Index

Technology, Society, and Conflict

ISBN: 978-1-80262-454-0, eISBN: 978-1-80262-453-3

ISSN: 1572-8323

Publication date: 16 September 2022

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(2022), "Index", Popkova, E.G. and Chatterji, M. (Ed.) Technology, Society, and Conflict (Contributions to Conflict Management, Peace Economics and Development, Vol. 30), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 195-203. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1572-832320220000030018

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Copyright © 2022 Elena G. Popkova and Manas Chatterji


INDEX

Advertising
, 42, 46, 161

Ageism
, 2

2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
, 47

Airbnb
, 162

Alibaba
, 40, 56, 75, 185

Alphabet
, 56, 75, 185

Amazon
, 39, 46, 56, 57, 75, 162, 165, 185

Amazon Web Services
, 165

Analysis method
, 124

Analysis of variance
, 11

Antimonopoly law
, 45

App stores
, 184

Apple
, 56, 162, 185

Application markets
, 153

Artificial intelligence (AI)
, 1, 41, 42, 56, 69, 98, 109, 122, 135, 149, 153, 185

Asia countries
, 129

Automatability of jobs
, 130

Automation
, 140

Automatization
, 73–74, 122–123, 126

Awareness systems
, 55

Axiom
, 68

Base transceiver stations (BTS)
, 175

Big Data
, 41, 42, 85, 98

Biotic resources
, 179

Blockchain technology
, 124

Booking. com
, 57

Bosch Consulting Group
, 163

Broadband Internet in business
, 177

Broadband technology
, 23

Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA)
, 163

initial estimates
, 164

Business
, 156, 190

interest
, 186

models
, 155

Business conflicts
, 19

in digital competition of enterprises as scientific concept
, 20–21

Business Digitalization Index
, 17–19

Business-to-business platforms (B2B platforms)
, 162–163

Business-to-consumer platforms (B2C platforms)
, 162–163

Capital productivity
, 179

Cash transfers
, 176

Cause-and-effect relations of business conflicts
, 21–22

Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation Programme (CAREC)
, 116

Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act
, 44

China, technological inequality in
, 96

Chinese digital giants
, 162

‘Clash of civilizations’
, 54

Climate change
, 82

Cloud computing
, 23, 41, 184

Cloud services in business
, 176

Cluster policy
, 189

Clusters
, 189

Collaborative networking platforms
, 184

Collectivism polar process
, 188

Communication
, 53, 62

Competitiveness
, 124

Complex socio-ecological systems
, 179

Computer services
, 143

Conflict
, 38, 150

of digital development
, 82

materials and methods
, 83–87

of regional technological development
, 174

results
, 87–89

in sphere of digital development
, 179

Conflict management
, 53, 82, 124, 150

history of humanity
, 94–95

inequality
, 100–101

materials and methods
, 95–98

results
, 98–100

Conflict of traditions and innovations
, 139

literature review
, 134–137

materials and methods
, 137–138

results
, 138–143

Conflict system-based conflict
, 21

Conflict theory
, 19, 24, 28, 54

Consumer ecosystem
, 164

Consumers of goods

digital development
, 47

materials and methods
, 39–44

OECD
, 38–39

results
, 44–46

Conventional business principles
, 139

Conventional industry market models
, 167

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)
, 87

Corporate social responsibility
, 82

Correlation analysis
, 176

COVID-19 pandemic
, 2, 39, 55, 61, 76, 125–126, 136, 148, 150–151, 175

Crisis
, 38, 151

Cross-border data
, 185

Cross-industry coalitions
, 151

Customer p management technology
, 23

Cyberattacks
, 39

Data collection methods
, 108

Data-driven digital economy
, 185

Davos Summit
, 109

Deprivation
, 54

Design for the Environment (DfE)
, 88

Differentiation of economic systems
, 3, 8, 12

Digital age
, 69, 167

‘Digital barrier’
, 184

Digital cluster
, 190

Digital competition
, 16

Digital competitiveness
, 16

Digital deprivation
, 53–54

Digital development
, 1–2, 47

in different countries
, 16–17

Digital differentiation
, 174

Digital divide
, 95, 184

problem
, 160

technical aspects of
, 161

Digital economy
, 41, 46, 68–69, 83, 106–107, 164, 167, 184

cause and-effect links in
, 189

development of
, 191

formation of
, 186

share of
, 187

Digital Economy and Society Index (DESI)
, 167

Digital ecosystem
, 39

Digital financial services
, 153

Digital harm
, 45

Digital inclusion
, 175

Digital industries
, 17

Digital inequality
, 64

of Russian regions
, 28

technical measurement of
, 166

Digital instability
, 46

Digital intelligence
, 16–17

Digital interdependence
, 138

Digital literacy
, 175

Digital modernization
, 8

Digital platforms
, 164

Digital revolution
, 160

Digital skills indicators
, 168

Digital solutions
, 88

Digital technologies
, 41, 84, 98, 124, 160

by enterprises
, 168

Digital transformation
, 47, 53, 175

Digital inequality
, 184

Digitalization
, 2, 16, 39, 68, 72, 76, 78, 82, 83–84, 86, 123, 167, 176

inefficient management of
, 20

of public services
, 115

Discrimination of employees
, 4, 69, 71

Disruptive technology skills
, 112

Diversity
, 115

DP
, 161–162

Dynamic disruption
, 78

E-business
, 41

E-commerce
, 17, 163, 168, 184

innovative technologies in
, 139

leaders
, 57

Ecodesign Directive
, 88

Economic and political conflict of modern time

literature review
, 9

materials and method
, 9–10

results
, 10–12

Economic approach
, 2

Economic conflict
, 20, 21, 97

Economic inequality
, 1, 9, 192

Economic modernization
, 69, 70

Economic renaissance grow
, 151

Economic transformation
, 151–152

Economic value
, 152–153

Economy
, 39

with dominating services
, 129

Ecosystem
, 39–41, 98, 148

Education
, 107

Education technology
, 148

Educational institutions
, 108

Electricity
, 175

Electronic waste
, 88

Employment in STEM
, 109

Enterprise resource planning
, 23

Entrepreneurial skills
, 136

Entrepreneurship
, 16

integration mechanisms in
, 21

Environmental sciences
, 135

Extended producer responsibility (EPR)
, 88

systems in business
, 176

External factors
, 20

Facebook
, 56, 57, 75, 137, 161, 162, 165, 185

revenue model
, 161

Fifth generation mobile communications (5G)
, 63, 69, 141

Financial crises
, 39

Financial markets
, 151

Financial services
, 143

Financing of innovations
, 10–13

Fixed-line networks
, 175

Foreign trade surplus
, 9–11

Formal education system
, 107

4G technology
, 141

Four horsemen
, 162

Fourth Industrial Revolution
, 8

Freedom of international trade
, 9

Fritzy (Dutch travel app)
, 57

Functional modernization
, 70

‘G20 Digital Economy Development and Cooperation Initiative’
, 83

Gender conflict

digitalization of public services
, 115

materials and methods
, 107–109

results
, 109–114

women in CAREC countries
, 116–117

Gender Inequality Index (GII)
, 115, 117

‘Gender-based’ approach
, 106

Gender-sensitive learning environment
, 107

‘General-purpose technology’
, 143, 153

Generational theory
, 83

Gini Index
, 99

Glassdoor
, 167

Global Competitiveness Indicator
, 139

Global conflict
, 4, 58, 63, 93–101, 138

Global coordination
, 151

Global cross-industry coalitions
, 156

Global digital platforms
, 165

Global economy
, 151, 154

Global Gender Gap Index (GGGI index)
, 112, 117

Global Information Society process
, 174

Global Innovation Index (GII)
, 58–60, 139

Global Innovation Tracker
, 141

Global social media market
, 165

Global technological inequality

literature review
, 134–137

materials and methods
, 137–138

results
, 138–143

Global value chains (GVCs)
, 69, 71

Globalization
, 96

Golden Age Index (GAI)
, 129

Google
, 57, 137, 162, 165, 185

Government policies

on expenditure
, 176

on income redistribution
, 176

Government relations (GR)
, 61

Gross domestic product (GDP)
, 116

Gross National Income (GNI)
, 76

Hard drives (HDD)
, 89

‘Human capital’
, 154

Human Resources in Science and Technology (HRST)
, 109

Humanity
, 94

Hydrogen economy
, 148

Hyperloop transport systems
, 82, 148

Imitation modelling

In-depth analysis
, 19

Index data
, 168

Individualization polar process
, 188

Industrial economies
, 129

Industrial modernization
, 70

Industrial Revolution
, 16

in Great Britain
, 73

Industrialization
, 8

Inequality
, 28, 30, 95, 100–101

in technological conflict
, 99

Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA)
, 149

Information and communication technologies (ICT)
, 23, 55, 62, 83, 109, 136, 161–162, 165, 192

