• DocumentCode
    1696937
  • Title

    The Isomorphic Development of Insurance

  • Author

    Lai, Kuei-Kuei ; Weng, Calvin S.

  • Author_Institution
    Nat. Yunlin Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Yunlin
  • fYear
    2007
  • Firstpage
    1564
  • Lastpage
    1570
  • Abstract
    In insurance industry, difference companies come to share similar technological bases of process. They not only share the same financial knowledge, but also utilize similar actuarial techniques to design products and assess insurable risks. This paper proposed an approach to look at the phenomenon of isomorphism of technological development in insurance. The result of this research also found the technological isomorphism in insurance already occurs. The contribution of this paper is to introduce the social network analysis into patent citations to foresee the technological development.
  • Keywords
    electronic commerce; financial management; technology management; financial knowledge; insurance industry; insurance isomorphic development; patent citations; social network analysis; technological development; technological isomorphism; Citation analysis; Companies; Costs; Data processing; Economic indicators; Insurance; Intellectual property; Product design; Social implications of technology; Social network services;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Management of Engineering and Technology, Portland International Center for
  • Conference_Location
    Portland, OR
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-8908-4315-1
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-8908-4315-1
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/PICMET.2007.4349480
  • Filename
    4349480