%0 Journal Article %1 Bornschier:2001 %A Bornschier, Volker %D 2001 %J Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie %K change data growth impact innovation internet technology trust %N 2 %P 233--257 %T Generalized Trust and Early Internet Usage in Cross-National Comparison %V 53 %X Does generalized trust merely foster economic growth as empirically demonstrated in recent research? Or does this cultural resource also facilitate technological change on which future economic growth will rest? We argue that this is likely. In order to empirically clarify this issue we take the recently used indicator for generalized trust and tolerance as a predictor for the remarkable country differences in Internet diffusion (1997 and 1999). In a full sample of 34 and a sub-sample of 21 rich countries we find statistically solid effects which for rich countries are furthermore quite substantial. The effects hold also after controlling for average material wealth, early proliferation of tertiary education, quality of general education and density of scientist and engineers in research and development. Our findings also suggest to enrich the socially under-specified models of discontinuous technological change in order to better account for the differences in early adoption of innovations.

@article{Bornschier:2001, abstract = {Does generalized trust merely foster economic growth as empirically demonstrated in recent research? Or does this cultural resource also facilitate technological change on which future economic growth will rest? We argue that this is likely. In order to empirically clarify this issue we take the recently used indicator for generalized trust and tolerance as a predictor for the remarkable country differences in Internet diffusion (1997 and 1999). In a full sample of 34 and a sub-sample of 21 rich countries we find statistically solid effects which for rich countries are furthermore quite substantial. The effects hold also after controlling for average material wealth, early proliferation of tertiary education, quality of general education and density of scientist and engineers in research and development. Our findings also suggest to enrich the socially under-specified models of discontinuous technological change in order to better account for the differences in early adoption of innovations.}, added-at = {2010-03-02T17:25:53.000+0100}, author = {Bornschier, Volker}, bdsk-url-1 = {http://www.springerlink.com/content/95372213861387t6/?p=29274e23fc0b456492726c4a7d7005b5&pi=1}, bdsk-url-2 = {http://www.uni-koeln.de/kzfss/archiv00-02/ks012abs.htm#vertrauen}, bdsk-url-3 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11577-001-0038-x}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2969b77ec364cc83c2f38deb4b501620c/jrennstich}, date-modified = {2010-02-28 21:13:33 -0500}, interhash = {990560dc9a8a6ba0ffb62c3b44d88b9b}, intrahash = {969b77ec364cc83c2f38deb4b501620c}, journal = {K{\"o}lner Zeitschrift f{\"u}r Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie}, keywords = {change data growth impact innovation internet technology trust}, language = {Deutsch}, month = Jun, number = 2, pages = {233--257}, timestamp = {2010-03-07T08:45:55.000+0100}, title = {Generalized Trust and Early Internet Usage in Cross-National Comparison}, volume = 53, year = 2001 }