adoption
, 175

impact on inequality
, 174

infrastructure
, 175

sector in Ukraine
, 166

Information and technology collision
, 161

Information economy
, 186

Information society
, 63

Information technology (IT)
, 109, 138

Infrastructure conflict
, 20–21

Innovation(s)
, 70, 134–135, 138, 143

cluster
, 190–191

conflicts
, 32

Innovative development of economy
, 133

innovation processes
, 143–144

literature review
, 134–136

materials and methods
, 137–138

results
, 138–143

‘off the record’ employees
, 136–137

Innovativeness
, 134, 138

Institutional innovation
, 155

Integration mechanisms

government policies
, 192

literature review
, 189

methodology
, 186–189

results
, 189–191

‘Intellectual automatization’
, 122

Intellectual property rights
, 144

Internal factors
, 20

International business
, 40

International framework
, 185

International Labour Organisation (ILO)
, 71

International Monetary Fund (IMF)
, 9, 10, 116

International policy
, 138

International technological conflict management
, 11–12

International trade
, 150

Internet
, 17, 168

network
, 165

service
, 168

solutions
, 98

space
, 168

Internet cafés
, 175

Internet of Things (IoT)
, 41, 63, 69, 83

B2B platforms
, 161

Internet Protocol (IP)
, 55, 185

Interoperability standards
, 17

Intersectoral modernization
, 70

Investment

conflicts
, 32, 34

in digital assets
, 123

in R&D
, 142

strategy
, 95

Iterative method
, 124

JD. com
, 40, 162

Kayak
, 57

Knowledge transfer offices (KTO)
, 190

Knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS)
, 143

Knowledge-intensive employment
, 12–13

Labour conflicts
, 4, 60

digital economy
, 68–69

materials and method
, 69–75

results
, 76–78

Labour market

automatability of jobs
, 130

automatization
, 122–123

conflict in
, 123

large groups of countries
, 129

materials and methods
, 123–125

results
, 125–126

smart machines
, 127–128

Least developed countries (LDCs)
, 56, 185

Legal management
, 82

Linear regression equations
, 10

LinkedIn
, 111

Local inequality
, 179

Magnetic storms
, 39

Mainstreaming process
, 108

Market
, 153

capitalization
, 165

‘Markets of tomorrow’
, 150

literature review
, 150

materials and method
, 150–152

results
, 152–155

Measurable standards
, 71

Mechanical skill
, 136

Medium Term National Development Plan 2020–2024
, 175

Micro-enterprises
, 136

Microsoft
, 56–57, 185

Mobile telephone networks
, 175

Modelling of conflict
, 123

automatability of jobs
, 130

automatization
, 122–123

in labour market
, 122

large groups of countries
, 129

materials and methods
, 123–125

results
, 125–126

smart machines
, 127–128

Modern global conflict
, 58

Modern information technologies
, 58

Modern management
, 54

Modern progress
, 140

Modernization
, 70

Multiple linear regression
, 11

National Development Process
, 110

National maximum scenario
, 141

Netflix
, 57, 75

‘Network effects’
, 41

Neural network analysis
, 82

Non-formal education
, 107

Northern Europe countries
, 129

Not in education, employment, or training (NEET)
, 129

‘Off the record’ employees
, 136–137

On-the-job training
, 107

Online advertising
, 57, 184

Online commerce
, 163

Online communication platforms
, 57

Online game providers
, 57

Online implementation
, 168

Online media content providers
, 57

Online payment services
, 41, 184

Online sales in business
, 176

Online services
, 44

Online shopping
, 163

OpenTable
, 57

Optimism
, 143

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
, 38–39, 109, 160

Oxfam
, 63–64

Part-time workers
, 107

PayPal system
, 163

Periodic waves of pandemic
, 77

Perry Street Software
, 57

Pinduoduo
, 40

Policy-makers
, 151

Politics
, 160

Post-pandemic period
, 3–4, 53–54, 57–58, 61

Poverty
, 99

Preferential attachment process
, 179

Priceline
, 57

Product innovations
, 143

Promising markets
, 149

Public data infrastructures
, 17

Public health
, 135

Public institutions
, 150

Public-private partnership (PPP)
, 189–190

PwC
, 128–129

Quality of life conflicts
, 32, 34

Quantum computers
, 69

Quick digitalization
, 126

Recycled materials market
, 88

Regional technological conflicts
, 174

Regional technological inequalities
