Snarl-Up in Digitalization – How the Uniqueness of ICT Industries Emerges with Socially Constraints

This paper provides a perspective of how and why digitalization has been stacked in today's marketing times. The aim of this paper is to solve and clear the industrial structure and historical aspects of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) industries, and to investigate the scale and scope of newly-created industries/firms such as ICT industries using the method of business history and quantitative approach. As a result, three implications have been drawn; that is, (1) technological development for internet has the behavior of social construction of technology, (2) and that the goods traded within the ICT industries has a preference that is highly motivated by social constraints, (3) hence, the depth and boundary of digitalization would be different in each firm, sector, industry, country and regions. This suggests that the policy and principle of digitalization should be different under its own historical path and backgrounds.