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Tacit Web: Entrepreneurial Discovery, Institutional Complexity And Internet Diffusion, Meelis Kitsing
Tacit Web: Entrepreneurial Discovery, Institutional Complexity And Internet Diffusion, Meelis Kitsing
Doctoral Dissertations
This dissertation investigates how institutional frameworks and entrepreneurial discovery processes condition internet diffusion. While internet and internet-based technologies have received considerable scholarly attention, the dissertation emphasizes tacit elements in understanding internet diffusion. In order to do so, it incorporates perspectives on insttitutional complexity stemming from interactions of formal and informal institutions and different institutional logics. Empiral part consists both macro level comparisons of Estonia and Slovenia as well as micro level analysis of internet diffusion processes within Estonia. Estonia and Slovenia are selected for comparison because of considerable variance in insitutional frameworks. At the same time, both countries are relatively …