, 174

Regression equation
, 11

Remote learning
, 44

Renovation
, 69

Research and development (R&D)
, 140, 143

RFID
, 23, 177

technologies in business
, 176

Robotics
, 41

Robotization
, 53

Robots
, 109, 122

Robust technological systems
, 149

Russia’s regions
, 174

conflict theory
, 34

literature review
, 28–29

methodology
, 29–30

results
, 30–34

technological conflicts in regional economy
, 27

Russian companies, technology in
, 21–24

Russian Federation
, 175

Russian Regional Economy
, 176

digitalization index of
, 176

use of broadband internet and cloud service in
, 177

use of broadband internet in households in
, 178

use of ERP and RFID technologies and online sales
, 177

Russian technological space
, 174

Sales conflicts

acceleration of digital transformation
, 46

crises
, 38–39

digital support
, 46

materials and methods
, 39–44

results
, 44–46

Science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM)
, 109, 111–113

Science and technology (S&T)
, 109

Service delivery system
, 154–155

Service deprivation
, 53

Service model
, 124

Skilled labour force
, 136

Small and medium enterprises (SMEs)
, 72, 100

Small enterprises
, 136

‘Smart houses’
, 53

Smart machines
, 127–128

Social Business Group LLC (SBG)
, 187

Social cohesion development
, 100

Social conflict
, 20–21

Social contradictions
, 53

‘Social credit’
, 85

Social deprivation
, 62

Social entrepreneurship

essence of
, 160

problem of
, 160

Social entrepreneurship
, 135

Social inequality
, 192

Social innovation
, 135–136, 155

Social modernization
, 69, 71

Socially oriented market digital economy

classification of indicators of technological inequality
, 166

features of DESI Index in Different Countries for 2020
, 168

literature review
, 160–162

methods
, 162–165

number of social network users around world as of period 2018–2019
, 165

results
, 166–167

trade turnover dynamics in B2C Sphere for 2016–2020
, 163

turnover dynamics in B2C Sphere for 2016–2020
, 163

Socially responsible corporate activities
, 107

Socio-economic commotions
, 39

Socio-economic development
, 49, 174–175

Socio-economic discrimination
, 2

Socio-institutional innovations
, 150

Socio-technical system
, 150

‘Soft’ skills
, 136

Software
, 17

Solid-state drives (SSD)
, 89

Special economic zones
, 189

Standards ensure rights
, 71

State regional governance
, 174

State regulation of technological inequality
, 177

Stationary broadband Internet
, 176

Statista portal
, 162

Statistical organizations
, 3

Steam engines
, 138

Stigmatization
, 68

Subsidies
, 176

Substantial social transformations
, 94

Supplementary materials
, 30

Sustainability of digital development
, 85

Sustainable development
, 1, 82

Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)
, 87

System-based conflict
, 21

Systematization
, 20

Tax revenues
, 125

Technical regulation
, 17

‘Techno-economic paradigms’
, 150

Technological changes
, 71–72

Technological competition
, 107

Technological conflicts
, 2, 98

Technological deprivation
, 20

Technological development
, 16, 41, 175

Technological discrimination of employees

digital economy
, 68–69

materials and method
, 69–75

results
, 76–78

Technological divide
, 160

Technological inequality
, 1, 3, 8, 16, 150, 161, 179, 184, 188–189, 192

broadband internet subscribers by selected regions of Russian federation in 2020
, 175

business conflicts in digital competition of enterprises as scientific concept
, 20–21

conflict management of
, 179

conflict theory
, 24

conflicts
, 174

difference of technology in Russian companies
, 21–24

digital development in different countries
, 16–17

digitalization index of Russian Regional Economy
, 176

literature review
, 9, 19

materials and method
, 9–10, 174–176

methodology
, 17–19

results
, 10–12, 20, 176–180

in Russian regional economy
, 176–177

scale of
, 176

state regulation of
, 177

technological inequality in Russian Regional Economy
, 178

use of broadband internet and cloud service in Russian Regional Economy
, 177

use of broadband internet in households in Russian Regional Economy
, 178

use of ERP and RFID technologies and online sales in Russian Regional Economy
, 177

