This study rethinks innovation diffusion in craft-based small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) by examining how cultural logics and collective governance shape selective digitalization. Drawing on a qualitative case of Ata handicraft SMEs in Bali, Indonesia, the study analyzes in-depth...

Both the demand for skilled labor and the skill wage premium have become increasingly dispersed across the United States. This paper examines how technological change within occupations drives these uneven local developments. Combining a novel measure of technological change-capturing shifts in...

Negative word of mouth (NWoM) can be a major factor in new product diffusion, as indicated by Goldenberg et al. (2007). We extend their work by accounting for the role of consumer uncertainty for NWoM's impact on adoption dynamics. Using an agent-based simulation framework we compare three...

We examine the long-term labor market impact of the steam engine, an early general-purpose technology, by linking newly digitized 19th-century records from Prussia to modern German labor market data (1975-2019). Regions with a higher concentration of steam engines per worker in 1875 exhibit...