E-Commerce in France: Did Early Adoption Prevent Its Development?

Brousseau, Eric

dc.contributor.author	Brousseau, Eric
dc.date.accessioned	2014-05-05T14:03:42Z
dc.date.available	2014-05-05T14:03:42Z
dc.date.issued	2003
dc.identifier.uri	https://basepub.dauphine.fr/handle/123456789/13246
dc.language.iso	en	en
dc.subject	Diffusion Of Innovation	en
dc.subject	Digital Divide	en
dc.subject	e-commerce	en
dc.subject	Internet Adoption	en
dc.subject.ddc	338	en
dc.subject.classificationjel	O33	en
dc.subject.classificationjel	L81	en
dc.subject.classificationjel	L86	en
dc.title	E-Commerce in France: Did Early Adoption Prevent Its Development?	en
dc.type	Article accepté pour publication ou publié
dc.contributor.editoruniversityother	Université de Paris-Ouest;France
dc.description.abstracten	France's early adoption of Minitel and EDI in the 1980s was both a stimulus and an inhibitor to Internet-based e-commerce. It hindered the adoption of the Internet, but it also created the conditions for a rapid catch up when France switched to the Internet in 1997. The French were already open to the use of IT, a dense network of online specialists and information service providers already existed, and many investments required to go digital were already made. On the other hand, by mid-2001 France was still far behind the early adopters of e-commerce over the Internet. This is because the French catch-up was checked by the implosion of the Internet financial bubble in 2000. Second, many Internet-based business models did not fit the French distribution channels. These differences suggest that e-commerce paths of development can be differentiated among nations, because both needs and solutions differ. This conclusion goes against the conventional wisdom that e-commerce will lead to the emergence of an integrated global marketplace in which common commercial practices will be implemented.	en
dc.relation.isversionofjnlname	The Information Society
dc.relation.isversionofjnlvol	19	en
dc.relation.isversionofjnlissue	1	en
dc.relation.isversionofjnldate	2003
dc.relation.isversionofjnlpages	45-57	en
dc.relation.isversionofdoi	http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01972240309473	en
dc.relation.isversionofjnlpublisher	Routledge	en
dc.subject.ddclabel	Economie industrielle	en
dc.relation.forthcoming	non	en
dc.relation.forthcomingprint	non	en

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