Objective Summary The project aims at answering the question: "What are the social but also the microeconomic implications of the emerging information society?" It focuses on developments in the domain of companies assuming that the informatization of work is a key factor behind the emergence of information society. The project represents a break with traditional technological determinism as it is based on a "bottom up" approach, analyzing the concrete processes of building up an information society by implementing modern information and communication technologies within companies and in inter-organizational networks. This will shed light on the possible emergence of Europe-specific ways to an Information Society. "Technological practice" is used as a key concept, which describes specific ways of embedding information and communication technology applications into organizational forms and cultural patterns. The project will analyse the development process of such technological practices in different intra- and inter-organizational fields, including shop floor co-operation up to regionally based networks of companies and supporting institutions. It will further investigate in what way emerging technological practices within companies are influenced by and exert influence over the institutions of regional and national environments. And it will analyse the social and micro-economic implications of different technological practices. As regards social implications the project will focus particularly on the aspect of social exclusion and integration. In the project a mix of different methods will be applied including case studies. secondary analysis of existing data sets, a company survey, and comparative analysis. Based on the results of the research project an anszer can be given to the question whether a common European model of information society is emerging or whether different countries follow different paths into information society. Fields of science social scienceseconomics and businesseconomicsmicroeconomicssocial sciencessociologysocial issuessocial inequalities Programme(s) FP4-TSER - Specific programme of targeted socio-economic research, 1994-1998 Topic(s) 0102 - Evaluation of the inter-relations between short and medium-term needs and socio-economic changes and new scientific and technological developments Call for proposal Data not available Funding Scheme CSC - Cost-sharing contracts Coordinator UNIVERSITY OF TAMPERE EU contribution No data Address 4,Tullikatu 6 33014 TAMPERE Finland See on map Total cost No data Participants (7) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all FORSCHUNGS- UND BERATUNGSSTELLE ARBEITSWELT Austria EU contribution No data Address Aspernbrueckengasse 4/5 WIEN See on map Total cost No data FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM KARLSRUHE GMBH - TECHNIK UND UMWELT Germany EU contribution No data Address 5,Weberstrasse 5 76021 Karlsruhe See on map Total cost No data Fundaçáo da Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia da Univesidade Nova de Lisboa Portugal EU contribution No data Address .,Quinta da Torre 2825 Monte de Caparica See on map Total cost No data INSTITUTE FOR EMPLOYMENT STUDIES United Kingdom EU contribution No data Address University of Sussex, Mantell Building BN1 9RF BRIGHTON / FALMER See on map Total cost No data ISTITUTO RICERCHE ECONOMICHE E SOCIALI Italy EU contribution No data Address Via S. Teresa 23 00198 ROMA See on map Total cost No data KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN Belgium EU contribution No data Address 2E,E. van Evenstraat 2E 3000 LOUVAIN / LEUVEN See on map Total cost No data Nexus Europe (Ireland) Ltd Ireland EU contribution No data Address .,Fumbally Lane 8 Dublin See on map Total cost No data