TY - JOUR
T1 - An exploratory study of the determinants of information technology hardware production
T2 - a country-level analysis*
AU - Shin, Namchul
AU - Dedrick, Jason
N1 - Funding Information:
Jason Dedrick is Professor in the School of Information Studies and Center of Excellence Fellow at Syracuse University. His research interests include adoption and impacts of smart grid, cybersecurity and privacy issues associated with distributed energy markets, global value chains in the electronics industry, and economic and organizational impacts of information technologies. His work has been supported by grants from the U.S. National Science Foundation and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. He holds a Ph.D. in Management from the University of California, Irvine.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2018, © 2018 Commonwealth Secretariat.
PY - 2019/4/3
Y1 - 2019/4/3
N2 - This research examines empirically factors influencing IT hardware production by employing a country-level data set for 1985–2009. Our results show that IT hardware production is driven by various country-level factors, but the impacts of these factors differ for two types of IT hardware. Electronic data processing (EDP) production has shifted to low GDP countries where wage levels are low, and a large portion of EDP produced in these countries tend to be exported to high GDP countries where demand is high. While the gap has decreased, however, medical and industrial equipment (MIE) production is still largely done in advanced economies. These findings imply that losing the manufacturing base in the U.S. might not be an issue for certain types of products, such as EDP, but it could be a serious issue for MIE. Thus, policies must be industry specific; a ‘one-size-fits-all’ policy would not work for the global IT industry.
AB - This research examines empirically factors influencing IT hardware production by employing a country-level data set for 1985–2009. Our results show that IT hardware production is driven by various country-level factors, but the impacts of these factors differ for two types of IT hardware. Electronic data processing (EDP) production has shifted to low GDP countries where wage levels are low, and a large portion of EDP produced in these countries tend to be exported to high GDP countries where demand is high. While the gap has decreased, however, medical and industrial equipment (MIE) production is still largely done in advanced economies. These findings imply that losing the manufacturing base in the U.S. might not be an issue for certain types of products, such as EDP, but it could be a serious issue for MIE. Thus, policies must be industry specific; a ‘one-size-fits-all’ policy would not work for the global IT industry.
KW - GDP
KW - IT demand
KW - IT hardware production
KW - country-level analysis
KW - economic development
KW - electronic data processing
KW - medical and industrial equipment
KW - openness of the economy
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U2 - 10.1080/02681102.2018.1501653
DO - 10.1080/02681102.2018.1501653
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85050544544
SN - 0268-1102
VL - 25
SP - 334
EP - 356
JO - Information Technology for Development
JF - Information Technology for Development
IS - 2
ER -