Journal of Industry, Competition and Trade Special Issue: "Digital Disruption and its Social Impacts"

Kenney, Rouvinen & Zysman 2015: "The Digital Disruption and Its Societal Impacts".
Journal of Industry, Competition and Trade, forthcoming.
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10842-014-0187-z
PDF: http://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2Fs10842-014-0187-z.pdf
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Kushida, Murray & Zysman 2015: "Cloud Computing: From Scarcity to Abundance".
Journal of Industry, Competition and Trade, forthcoming.
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10842-014-0188-y
PDF: http://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2Fs10842-014-0188-y.pdf
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Pon, Seppälä & Kenney 2015: "One Ring to Unite Them All: Convergence, the Smartphone, and the Cloud".
Journal of Industry, Competition and Trade, forthcoming.
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10842-014-0189-x
PDF: http://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2Fs10842-014-0189-x.pdf
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Huberty 2015: "Awaiting the Second Big Data Revolution: From Digital Noise to Value Creation".
Journal of Industry, Competition and Trade, forthcoming.
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10842-014-0190-4
PDF: http://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2Fs10842-014-0190-4.pdf
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Kushida 2015: "The Politics of Commoditization in Global ICT Industries: A Political Economy Explanation of the Rise of Apple, Google, and Industry Disruptors".
Journal of Industry, Competition and Trade, forthcoming.
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10842-014-0191-3
PDF: http://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2Fs10842-014-0191-3.pdf
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Ali-Yrkkö & Rouvinen 2015: "Slicing Up Global Value Chains: A Micro View".
Journal of Industry, Competition and Trade, forthcoming.
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10842-014-0192-2
PDF: http://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2Fs10842-014-0192-2.pdf

New Paper: "Cloud Computing: From Scarcity to Abundance"

Kenji E. Kushida, Jonathan Murray, John Zysman

Kushida, Kenji E., Jonathan Murray, and John Zysman. 2015. "Cloud Computing: From Scarcity to Abundance."  Journal of Industry, Competition and Trade. doi: 10.1007/s10842-014-0188-y.

Abstract

Cloud computing is a revolution in computing architecture, transforming not only the “where” (location) of computing, but also the “how” (the manner in which software is produced and the tools available for the automation of business processes). Cloud computing emerged as we transitioned from an era in which underlying computing resources were both scarce and expensive to an era in which the same resources were cheap and abundant. There are many ways to implement cloud architectures, and most people are familiar with public cloud services such as Gmail or Facebook. However, much of the impact of cloud computing on the economy will be driven by how large enterprises implement cloud architectures. Cloud is also poised to disrupt the Information Technology (IT) industry, broadly conceived, with a new wave of commoditization. Offerings optimized for high performance in an era of computing resource scarcity are giving way to loosely coupled, elastically managed architectures making use of cheap, abundant computing resources today.