Technological Change, Adjustment Mechanisms, and the Community. A Research Design

摘要

This report contains guidelines for investigating the relationships among technological change in the firm, impacts of technological change on workers, adjustment mechanisms designed to alleviate negative impacts, effects of technological change on the community in which it has occurred, and how adjustment mechanisms to technological change might moderate or alter the effects of technological change on the community. Two topics are presented: a theoretical framework outlining the relationships, and a research design for measuring the ways in which adjustment mechanisms may modify the impacts of technological change on the community. (ERA citation 04:023423)