Impact Of Internet Adoption Research Articles

The role of rural internet adoption in shaping consumption breadth and inequality: evidence from the Chinese Social Survey

ABSTRACT This study delves into the impact of Internet adoption on consumption breadth and inequality, utilizing micro-survey data from 24,291 rural households in China gathered between 2013 and 2021. It quantifies Internet adoption intensity, employs specialized indices to gauge consumption breadth and inequality, and meticulously assesses the micro-level effects of Internet usage on consumption breadth and inequality. The results reveal that Internet adoption among farmers significantly boosts familial consumption breadth while reducing consumption inequality. These findings remain robust after rigorous testing. Internet adoption’s impact on inclusive growth varies and is influenced by policy contexts, time frames, and income groups. Tailored, context-specific strategies are imperative for effectively addressing these disparities. Lastly, increased Internet adoption among farmers stimulates non-agricultural employment, resulting in more non-agricultural labour hours, a more significant non-agricultural labour force, and higher non-agricultural income shares. These changes positively affect the breadth of familial consumption and negatively affect consumption inequality. This study underscores the pivotal role of the Internet in propelling inclusive growth and offers robust evidence to support harnessing its potential for bolstering consumption breadth and reducing inequality within the framework of the digital economy.

Impact of Internet Adoption and Mobile Phone Penetration on Corruption: Evidence from Selected Asia-Pacific Countries

This study uses the mobile phone penetration as a tool of accountability against corruption and promotes transparency and good governance among selected Asia-Pacific countries. The consensus regarding fast internet speed plays a vital role to eliminate the corruption through modern informational and communication technology system. This study empirically investigates the causal relationship between internet adoption and mobile phone penetration to overcome the issue of corruption. This study adopted the Granger causality approach to analyse the panel data (2006–2016) for 12 countries. The results of Granger causality test did not find any evidence for bidirectional causality from corruption to mobile phone penetration and internet adoption. This shows that an increase in mobile phone penetration and internet adoption leads to decrease in corruption. The good governance and rule of law also found the powerful instruments to reduce the perceived corruption. This study is the first ever attempt to examine this issue for Asian Pacific countries, while other studies include only developing and advanced economies in their sample.

Was household internet adoption driven by the reform? Evaluation of the 2013 telecommunication reform in Mexico

In 2013 the Mexican Telecommunications and Broadcasting Reform was launched with the goal of promoting competition and access in the telecommunications sector. The aim of this paper is to evaluate whether the 2013 reform had an impact on household fixed internet adoption and to what extent Mexican households, classified into ten wealth groups, had adopted internet. For the assessment, after a revision of supply and demand Reform's measures to reduce the digital divide, data from the 2010 Census and 2015 Intercensal Survey were used to create adoption indexes using Poisson estimations. The results were analyzed by ten wealth groups, constructed on principal components based on household characteristics (type of dwelling, electricity availability, availability of drinking water, sewer system, internet and ICT devices: computer, telephone, cell phone and internet). Additionally, the impact of both indexes was validated by a difference in differences method. The results suggest a 66% overall increase in internet adoption between 2010 and 2015. The decile analysis showed considerable internet adoption in the low and middle wealth groups (deciles 2–8), while in the highest wealth groups (deciles 9–10) the impact of internet adoption has been relatively moderate. It is worth noting that internet adoption is unequally distributed, as less than 1% of households in deciles 1 to 6 had adopted internet in 2015, while nearly all of the wealthiest ten percent of households have internet access. Nevertheless the increment in internet adoption was not only the result of the reform but the combination of the broadband penetration trend and the reform together.

Technology as an Agent of Change in the News Production System: Institutionalism and News Organizations in Developing Countries

Our research adopts an exploratory approach of empirically testing the impact of information communication technology on the institutional conditions of news organizations in developing countries for their sustainable growth as independent news agencies. So far, institutional studies have been mainly constrained to case studies or descriptive results, rather than conducting inferential analyses. The institutional discussion has not yet extended beyond the editorial process in the newsroom, which limits a holistic understanding of the behaviors of news organizations by overlooking a complicated procedure of news production systems, including business management. Using data from the Media Sustainability Index (MSI) of the International Research & Exchanges Board (IREX), which evaluates news media system for independent news reporting, we perform an exploratory analysis of the impact of Internet adoption on the freedom of speech, business management, and the plurality of news, the primary constituents of institutional conditions for a news media system. The present study paves the way for further discussion concerning the contributing role of the Internet at the juncture of news organizations and the Internet.

Internet adoption and knowledge diffusion

What is the capacity of ICT to reduce the (geographical and technological) localization of knowledge? In this paper, we analyze the impact of Internet adoption within US firms on knowledge spillove...

Consumer mobility in the Scottish isles: The impact of internet adoption upon retail travel patterns

While there have been numerous studies of on-line shopping behaviour, the impact of internet adoption upon island communities remains largely unexplored. This is despite the identified difficulties that are encountered when attempting to access goods and services in these peripheral economies. Limitations in the transport infrastructure, inconsistent supply and restricted availability have all been acknowledged as issues affecting local retail provision. Island residents have also traditionally been required to travel to the main town or mainland in order to shop for key items. This research study examines the extent to which on-line provision has reconfigured the mobility patterns of residents in the Scottish isles and whether e-commerce has reduced the propensity of individuals to undertake shopping related travel. The findings suggest that e-commerce has had only a modest impact upon consumer travel patterns and that other situational factors moderate the identified benefits that accrue from purchasing on-line.

The impact of internet adoption upon the shopping behaviour of island residents

Despite numerous studies of on-line shopping behaviour, the impact that the internet has had upon island communities remains largely unexplored. This is despite previous research highlighting the difficulties island residents encounter when attempting to access goods and services. This qualitative, exploratory research study interviews individuals across three UK island groups and examines the extent to which on-line provision has reconfigured the purchasing behaviour of local residents. The findings confirm that internet usage is widespread and that a broad range of products are purchased on-line. However the paper maintains that these findings underplay the significance of e-retailing. The internet has had a much more profound impact upon island consumers and the benefits that are derived from on-line availability extend beyond the reconfiguration of shopping patterns. The findings illustrate that the benefits that have accrued from internet adoption have fundamentally transformed the lives of many individuals. It has acted as a liberating mechanism that has positively impacted upon domestic undertakings and socio-cultural activities.