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“Digital tools are locally appropriated, mostly in path-dependent ways [55], where technology adoption reflects the area's manufacturing and industrial profile and is shaped by local cultural norms [56] and institutional thickness [57].”
From Divergent Paths of SME Digitalization: A Latent Class Approach to Regional Modernization in the European Union (2025) · cites this paper as [55]
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- Authors
- Williams, R., & Edge, D.
- Affiliations
- University of Edinburgh (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Williams, Robin
- Venue
- Research Policy
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 1996-09
- Volume
- 25
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 865-899
- ISSN
- 0048-7333 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2178271086
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- 917
- References
- 78
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- FWCI
- 21.70
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Research Policy (publishedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Management Information Systems › Information Systems Theories and Implementation
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Innovation, Technology, and Society
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Management Science and Operations Research › Innovation Diffusion and Forecasting
- Keywords
- social shaping of technology, innovation process, technology policy, information technology, social dimensions of technology
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