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Understanding the long-term development of industry-wide information infrastructures (III) is a challenge that has not yet been sufficiently addressed in the literature. The Chinese context provides an ideal setting to study III emergence because of initially low levels of computer use and also because the development unfolds more rapidly than is usual in other national environments. Against this setting, we deemed a life cycle approach to understanding III emergence especially promising since it potentially accounts for all phases of III emergence and also suggests a succession of these phases, thus offering the promise of limited predictive power.
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Reimers, K., Guo, X., Li, M., Xie, B., Zhang, T. (2014). A Simple Theoretical Framework. In: Innovating in a Learning Community. SpringerBriefs in Digital Spaces. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05098-0_1
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