessons from information technology, 1868-1997

James W. Cortada

Charles Babbage Institute

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The chapter proposes a three step framework to assist in the study of technological change in historical terms, using one class of technology, computational devices and computers, to illustrate the approach. Step one explores the economic dynamics of computing to demonstrate the value of studying a specified technology to gain insights about other forms of technologies. Second step attempts an understanding of users and historians respond to the issue of change. Finally, a framework for studying the role of change in technology is presented. Many examples are drawn from different periods in the modern history of information processing.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Entrepreneurship and economic growth in the American economy
Publisher	JAI Press
Pages	47-92
Number of pages	46
ISBN (Print)	0762306890, 9780762306893
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/s1048-4736(00)12003-x
State	Published - 2000

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Name	Advances in the Study of Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Economic Growth
Volume	12
ISSN (Print)	1048-4736

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