1. Strategic Restructuring Framework
Comparative Case Study

2. Strategic Restructuring Model
Dependent variable: technology diffusion (TD)
Independent variables:
Structures (social, political, economic)
Institutions (orgs & persistent patterns of roles and incentives)
Politics (esp. elite individuals’ strategic behaviors)
Govt. Policies (a mix of 4 policy balances: priv-pub initiative, competition-monopoly, foreign-domestic, centralized-decentralized)

3. Key tenets of SRS
The info revolution is more institutional & political than technical
Economic structures explain about 2/3 of TD
Institutional differences affect incentives for TD & political discourse around TD
Strategic decisions/actions by elite individuals & groups are driven by mixed motives and shape TD
Govt policy balances are intervening variables in TD, between structure & institutions and TD as enacted by ICT users

4. Characteristics of Institutions in LDCs
Top-heavy in power
Patrimonial: patron-client ties are key
Over-staffed with underskilled, underexperienced people

5. Interinstitutional features in LDCs
Limited contact/relations with customers/clients
Risk-averse behavior
Susceptibility to external pressures for employment & contracts

6. Interinstitutional Dynamics & TD
Interactive effects among clusters of institutions are determinative in TD
Institutional responses to TD reflect earlier decisions, but are not entirely predictable or inevitable
An unpredictable threshold effect seems to occur as institutions mature & interact, e.g. at WSIS

7. Elite Individuals’ Motives (p. 81-82)
Meet their orgs’ goals & responsibilities
Promote & advance the use of ICTs
Preserve & extend their current authority & positions
Protect the interests & authority of the current regime in power Protect the nation from foreign threats
Delay or block TD that threatens to empower their political opposition
Advance interests of country through TD
Advance own interest by positioning themselves to influence future TD
Battle state control to achieve wider TD
Refrain from overly antagonizing the current regime

8. Comparative Case Analysis
Few cases/Many facets: Indepth study
Captures complex, often contradictory dynamics
Costly & time-consuming
Allows framework to be generalized, but not necessarily findings

9. Group discussion Observations from each country
Structures
Institutions
Politics
Govt. Policy Balances
Comparisons across the 3 countries