This book explores how digitalization and digital technologies influence markets, firms, financial institutions and organizations. Drawing on examples from Canada, Poland, France, Albania, Africa and Turkey this book takes a truly international perspective. It explores the technical aspects of digitalization, with chapters examining topics like how digitization creates value in a small company, how digital-driven business drives innovation, how import-exporting firms can increase productivity within the digital economy and how financial systems and institutions evolve due to new technologies. However, the book goes beyond this and, by adopting a holistic view, examines the social impact of digitalization, with the authors discussing how trade unions and employers present Industry 4.0 to employees and the general public. This book will be of interest to anyone studying digital innovation, digital management, digital strategy, Fin Tech, firm management, and Industry 4.0.

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1. Introduction: Digitalization as a Driver of the Contemporary Economy

2. Digital Transformation: An Analysis of the Role of Technology Service Providers in Montreal's Emerging AI Business Program
3. Digitalization and the Process of Creating and Appropriating Value by Small Companies - The Network Approach
4. Digital-Driven Business Model Innovation: the Role of Data in Changing Companies' Value Logic
5. Economic Structure, Globalization, Governance, and Digitalization: Global Evidence from Digital-Intensive ICT Trade
6. The Digitalization of Contracts in International Trade and Finance: Comparative Law Perspectives on Smart Contracts
7. Industry 4.0 in the Messages Publishes by Employers and Trade Unions in France, Germany, Poland, and the United Kingdom
8. The Impact of Digitalization on Human Capital Skills and Talent Flows in the Financial Industry: A Graph Theory Approach
9. East Asia and East Africa: Different Ways to Digitalize Payments
10. Digitalizationand the Transition to a Cashless Economy
11. Identifying the Financial Drivers of Bitcoin Price in Times of Economic and Policy Uncertainty: A Threshold Analysis.