Central European Industry in the Information Age

The emerging digital economy - challenges for Central and East European countries: global capitalist restructuring; different visions of informatization; ICT usage and industrial competitiveness; ICT usage and the organization of a firm; the value chaine approach as a tool to assess the impact of ICT usage; ICT usage and uneven development. Part 2 The advance of information society in Central and European Europe: the socialist legacy; variety of development paths in Central and Eastern Europe and variety in ICT trajectories; the four selected countries; the telecom infrastructure; the advance of information society in Central and Eastern Europe, some indicators; information society infrastructure in Hungary; information society infrastructure in Lithuania; information society infrastructure in Poland; information society infrastructure in Ukraine. Part 3 Computer networking in Central and East European industry: the selected sectors and ICT trajectories; Hungarian chemical industry; Hungarian food industry; Hungarian pharmaceutical industry; Lithuanian chemical industry; Lithuanian food industry; Lithuanian textile industry; the Polish motorcar industry; Polish coal industry; Polish steel industry; selected Ukrainian enterprises. Part 4 A comparative analysis of industrial sectors: an economic typology of selected sectors; ICT usage - survey results; ICT typology of sectors; classification of sectors; analysis of correlations; barriers to the benefical use of computer networking - an overview. Part 5 ICT usage in Central and Eastern Europe in a global perspective: ICT usage and global competitiveness; technological capacity building and ICT usage; the new structure of the world economy and Central and Eastern Europe; the information society gap - comparison with EU cohesion countries; East-West co-operation. Part 6 Conclusion and recommendations: summary of national and sectoral surveys; recommendations; outlook.