Digital Transformations Programme
Understanding information and communications technologies.
The Digital Transformations Programme is a four-year inter-disciplinary £1.1 Million research project funded by the Leverhulme Trust. The Programme was launched in the summer of 2002 and its goal is to understand the social and economic impact of information and communication technology at the macro-economic, the industry, and the firm level of analysis. The principal investigators are Assistant Professor Michael G. Jacobides (Strategy), Assistant Professor Jean Imbs (Economics), Associate Professor Fernando Suarez (Boston University) and Professor Leonard Waverman (Economics), who is the Programme Director. The programme's objective is to generate cutting-edge research that can affect business practice and policy alike.
The Digital Transformations Programme is funded by the Leverhulme Trust. The Leverhulme Trust was established in 1925 under the Will of the first Lord Leverhulme William Hesketh Lever - the entrepreneur and philanthropist who established Lever Brothers in the late nineteenth century. The Trust provides some £25 million pounds each year to promote research of originality and significance principally in the university sector across a full span of disciplines.
Programme objectives
The Digital Transformations Programme is comprised of five main themes:
- Digital Divide in the spread of ICT
- Digitization
- Growth and productivity
- Industry-level impact of ICTs
- Firm-level impact of ICTs and public policy issues.
Programme team
The Digital Transformations team is drawn from three departments at London Business School: Economics, Strategy and International Management, and Operations and Technology Management.
Publications
The Digital Transformation Programme has a growing library of working papers which are freely available to download here.
Events
The Digital Transformations Programme has sponsored a number of conferences and workshops. The conference programmes, papers and presentations are included here.
Contact Us
For further information, please contact the Digital Transformations Programme assistant, Virginia Acha (v.acha@imperial.ac.uk)