Technological innovations
, 135, 150

Technological isolation
, 21

Technological leap
, 53

materials and method
, 53–58

results
, 58–64

Technological modernization
, 69–70

Technological nationalism
, 98–99

Technological revolution
, 188

‘Technological systems and institutions’
, 150

Technological wars
, 69

Technology/technologies
, 28, 39, 96, 179

literature review
, 28–29

methodology
, 29–30

parks
, 189

results
, 30–34

Telecommunication services
, 143, 175

Tencent
, 56, 185

Theory of modernization
, 54

3D print
, 41

Trade war
, 97–98

Traditional economic inequality
, 2

Traditional social inequality
, 2

Transformation of societies
, 54

Uber
, 57, 162

UberEats
, 138

Uncertainty
, 188

Underdeveloped countries
, 2, 8, 10–11

‘Underdevelopment whirlpools’
, 29–30

United States, technological inequality in
, 96

Urbanistic system
, 96

Urbanization
, 96

US-China trade war
, 98

‘Value co-creation processes’
, 161

Value conflicts
, 62

Variation analysis
, 17, 29, 176

Virtual assistants
, 53

Virtual environment
, 58

labour relations in
, 124

Volume
, 56

Wave of algorithms
, 123

Wave of augmentation
, 123

Wave of autonomy
, 123

Wealth
, 179

WhatsApp
, 137, 161

Women in Work Index (WWI)
, 129

World Bank
, 3, 72

World Economic Forum (WEF)
, 3, 109, 148, 154

World economy
, 7, 9–11

Young Workers Index (YWI)
, 129

Zoom (online communication platform)
, 57

Prelims
Introduction: Technological Inequality as a Source of Conflicts in Digital Development and the Advantages of the Economic and Legal Approach to their Resolution
Chapter 1: Technological Inequality as a New Form of Economic Systems’ Differentiation in the Conditions of Digital Development: The Economic and Political Conflict of Modern Time
Chapter 2: Unequal Distribution of Technologies in Entrepreneurship: Business Conflicts in Digital Competition and Opportunities for Conflict Management
Chapter 3: Technologies as the Key Resources of Modern Regions: Digital Inequality and Solutions for Technological Conflicts in the Regional Economy
Chapter 4: Technological Discrimination of Consumers of Goods Under the Conditions of Digital Development: The Essence of Sales Conflict, Its Manifestations, and Perspectives of Overcoming
Chapter 5: Technological Leap Amid the Covid-19 Pandemic and in the Post-Pandemic Period: Digital Deprivation of Services, Social Contradictions and Conflict Management
Chapter 6: Technological Discrimination of Employees Amid the Covid-19 Pandemic and in the Post-Pandemic Period: Labour Conflicts of Express Digitalization and their Solutions
Chapter 7: Conflicts of Digital Development’s Sustainability and Resolving them Through the Balance of Social, Ecological and Economic Interests During Technological Progress
Chapter 8: Monitoring of Technological Inequality in the Modern World Economy: Assessing the Scale of the Global Conflict and Scenarios for its Development Depending on Conflict Management
Chapter 9: Gender Conflict as a Factor of Global Technological Inequality: Modelling and Conflict Management Through the Analysis of Women’s Participation in Science
Chapter 10: Modelling of Conflict in the Labour Market Under the Conditions of Automatization Based on Robots, Big Data and AI: The Specifics of Technological Inequality of Countries and Conflict Management
Chapter 11: Conflict of Traditions and Innovations as a Source of Global Technological Inequality: Social Consequences of the Innovative Development of the Economy and the Basics of Conflict Management
Chapter 12: Technological Inequality as a Barrier to ‘Markets of Tomorrow’: The Conflict of International Trade and the Promising Directions of Conflict Management
Chapter 13: Technological Inequality as a Barrier to Developing a Socially Oriented Market Digital Economy: International Experience and Conflict Management Through the Development of Social Entrepreneurship
Chapter 14: Technological Inequality at the Level of the Regional Economy and the Economic and Legal Approach to Conflict Management in the Field of Digital Development: A Case Study on the Example of Russian Regions
Chapter 15: Integration Mechanisms as Sources of Overcoming Technological Inequality and Overcoming the Conflict of Business Interests in the Digital Economy: Clusters, Special Economic Zones, Technology Parks and PPP
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