The Third Industrial Revolution in Global Business

Asks whether and to what effect the widespread adoption of digital technology has led to large-scale or structural economic changes in business.

The essays in this volume ask whether the widespread adoption of digital technology has led to large-scale or structural changes in modern business systems. The book provides a robust exploration of the impact the third industrial revolution - the digital revolution - had on global business.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.