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The Digital Hand: How Computers Changed the Work of American Manufacturing, Transportation, and Retail Industries

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In The Digital Hand, James W. Cortada combines detailed analysis with narrative history to provide a broad overview of computing's role in sixteen industries, accounting for nearly half of the U.S. economy. Beginning in 1950, when commercial applications of digital technology began to appear, Cortada examines the ways different industries adopted new technologies, as well as the ways their innovative applications influenced other industries and the U.S economy. In addition, to this account of computers' impact on industry, Cortada also demonstrates how industries themselves influenced the nature of digital technology. Managers, economists, and anyone interested in the history of modern business will appreciate this historical analysis of digital technology's many roles and its future possibilities in a wide array of industries. A detailed picture of what the infrastructure of the Information Age really looks like and how we got there, The Digital Hand is a sweeping survey of how computers transformed the American economy. Available in OSO: http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/oso/public/content/management/9780195165883/toc.html

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  • Cortada, James W., 2004. "The Digital Hand: How Computers Changed the Work of American Manufacturing, Transportation, and Retail Industries," OUP Catalogue, Oxford University Press, number 9780195165883.
    • Handle: RePEc:oxp:obooks:9780195165883
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    1. Devika Narayan, 2022. "Platform capitalism and cloud infrastructure: Theorizing a hyper-scalable computing regime," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 54(5), pages 911-929, August.
    2. Jeffrey Funk, 2018. "Technology change, economic feasibility, and creative destruction: the case of new electronic products and services," Industrial and Corporate Change, Oxford University Press and the Associazione ICC, vol. 27(1), pages 65-82.
    3. Funk, Jeffrey L., 2015. "IT and sustainability: New strategies for reducing carbon emissions and resource usage in transportation," Telecommunications Policy, Elsevier, vol. 39(10), pages 861-874.
    4. Allan Ashworth, 2012. "The Impact of Building Information Modelling: Transforming Construction," Construction Management and Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 30(2), pages 183-185, January.
    5. Batiz-Lazo, Bernardo & Buckley, Tom, 2021. "Early “Frictions” in the Transition towards Cashless Payments," MPRA Paper 108834, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    6. Hannah Grenham, 2020. "The mechanical monster and discourses of fear and fascination in the early history of the computer," Palgrave Communications, Palgrave Macmillan, vol. 7(1), pages 1-11, December.
    7. Edward J. Malecki, 2010. "Everywhere? The Geography Of Knowledge," Journal of Regional Science, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 50(1), pages 493-513, February.
    8. Mikko Valorinta & Henri Schildt & Juha-Antti Lamberg, 2011. "Path Dependence of Power Relations, Path-Breaking Change and Technological Adaptation," Industry and Innovation, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 18(8), pages 765-790, November.

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