Economics-related ICT research has moved from the fringes of the discipline to penetrate all of its branches. It is, therefore, not a separate economics sub-discipline. It is also unlikely to become part of an ‘ICT or Internet Research’ proto-discipline. Instead, it should be seen as only one part of a bigger agenda toward a proper ‘information and knowledge economics’ and possibly a future pro...

Current claims by government, major IT companies and educational institutions in the UK that IT skills offer enhanced inclusion into the new economy, are attracting women to the field of information systems. The needs of one social group – lone women parents – that IT skills initiatives seek to include will be analyzed in the light of another policy trend, the ‘work life balance’. Using narrati...

In the past few years, Sharing Economy (SE) has become increasingly popular mainly for consumer research. Past research focused on describing the phenomenon itself and its disrupting influences on current economic mechanisms. However, information systems (IS) research and scientific literature in general still lack a common understanding of SE and its underlying mechanisms. We therefore elabora...

Although ASP (Application Service Provider) has the potential to fundamentally change the manner in which IT services are provided for user firms, current ASPs often fail to provide good results in accumulating and retaining customers. To fill the gap between the expected benefits of application service and its disappointing results in the real world, we present a conceptual model including thr...

One can imagine a future society in which natural resources are irrelevant and all that counts is information. I shall discuss this possibility, plus the role that algorithmic information theory might then play as a metatheory for the amount of information required to construct something.

Digitization and new trends in consumption behaviour have brought forward new business models within the Sharing Economy (SE). While commercial online sharing platforms such as Uber and Airbnb have already received some attention by researchers, non-commercial online platforms have remained largely unexplored. At the same time, prosocial motives are playing an increasingly central role in parti...

We should pay attention to the fact that information-based economy is because information has a material value, as it allows all individuals make choices result in expected returns higher or more than what they would get from absence of information. Today became resource and an essential element life economy. It called most economic literature (knowledge economy), but better call dependence on ...

Increasingly commentators talk about the Information Age. Stewart (1998:21) even goes as far as designating 1991 as Year One – the year that [capital] 'spending for production technology [in the US] was $107 billion and information technology spending was $112 billion'. In this new age, 'knowledge and information take on their own reality, which can be detached from the physical movement of goo...

It is our contention that information technology is a cultural commodity whose influence is spread through economic and political action of institutions such as the government and corporations. Informed by Bourdieu’s sociology of language, we conduct a content analysis of political speeches regarding “digital opportunities” delivered by U. S. government officials. In this analysis we demonstrat...